[Zope] chapter 5 Zope book - problems with the examples

Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:40:30 +0000

Hi,

I'm going through the examples in Chapter 5 of the Zope book and am
having some problems. For those of you familiar with it, it is the 'Zope
Zoo' example.

Can anyone help me out?

1 - I create a DTML method called navigation as follows:

<ul>
<dtml-in expr="objectValues('Folder')">
  <li><a href="&dtml-absolute_url;"><dtml-var title_or_id></a><br></li>
</dtml-in>
</ul>

2 - On viewing this method it works fine - a hyperlink to all
sub-folders appears in the browser.

3 - I add '<dtml-var navigation>' into my standard_html_header so it
reads:

<html>
<head>
<title>ZAPHOD - zopetastic!</title>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" LINK="#000099" VLINK="#555555">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">
If your name is Lee then click <a href="manage">here</a> to
login.</font> 
<br>
<dtml-var navigation>

4 - On viewing index.html (containing header & footer) everything except
the navigation method appears. Viewing the source of index.html reveals
that the <ul> tags are created... just no <li> elements.

5 - The HTML is fine... all tags closed & in te right place.

Can anyone see a problem?

Thanks in advance for any replies. My appologies also for such a long
post.

- Best regards,
Lee Reilly