i have a main page template: index_html i have a number of content templates that i would like to include into my main page. the title property is set for each object: content_1, title = "number one" content_2, title = "number two" content_3, title = "number three" i'm trying to dynamically choose which content object to display based on a request variable. here is what i have in index_html: <HTML tal:define="page request/page | string:content_1"> <span tal:replace="python:container[page].title">title</span> <span tal:replace="structure python:container[page]">body</span> this is what i see if i browse to index_html?page=content_2 number one <ZopePageTemplate instance at 8960bf0> so the title is working! but the body is not. how can i get zope to include the contents of the object? is there a better way to translate a string into an object? if i make a call to tal:replace="container/content_1" i have no problems - i just can't figure out how to do this dynamically... thanks!