[Zope] avoiding nested DTMLs

[Casey Duncan]

Timothy Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how to do something here while avoiding nested dtml
> tags. Here's what I've got:
> 
> I have a TinyTable containing two fields: "name" and "status". I have a DTML
> Document in the same folder as the TinyTable for each "name" in the
> TinyTable. I want to display that DTML Document based on the value of
> "status" in the TinyTable.
> 
> Here's some code:
> <dtml-in testTable>
>  <dtml-if "status <> ''">
>   <p><<< insert DTML Document here >>></p>
>  </dtml-if>
> </dtml-in>
> 
> So in the code above I want to insert <dtml-var spam_html> (which is a DTML
> Document in the current folder), for example, if the TinyTable contains a
> line that looks like:
> 
> "spam_html", "X"
> 
> I hope I'm making myself clear. Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> -Tim
> 

Possibly this (untested):

<dtml-in testTable>
    <dtml-if status>
        <p><dtml-var expr="_[status]"></p>
    </dtml-if>
</dtml-in>

I don't see any way to safely avoid nesting the dtml-if tag, if status
might be empty. This is not anything I would consider a problem though.

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