[Zope] selected in select lists

[Chris Withers]

Garry Saddington wrote:
> This code does not work;-).

That, in itself, as an argument for using ZPT. The reason it doesn't 
work is probably because of some subtlety in name lookup of your DTML 
method.

Showing DTML to other people, say, on a mailing list, is much harder to 
grok than a ZPT, where at least you can be asked "what is context in 
this scenario? container? etc".

Tino also hit the nail on the head: if your ZPT seems complexm you're 
trying to do too much in your presentation layer. Since all DTML is butt 
ugly and overly complex, you don't get much help with this ;-)

> If I always work in the ZMI and do not 
> collaborate with designers on database web applications where the data
> is more important than the presentation, can you give me a good reason 
> for not using DTML. 

Wow, only a true DTML user could come up with a sentence that convoluted ;-)

> the namespace magic thing it is not that bad. The ZPT code above seems 
> to me more complex and it has defined two new variables, 

Explicit is better than implicit. Try explaining what <dtml 
sequence-item> means to me, and why it should work ;-)

cheers,

Chris

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