(using friend's email, please reply to cstrong@arielpartners.com ) We are putting together a website using Zope. All of our content is stored in XML documents. The documents have links in them, some of which are specified using URNs. The cross links from one local document to another are specified using URNs instead of URLs so that the content remains context-agnostic. In this way, we can map the URN to different URLs depending on the particular Zope instance. We don't want the content to "know" about the particular layout of the ZODB, or even that it happens to be inside Zope at all! (some of our clients use Apache Cocoon, or some other technology) There are three ways I can think of for making this work: 1) Our XSLT transformer could reference a map somewhere and turn the URNs to URLs in the resulting HTML. 2) Our XSLT Transformer could leave the URNs alone, and the Zope URI Resolution mechanism could be enhanced with a lookup table that would map a URN to a URL. Of course, the resolver would be programmed in python with full access to the power of acquisition... [:-)] 3) We could use acquisition directly, but there are two drawbacks a) it still requires knowledge of the layout of the ZODB -- that is, if something is in a particular sub-branch, you might have to use several <dtml-with> statements to make it work. That violates separation of concerns. b) we then have to emulate acquisiton in non-Zope environments. Thoughts, anyone? TIA! --Craeg __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com