[Zope] Building multiple documents from fragments(objects).

[Andy McKay]

You can use <dtml-in > to iterate over a list, have a look in the docs. 

So you could do:

<dtml-in "[1,2,3]">
<dtml-var sequence-item>
</dtml-in>

Or if you have some way of differentiating fragment from other stuff:

<dtml-in stuff>
...
</dtml-in>

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Young" <alany@idiglobal.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 9:23 AM
Subject: [Zope] Building multiple documents from fragments(objects).


> Hello All,
> 
> I have some newbie questions.
> 
> I'm an experienced perl programmer trying to learn Zope/Python and am
> trying to do something I know must be possible, but am having a hard
> time wrapping my brain around this new way of doing things.
> 
> I have a bunch of document fragments with the following structure:
> 
> /docs
>     fragment1
>     fragment2
>     fragment3
>     ...
>     doc1/
>         index_html
>     doc2/
>         index_html
> 
> Currently, doc1/index_html and doc2/index_html have the following
> structure:
> 
> <dtml-var standard_html_header>
> <h1><dtml-var title_or_id></h1>
> 
> <div><h3>fragment1 title</h3>
>  <ul>
>   <li><dtml-var fragment1></li>
>  </ul>
> </div>
> 
> <div><h3>fragment2 title</h3>
>  <ul>
>   <li><dtml-var fragment2></li>
>  </ul>
> </div>
> 
> <div><h3>fragment3 title</h3>
>  <ul>
>   <li><dtml-var fragment3></li>
>  </ul>
> </div>
> 
> ...
> 
> Is there a way that I can do something like this (warning: It's a clunky
> mix of perl and dtml):
> 
> for my $f ( qw( fragment1 fragment2 fragment3 ) ) {
>     <div><h3><dtml-var $f-title</h3>
>         <ul>
>             <li><dtml-var $f></li>
>         </ul>
>     </div>
> }
> 
> I would prefer to do this entirely in dtml if at all possible (I need to
> show non-programmers how to do this if I can make it work and they don't
> wanna know about Python or Perl stuff).
> 
> Failing that, is there a way I can do this generically enough that a
> designer could just use a dtml tag and pass the necessary values?
> 
> Thanks for your input.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
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