Hello All,
I do read HOW-TO's, User-Guides, etc., but I think DTML
must be made simpler, or better documentation, or more examples.
As an example, within an <dtml-in> loop:
1. You can print the values of sequence-items with:
(index=<dtml-var sequence-index>,
number=<dtml-var sequence-number>,
item=<dtml-var sequence-item>)
2. To test for equality, this does not:
<dtml-if "sequence-index == 0">
(<dtml-var count-adassnum> Records found)
</dtml-if>
3. While this does work:
<dtml-if "_['sequence-index'] == 0">
(<dtml-var count-adassnum> Records found)
</dtml-if>
I say this is confusing. Don't tell me to read the Namespace
How-to, or the Zope User Guides, I did, and it's still confusing!
Unless you find an example, that does exactly what you want, trying to
figure it out with the documentation available can be difficult. I
found my answer to this in the
"How-To: (How-to) access the field names and fields of any arbitrary
ZSQL query", but it took a lot of searching the
Zope site for references to 'dtml-in'. I get so frustrated with DTML, I
want to scream. Please don't tell me to buy the Zope book, DTML should
be more intuitive. DTML maybe the heart
of Zope, but it's also it's achilles heel.
-- irene
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