I may not end up needing this (still tinkering), but is there a way to break out of a file iterator loop? For example, I want to iterate over all the objects on the current page, but if I find the condition I'm looking for, there's no reason to continue the iteration. For example, checking to see if there are any thumbnail image comments on this page:

<ja:fileiterator>
     <ja:if exists="comment">
          Found one!
          break;
     </ja:if>
</ja:fileiterator>

If it's not page-restricted, I would just use an ordinary ao.getChildren() "for" loop, where breaking out is simple.

I think this might have to be a feature request

And files can be hidden now, not just folders!

That's true just of "pages," isn't it? That includes web locations. I haven't addressed that in any of my skins, but none of them supports extra pages, anyway, and web locations are a separate kind of beast. Tough to think of the situation in which someone would want to have a web location object, but hide it - the core isn't going to "process" it in any fashion.

I don't remember that I've implemented any ja:break tag, so you'd have to manually iterate using getChildren(). I'm willing however to implement a ja:break as it's to be expected to exist whenever there are iterators around.

What would probably be somewhat more useful is a method to let the skin do its own iteration over the objects on the current page. If the skin isn't doing multiple index pages, there's no problem - you just iterate over the children from predir.bsh. But things get messy when you are producing multiple index pages, and need to traverse only the piece of the tree that will be shown on the current page.

Probably not worth the effort, however. There are almost no remaining skins that support multiple index pages at a given level.