[Petal] Mdifiers to create attributes and custom field types?

[William McKee]

Hi Justin,

It's been a long time since I've seen traffic on this list. As much as I 
love Petal, it just hasn't been successful in winning over mindshare 
from other toolkits for the projects we're using (e.g., WebGUI). At any 
rate, I'
>
> I'm wondering if either of two things are possible in Petal.
>
> 1) A modifier that can create a series of element attributes.  Ideally,
> something like:
>
> <tag tal:attributes='modifier --${some/hashref}' />
>
> Wherein modifier would return a data structure/string/something that 
> would
> allow it to make lots of attributes on tag.
>
> And,
>
> 2) Is it possible to write a modifier that can inject a tag type?  I 
> don't even
> know how I would write this to give an example, but I'd like to be 
> able to
> dynamically generate the tag name itself based on output from a 
> subtourine/data
> structure/whatever.
>
> Sometimes I'll want a <div, sometimes, I'll want a <span, sometimes, I 
> might
> want a <ul, who knows.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>


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