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Hi,

I have to understand how renderers, slots and patterns work. I try to read examples and tutorials, but doubts remain: above all I'm a newbye.

Suppose I have an item such that (values to be rendered are uppercased):

<li> <input type="text" value="INPUT_VALUE"/>

<select name="foo"> ... <option>OPTION_VALUES</option> ... </select>

<textarea name="bar">TEXT_VALUE</textarea> </li>

Now, this item has to be repeated N times. To do that, I have a python list, each element such that:

{ 'INPUT_VALUE: 'foo', 'OPTION_VALUES': ['a', 'list', 'of', 'strings'], 'TEXT_VALUE': "bar" }

ie a list of dicts.

It would be nice to use nevow:data="my_list", nevow:render="mapping" and nevow:slots. Maybe this is the wrong way, because I cannot find how. The questions:

1- If with

<textarea nome="bar"> <nevow:slot name="TEXT_VALUE"/> </textarea>

I can correctly fill the textarea, how can I correctly fill the INPUT_VALUE? It is inside the input tag options, not inside the input tag contents.

2- What about the OPTION_VALUES? Is it possible to "subpattern" a pattern? If yes, how?

Finally, I'm wondering if this is the correct way to render such item or if a better, more elegant, solution, exists.

thanks br

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