You are right - you don't want to do all that in the view. You should
be able to pass in your railway_list as an object to the template then
in your template show each item as {{railway_list.name}} or something
like that.
Dan wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I seem to be having a bit of a problem with separation of markup and
> code.
>
> I would like to output from 3 different models; railways, rail lines
> and stations a nested unordered list, so far i have got this to work:
>
> def view_transport(request):
> railway_list = Railway.objects.all()
> output = '<ul>'
> for rail in railway_list:
> output += '<li>'+rail.name+'</li><ul>'
> line_list = Line.objects.filter(railway=rail)
> for line in line_list:
> output += '<li>'+line.name+'</li><ul>'
> station_list =
> Station.objects.filter(line=line)
> for station in station_list:
> output += '<li>'+station.name+'</li>'
> output += '</ul>'
> output += '</ul>'
> output += '</ul>'
> return render_to_response('map/transport.html', {'var': output})
>
> This will output something like this:
>
> <ul><li>Tokyo Metro</li><ul><li>Ginza Line</li><ul><li>Shibuya</li></
> ul></ul><li>Japan Railway</li><ul></ul>
>
> This is fine for the output but I think there should be a better way
> to achieve this without having any markup in the view, i have seen the
> {{ var|unordered_list }} template tag but I do not have a clue how I
> would create a nested list in the view to pass to this template tag.
>
> I am a first time user of Python and Django, any help with this would
> be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
>
> -Dan
>
>
> >
>
>
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