Re: [Zope] Building a list programmatically under DTML

Timothy Grant wrote:

Also, I should pass along that the list is passed to the form using the following html snippet

<input type="hidden" name="desc:list" value="<dtml-var desc>">

Aha! The hidden clue! This doesn't do what you expect. It creates a list containing a single item: the string representation '[...,...,...]' of desc. You want either <dtml-in desc> <input type="hidden" name="desc:list" value="&sequence-item;"> </dtml-in> or <input type="hidden" name="desc:lines" value="<dtml-var "_.string.join(desc, '\n')">"> if desc items are guaranteed not to contain newlines, or <input type="hidden" name="desc:tokens" value="<dtml-var "_.string.join(desc)">"> if desc items are guaranteed not to contain any whitespace.