[Zope] "dtml-in" question

[Ed Leafe]

On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 09:58  AM, Thierry Florac wrote:

>>> Is there any way to achieve this, without writing a custom method ??
>>
>> <dtml-in objectValues()>
>>     <dtml-if visible>
>>     ...
>>     </dtml-if>
>> </dtml-in>
>
> The problems when handling "dtml-in" in such a way are that :
>  - you can't handle "sequence-start" or "sequence-end" correctly, when
> the first or last elements are not visible ;
>  - you can't handle "dtml-else" correctly, when all the elements are 
> not
> visible...

	Yes, that's true. So why the resistance to writing a simple script to 
do what you want? Any time I find myself taking more than a few seconds 
to think about how to do something in straight DTML or ZPT, it always 
turns out that I could simplify things greatly with a script.

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