Hi. In my oppinion, dtml-sqlvar is supposed to quote and prepare date for sql database. Therefore I think it should change None values into null, as it does with the optional tag, when values are omitted, but not when they are None. Any comments on that? -- Christian Theune - ct@gocept.com gocept gmbh & co.kg - schalaunische strasse 6 - 06366 koethen/anhalt tel.+49 3496 3099112 - fax.+49 3496 3099118 mob. - 0178 48 33 981 reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,[chr(ord(x)^42) for x in 'zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b'])