[Zope] NewbieQ: Rendering DTML Documents

[Laurie Nason]

Welcome to the list Andy!

Your code seems to return only Folder objects - are you saying that you
would like to return the DTML Documents (either in their totality or just
their titles - you need another dtml-in statement inside the folder in
statement. I put in the dtml-let statement (it makes life easier than trying
to use sequence-item! as you will learn!) and then iterate over your
documents. If you want the title of the document then use the title
property, or if you want to render the whole document then use the
sequence-item tag.

<dtml-var standard_html_header>
    <ul>
        <dtml-in "objectValues(['Folder'])">
            <li><dtml-var title></li>
            <dtml-let item=sequence-item>
                <dtml-in "objectValues(['DTML Document'])">
                    Document Title:<dtml-var title><br>
or
                    Document Contents:<dtml-var sequence-item><br>
                </dtml-in>
            </dtml-let>
        </dtml-in>
    </ul>
<dtml-var standard_html_footer>

hth,

Laurie
<dtml-disclaimer>
I kind-of tested it!
</dtml-disclaimer>

-----Original Message-----
From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Andy
Jewell
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:23 AM
To: zope@zope.org
Subject: [Zope] NewbieQ: Rendering DTML Documents


Hi, all!  I also posted this to the ZopeNewbies.net discussion board before
I
realized there was a mailing list.  Sorry for the repeat.

What I'm trying to do is to create a web page that is comprised of sections
(Folders) and section contents (DTML Documents inside
the folders). So, for example, if these are my folders:

 * Chapter 1
 * Chapter 2

Then I would like the DTML Documents contained IN those folders to be
displayed. So, I made an index_html method in the
Chapter 1 folder that's something like this:

<dtml-var standard_html_header>
<ul>
<dtml-in "objectValues(['Folder'])">
<li><dtml-var title></li>
</dtml-in>
</ul>
<dtml-var standard_html_footer>

That works for giving me the TITLE of those documents, and there are plenty
of
examples of that in the Zope documentation. But I
want to include the WHOLE document - something like this:

<dtml-var standard_html_header>
<dtml-in "objectValues(['Folder'])">
<h2><dtml-var title></h2>
<dtml-var "theCurrentDocument()">
</dtml-in><

<dtml-var standard_html_footer>

So you can see I'm trying to get at what is probably the very simple $_ item
(in perl parlance). Is there a method for the current
document in the dtml-in loop that will render itself? Thanks so much for any
help!


Andy




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