Chris Withers has suggested extending the DTML Entity syntax to include traversal information. For example: &dtml-foo/bar/baz; I just checked the XML standard. This isn't allowed in XML entities. http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#NT-Nmtoken EntityRef ::= '&' Name ';' NameChar ::= Letter | Digit | '.' | '-' | '_' | ':' | CombiningChar | Extender Name ::= (Letter | '_' | ':') (NameChar)* However, we could consider &dtml-foo.bar.baz; instead. I can't think of a nice alternative to mean &dtml-/foo/bar/baz; "from the root, traverse as follows". -- Steve Alexander Software Engineer Cat-Box limited http://www.cat-box.net