[Zope] Dicts in folder attributes

[Pavlos Christoforou]

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Anthony Baxter wrote:

or even the XMLConfig product if you wish to have the dictionary mapped
onto an external file.

Pavlos
> 
> I think you'll find that TinyTable (from the contrib area of the
> zope site) will do what you want.
> 
> Anthony
> 
> > Paul told me how to extract a list of column names from a returned SQL
> > result. Now I need my DTML document to have ready access to a dict
> > mapping the potential names to human-readable names, so that whichever
> > columns show up in my result, the DTML knows how to display it.
> > 
> > Basically where my table could contain column names like 'DOB' I want to
> > display 'Date of Birth', but without actually knowing whether 'DOB' is
> > present in the output prior to rendering the page. 
> > 
> > Therefore I want to make a dict like {'DOB':'Date of
> > Birth','SSN':'Social Security Number',...}. But since this is not really
> > data that is solely relevant to that single DTML document, I would
> > rather not have to specify it by an ugly <!--#with
> > "_.namespace(trans_table={'DOB'...}-->. 
> > 
> > Is making an External Method class and assigning the results to map to
> > that class my only option? I would prefer a folder attribute, because an
> > External Method requires me to go back to the filesystem to change it;
> > but folder attributes don't seem to have dict as an option. 
> > 
> > Any ideas would be appreciated. [Note: this would be much easier if
> > there was a non-containing version of 'with'. Something that edited the
> > actual namespace, instead of making an altered namespace available to
> > its contents. It would be much easier to pull in sets of variable
> > references from other DTML documents.]
> > 
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