Hi all, I'm calling an external method with this DMTL: <dtml-var "db2onehtml(_.getitem('test.xml'))"> Which works fine so long as I upload "test.xml" as a _file_. If I upload test.xml as Parsed XML I instead receive this error message: Error Type: TypeError Error Value: call of non-function (type string) <!-- Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 223, in publish_module File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 187, in publish File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 221, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: Traversable) File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 171, in publish File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: test) File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 112, in call_object (Object: test) File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/OFS/DTMLDocument.py, line 189, in __call__ (Object: test) File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 540, in __call__ (Object: test) File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 339, in eval (Object: db2onehtml(_.getitem('test.xml'))) (Info: db2onehtml) File <string>, line 0, in ? File /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/ExternalMethod/ExternalMethod.py, line 269, in __call__ (Object: db2onehtml) (Info: ((<ParsedXML instance at 88281c0>,), {}, None)) File /usr/lib/zope/Extensions/db2onehtml.py, line 29, in db2onehtml (Object: Traversable) TypeError: (see above) --> It appears Parsed XML items in the Zope database are not objects like files. http://www.zope.org//Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ParsedXML/ParsedXMLIsNotXMLObjec... I want to be able to treat Parsed XML as an object. I hope someone can give me a clue where to proceed. I also tried calling a python method which took the XML data from the Parsed XML and converted it to a string. I then tried feeding my external method with the string. But I just receive this error message: 'string' object has no attribute 'id' My Zope details: Zope 2.3.3 (source release, python 1.5.2, linux2) Python Version 1.5.2 (#0, Apr 10 2001, 10:03:44) [GCC 2.95.3 20010219 (prerelease)] System Platform linux2 ParsedXML (Installed product ParsedXML (ParsedXML 1.0)) Thanks everyone, Adam