-----Original Message----- From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter@handshake.de] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 8:11 AM To: Jay, Dylan Cc: 'zope@zope.org' Subject: Re: [Zope] (no subject)

Jay, Dylan writes:

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Here's a feature I just submitted to the collector.

It seems to me that a few tweaks to the dtml-if syntax would be beneficial something like the following would certainly clean up some of the logic I end up writing.

<dtml-if X> <a href="a_url"> <dtml-always> link text <dtml-else> (no link currently available) <dtml-then> </a> </dtml-if>

What do people think? I've not implemented it but I wouldn't imagine its very hard. I am not in favor. It is only slightly shorter/more readable than the standard solution but requires two additional keywords.

In standard Zope, your example reads:

<dtml-if X> <a href="a_url"> </dtml-if> link text <dtml-if X> </a> <dtml-else> (no link available) </dtml-if>

Perhaps another example will prove its uglyness. <dtml-if "REQUEST.has_key('some_value') and this().has_key(some_value) and _[some_value] == 'a property value' and AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role('Manager')"> <a href="a_url"> </dtml-if> link text <dtml-if "REQUEST.has_key('some_value') and this().has_key(some_value) and _[some_value] == 'a property value' and AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role('Manager')"> </a> <dtml-else> (no link available) </dtml-if> or <dtml-if "REQUEST.has_key('some_value') and this().has_key(some_value) and _[some_value] == 'a property value' and AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role('Manager')"> <a href="a_url"> <dtml-always> link text <dtml-else> (no link currently available) <dtml-then> </a> </dtml-if> Now which looks cleaner?