All, I'm in the process of trying out the ZPT stuff(thanks to Duncan Booth for the win32 stuff). Anyway up, It's all going according to plan but I have a few issues, maybe someone has a better idea than me what's wrong here. <code starts here> <?xml version="1.0" ?> <html xmlns:tal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/tal" xmlns:metal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/metal"> <head> <title tal:insert="here/title">The title</title> </head> <body> <h2 tal:insert="here/title_or_id">the title</h2> <div tal:define="ui python:container.userInfo()"> <b tal:replace="python:ui['dn']">crap</b> <b tal:replace="python:ui['sn']">crap</b> <b tal:replace="python:ui['cn']">crap</b> </div> <hr /> <a href="index_html">click here to refresh</a> </body> </html> </code ends here> The problem is that I'm getting a traceback (I won't bore you with the details unless I have to) to the effect of 'ui' being unknown. If I replace the 'div' in the code above with: <b tal:replace="python:container.userInfo()['dn']">crap</b> <b tal:replace="python:container.userInfo()['sn']">crap</b> <b tal:replace="python:container.userInfo()['cn']">crap</b> then all works according to design, but with a lot more overhead. btw, the userInfo method returns a dictionary of LDAP information, it works in all other contexts, so I don't think the problem is there. Anyone got any ideas? Phil phil.harris@zweb.co.uk