[albatross-users] displaying two-dimensional arrays of data

[Eric S. Johansson]

I am a (very) new user of albatross and so far I'm reasonably impressed.  I'm 
quite the curmudgeon when it comes to tools like albatross and I've rejected 
most of them because they were either too primitive or too heavy.

"I'm rewriting the camram (antispam) Web interface using albatross because at 3 
CGI's, I was %s in some %s duplication and % of HTML and print statements." 
%("engaged", "horrible", "messes")

albatross looked like a good tool so, I'm giving it a whirl and rewriting the 
first interface.  Unfortunately, I've hit a cognitive snag on one of the first 
difficult points.

First question is if I'm displaying a two-dimensional array of data and input 
mechanisms, is there any "official" way of doing this.  I've built a list of a 
list and within the template, use a <al-for> loop to pull elements of of the 
parent list and then decompose the element into its component pieces using 
simple indexing (i.e. <al-value expr="line.value()[2]">.  This technique seems 
rather awkward but I'm trying to make it work the best I can.

Second question is on the addition of JavaScript and style sheet elements to 
HTML tags.  Specifically, I need to create a check box that looks like (and yes, 
I do use the value and name):

<input type="checkbox" name="cbbc7b1bd5ae6cfd29" value="bc7b1bd5ae6cfd29" 
onclick="CCA(this,'mystery');DownReset();" >

I am comfortable with mungohacking html if need be, I just need to know if I 
need to.

--- eric