[Zope] dtml naming conventions and js

Hi, I've a form-field set that would be convinient to name as a record, something like: <input type="text" name="aForm.aField:record" value="aValue"> Having the necessity to reference some of these fields using java script, it appears that the fieldname violates the js namimg conventions. I know that I can change name like aForm_aField, but this forces me to extract the dictionary parsing the REQUEST.form. Does somebody know if there is a way to work around the js problem using the :record naming convention? TIA, p.t.