[Zope] Clever solution wanted

[Tille, Andreas]

Hello,

I have the following problem:  The web pages of our institute has a
menu frame (please don't throw anything at me about the frames - I do not
like it but now I have to cope with it) with links.  Those links have
the following structure:

    <a href="URL1"> target="target-frame1">text1</a><p>
    <a href="URL2"> target="target-frame2">text2</a><p>
    <a href="URL3"> target="target-frame3">text3</a><p>
    ...

Because there are many different web editors they sometimes use
<br> instead of <p> or do some other nasty formating.  This is all
done in plain HTML and I slowly want to move the stuff to Zope.

I'd like like to provide a general dtml document which no editor has
to care about.  I'm now searching for a method where the different
editors of those menu links just have to care for the content like
editing a simple table:

     "URL1"     "target-frame1"    "test1"
     "URL2"     "target-frame2"    "test2"
     "URL3"     "target-frame3"    "test3"

This table should be read into the dtml document and should be
displayed there in a loop) to get equal layout.  In the end of the
mail I append my first approach to it but I feel that this is
really not the best way to go.

I'm looking for a more clever solution than I could imagine (as a
quite beginner in Zope).

Kind regards

        Andreas.

My own not so clever solution:


<dtml-comment>*** please use the following scheme for your links

              ('URL', 'target-frame', 'text'),

              *** Do not change any other things inside this document ***</dtml-comment>

<dtml-let
   links="(('http://www.zope.org',        '_top',     'Zope'),
           ('http://somewhere.else',      '_bottom',  'Other Link'),
           ...
           ('index.html',                 '_parent',  'Home'))">

<dtml-comment>****** Do not change anything below this line *****</dtml-comment>

<dtml-in links>

<dtml-comment>
<dtml-var "_['sequence-item'][0]">
</dtml-comment>

<p><a id="mainlink" href="<dtml-var "_['sequence-item'][0]">" target="<dtml-var "_['sequence-item'][1]">"><dtml-var "_['sequence-item'][2]"></a></p>
</dtml-in>
</dtml-let>