Casey Duncan writes:

The following should work in your nested standard_html_footer to call the higher level one without infinite recursion:

<dtml-with "PARENTS[1]"> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> </dtml-with> I fear this solution is very unstable.

"PARENTS" is defined by the URL path (loosely spoken). This means, what "PARENTS[1]" is depend on the number of path components in the URL. If there are sufficiently many components, you will get the infinite loop again. I think, there is no reliable way when "standard_html_footer" is a DTML method, as such an object has no way to access itself. With an DTML document, you may have a chance (I did not check): you would need an external (maybe Python) method def container(o): '''returns 'o's container.''' return o.aq_inner.aq_parent You could then try: <dtml-with "container(this())"> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> </dtml-with> Dieter