Zope/DTML Infuriating...

[William Heymann]

On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Jens wrote:
> Hello Everyone.
>

> <dtml-let prefix="'main'">
> <ul>
> <dtml-in expr="_.range(1,10)">
>   <li><dtml-var expr="_['prefix'] + _['sequence-item']"></li>
> </dtml-in>
> </ul>
> </dtml-let>
>


I think you are going to really regret doing things this way, it is only going 
to make your life much harder regardless of if you are using zpt or dtml by 
doing stuff like this inside the template. The most correct way in zope to do 
this is to use a python script object and have the dtml call that.

For example your python script would have

return ['main%s' % i for i in range(1,10)]

and your dtml would have

<ul>
<dtml-in path.to.you.script()>
     <li><dtml-var sequence-item></li>
</ul>


This leads to much cleaner and easier to maintain systems.