[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.5 Edition)/Using Zope Page Templates

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    The 'tal:repeat' statement on the table row means "repeat this row
    for each item in my container's list of object values".  The
    repeat statement puts the objects from the list into the 'item'
    variable one at a time (this is called the *repeat variable*), and
    makes a copy of the row using that variable.  The value of
    "item/getId" in each row is the Id of the object for that row, and
    likewise with "item/meta_type" and "item/title".

      % Anonymous User - Sep. 22, 2002 6:02 am:
       TAL processing replaces text with text. So we dont have table rows, we have TR tags in the source. For each
       object in the list the whole text "<tr ... /tr>" is first repeated(copied), then processed (using the current
       object in the list) yielding the target text.