[ZPT] Forms and Zcatalog

[Tim Fouracre]

>Well, I don't want to discourage you, and it's could certainly be a
>learning exercise if you have time.  One of the ZPT examples shows the
>basics of the ZTUtils Batch class, which you would need to use if you
>want to show your results the way the DTML does.

heh, i sat down on Monday and those examples really helped and i think i did 
most of it :) However i do have a couple of questions concerning the 
following bit of code:

   <tr tal:repeat="item container/zope/ZopeCatalog">
    <td tal:define="sequence python:container.zope.ZopeCatalog">
     <b tal:repeat="item sequence"></b>
     <a tal:attributes="href string:${here/message}?body=${item/body}"
         href="whats this?">
         <b tal:content="item/subject">Subject</b></a>
    </td>
   </tr>

The <a> tag is supposed to be a link to the "message" PT, passing the "body" 
variable also. However i cannot get it to work, i have tried all variantions 
with Doc and Template, but at least when i use "string" i see the "message" 
code in the status bar as a string when i hover over the link. What should 
it be?

and although the first 3 lines of the code do get the relative data out of 
the catalog and display it properly, it looks clunky to me. I mean the 
second time i use "tal:repeat" i don't think i should be repeating, as i 
should just be plucking out the one item i need, if that makes sense. But as 
i said it works for me at the moment.

TIA

Tim
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