[Twisted-web] Nevow Templating question

[Stephen Thorne]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:43:09AM -0400, jonathan vanasco wrote:
> 
> This works, but I think the approach might be wrong.
> (the output is what I want it to be, but I think I may have implemented 
> things counter to the way nevow was designed)
> 
> Can someone please offer their input?

Sure, see comments inline with code. Please bear in mind I haven't
executed this code, I'm just making it up ;)

> template.html
> -------------------
> <tr>
> 	<td valign="top"> pick a city</td>
> 	<td>
> 		<select name="city">
> 		<span nevow:data="citiesList" nevow:render="city"></span>
> 		</select>
        <select name="city" nevow:data="citiesList" nevow:render="city" />
> 	</td>
> </tr>
> 
> 
> testing.py
> -------------------
> 	def data_citiesList(self, context, data):
> 		return {"New York":'1', "Los Angeles":'2'}
> 	def render_city(self, context, data):
> 		"""Example of using stan to render a page.
> 		"""
> 		return rend.stan(
> 			[
> 				T.option(value=v)[k] for (k,v) in 
> 				data.items()
> 			]
> 		)

        return context.tag[
            [ T.option(value=v)[k] for (k,v) in data.items() ]
        ]
> 
> Output.html
> ----------------
> <tr>
> 	<td valign="top"> pick a city</td>
> 	<td>
> 		<select name="city">
> 			<option value=1>New York</option>
> 			<option value=2>Los Angeles</option>
> 		</select>
> 	</td>
> </tr>

Regards,
Stephen Thorne