Alan Young wrote:

Hello All,

I have some newbie questions.

I'm an experienced perl programmer trying to learn Zope/Python and am trying to do something I know must be possible, but am having a hard time wrapping my brain around this new way of doing things.

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Is there a way that I can do something like this (warning: It's a clunky mix of perl and dtml):

for my $f ( qw( fragment1 fragment2 fragment3 ) ) { <div><h3><dtml-var $f-title</h3> <ul> <li><dtml-var $f></li> </ul> </div> }

I would prefer to do this entirely in dtml if at all possible (I need to show non-programmers how to do this if I can make it work and they don't wanna know about Python or Perl stuff).

Failing that, is there a way I can do this generically enough that a designer could just use a dtml tag and pass the necessary values?

Thanks for your input.

Alan

Assuming they are DTML documents (if not, substitute your fragment object meta type) here is the DTML: <dtml-in expr="docs.objectValues('DTML Document')"> <div><h3><dtml-var name="title_or_id"></h3> <ul> <li><dtml-var name="sequence-item"></li> </ul> </div> </dtml-in> -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan@kaivo.com `------------------>

You can use <dtml-in > to iterate over a list, have a look in the docs. So you could do: <dtml-in "[1,2,3]"> <dtml-var sequence-item> </dtml-in> Or if you have some way of differentiating fragment from other stuff: <dtml-in stuff> ... </dtml-in> Cheers. -- Andy McKay. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Young" <alany@idiglobal.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 9:23 AM Subject: [Zope] Building multiple documents from fragments(objects).

Hello All,

I have some newbie questions.

I'm an experienced perl programmer trying to learn Zope/Python and am trying to do something I know must be possible, but am having a hard time wrapping my brain around this new way of doing things.

I have a bunch of document fragments with the following structure:

/docs fragment1 fragment2 fragment3 ... doc1/ index_html doc2/ index_html

Currently, doc1/index_html and doc2/index_html have the following structure:

<dtml-var standard_html_header> <h1><dtml-var title_or_id></h1>

<div><h3>fragment1 title</h3> <ul> <li><dtml-var fragment1></li> </ul> </div>

<div><h3>fragment2 title</h3> <ul> <li><dtml-var fragment2></li> </ul> </div>

<div><h3>fragment3 title</h3> <ul> <li><dtml-var fragment3></li> </ul> </div>

...

Is there a way that I can do something like this (warning: It's a clunky mix of perl and dtml):

for my $f ( qw( fragment1 fragment2 fragment3 ) ) { <div><h3><dtml-var $f-title</h3> <ul> <li><dtml-var $f></li> </ul> </div> }

I would prefer to do this entirely in dtml if at all possible (I need to show non-programmers how to do this if I can make it work and they don't wanna know about Python or Perl stuff).

Failing that, is there a way I can do this generically enough that a designer could just use a dtml tag and pass the necessary values?

Thanks for your input.

Alan

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