[Bese-devel] tal:dolist

[Waldo Rubinstein]

Your email awakened a couple of questions for me:

1) Where can I find more documentation on TAL? Is this only for UCW?  
I used TAL before with Zope (Python) framework. Is it the same?
2) I've seen postings using a different syntax for generating HTML  
code from within UCW (YACLML) instead of TAL. Which is the preferred  
or recommended method? Is there actually a productivity/performance/ 
reason for using one over the other?

Thanks,
Waldo

On Sep 22, 2005, at 5:07 PM, vlado tzankov wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new to UCW and I am doing some simple tests with it.
> I came to tal:dolist attribute.
>
> In a previous message in this mailing list I read the following  
> (which seems to be true):
>
> tal:dolist="(something)" - (SOMETHING) returns a list of tal  
> environment objects (which are themselves lists of alists, clos  
> objects or hash tables).
>
> I do not know the internals of the framework, but why the objects  
> themselves should be lists?
>
> For example I have 100 clos objects and I make a list of them - and  
> I pass this list to tal:dolist to handle. It complained that the  
> first object is not a list. After I made a list of 100 lists (every  
> inner list contained just a single element - the clos object),  
> everything worked.
>
> What is the idea behind this? (since I see it is done on purpose).
>
> Besides that - from what I have seen and tried till now - great work.
>
> BR
>     Vlado Tzankov
>
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