Hi folks, I'm having some troubles trying to develop a particular zope object and would really appreciate a bit of help. I'll explain what I'm trying to do: What we have is a tree of nodes rooted in a folder (excuse my ascii art) like so: + DocumentRoot (folder) + a + b + c + d + e + e + f + g + X (proxy, pointing to 'e') Here [a-g] are our node objects, and X is a proxy-object. The proxy-object is intended to behave a bit like a sybolic link with a few extra features. I have looked at Shane Hathaway's Symlink product, which does the linking job just fine. It allows us to create a proxy that behaves just like the target, but we also need the proxy-object to have it's own attributes and methods. In the above hierachy, the desired way of finding an attribute of the proxy 'X' goes something like: - look in the proxy object ('X') - if not there look in the proxy target ('e') - (maybe) if still not found acquire from aq_parent ('g') - otherwise raise AttributeError I guess we are wanting X to behave as though it were a child of the object it links to, so X always behaves as though it were X.__of__(e) (and possibly also a child of g, ((X o g) o e) or ((X o e) o g) if not too complicated). I have tried hooking __getattr__ and have a hard time avoiding recursion; I have taken a look at the ever-productive Shane Hathaway's TransparentFolder product as well but I think I am let down by my lack of understanding of the particulars of acquisition. Can anyone shed some light on how i might do this? All objects under the DocumentRoot will be derived from one of our base classes, so if we need to override __getattr__ as per TransparentFolders it can be done easily. Cheers __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com