[Zope] Advanced DTML Question

[James W. Howe]

At 04:01 PM 3/1/00 -0600, Evan Simpson wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: James W. Howe <jwh@allencreek.com>
> > of my dtml-in loop which gets the first letter from the current entry,
> > checks to see if an anchor for that letter has been written, if not, a new
> > anchor tag is inserted into the stream.  My problem is I don't really know
>
>Quick, possibly misleading idea:  if you can give your Catalog entries a
>brain class with a function "anchorGroup" which returns the first letter of
>the entry, then you can use <dtml-if sequence-first-anchorGroup><a
>name="&dtml-anchorGroup;"></a></dtml-if>

"Brain Class?"  Could you explain that a bit?  It so happens that the 
objects I'm getting out of my catalog are instances of a ZClass that I 
created.  That ZClass inherits from a basically empty Python base 
class.  Is this what you mean by a "brain class"?  If so, are you saying 
that I should just define a method in my Python code which does the 
"anchorGroup" thing?

Even if this isn't what you meant, I think I like the idea that you are 
proposing.  I just need to make sure that I actually understand what you 
are suggesting.

Thanks.

James W. Howe				mailto:jwh@allencreek.com
Allen Creek Software, Inc.		pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html		
Ann Arbor, MI  48103