"Dr. Ross Lazarus" <rossl@med.usyd.edu.au>

<dtml-in "foo" sort=akey> is really handy as everyone knows.

I needed to sort on multiple fields for an application I have, so I hacked at lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_In.py so the following now appears to work

<dtml-in "foo" sort=akey1,akey2,akey3>

This is only VERY lightly tested which is why I'm posting it here. If anyone needs this, please try it - but NOT on a production server. Please let me know how you go. If it proves useable, I'd suggest it eventually might be worth considering for a future release since without this patch, if you need multiple keys you have to fake them in your data which is cruel..

I haven't even tried the mapping version code and I suspect that it's unlikely to work, but, in the spirit of opensource, for those of a self destructive urge and strong stomach, here's the diff.

This is highly experimental..PLEASE don't even think about using this unless you're willing to clean up any mess that results. All care, no responsibility.

Note that the patch will rename the original method to osort_sequence so you can easily revert to normal operation.

So that we don't lose track of this in the list traffic, could you please submit this to the Collector as a "Feature with Patch" (bugs/features with patches get priority treatment)? http://classic.zope.org:8080/Collector/Collector/developer_input Paste the patch into the "Description" field, along with the explanation. Thanks! Tres. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@digicool.com tseaver@palladion.com