# The EditPage

## Overview

This page provides the user a table of all bookmarks in the application, and allows them to select a bookmark to edit or delete. In the template for this page, we've also included a link to allow users to add a bookmark.

## wmfactory_db_table

Because we've taken the time to build our storage backend the way we did, we can simplify the model in this Page. The storage object returns a BookmarkContainer object (which is basically just a list), with all of the Bookmarks stored by the application.

## wvupdate_table_data

Here's where the interesting part happens. First we're going to create a new lmx object wrapped around the node that had the view=table_data attribute defined. lmx is a thin wrapper around the w3c's DOM API (because of it's high suck factor), and allows us to write large amounts HTML from Python. You can read more about the details of using lmx module in the View In Depth howto.

First, we sort the table data by category to make it more readable. Then we create the actual html table. Each bookmark gets an 'edit' and 'delete' link next to it in the table to allow the user to select the corresponding action. In the case of an 'edit' link, the root of the url is EditLink, which is the page we'll use to edit the bookmarks, and the child is the id number of the bookmark the user wishes to edit. This is where the magic of getDynamicChild() comes into play.

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