getting further along with rewriting and rearranging the helma documentation at hopdev, i treated myself with another gift: the list macro.

if you take a look at the introduction to the section "image processing" you'll see a list of image functions at the bottom of the text.

this list was created by the macro call <% list filter="topic" name="Image Processing" itemprefix="<li>" itemsuffix="</li>" %>

it simply loops over the stories contained in the topic named "Image Processing" and displays their titles as links to themselves.

future applications of this macro could be lists of weblogs and users, too (that's why there is that filter parameter already).

there is just one question left: with the new extended content scheme i don't have a clue how i could sort this list by titles except if i put them into an array and do it in javascript...?

btw. i checked in these modifications as well as those made for the shortcut macro into a new branch called helmaville.