[ZPT] [Weakness] "tal:repeat" not yet right

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Mon, 01 Oct 2001 20:55:36 +0100


Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> like this is what they've been doing _anyway_. That is, there's almost always
> a:
> 
>   <div tal:define="loop_list some/expression">
>     <span tal:repeat="item loop_list"/>
>   </div>
> 
> or similar. I'm a little out of touch with their latest work, it seems.

Yeah, this is a nasty pattern and one which we often end up getting around
using:

<iterator tal:define="loop_list some/expression"
          tal:omit-tag="">

  <span tal:repeat="item loop_list"/>

</iterator>

Not very pretty :-S

Chris