the structure of my zope-site is fully based on relational mysql-tables. I am generating, e.g., submenu-entries by selecting submenu-titel, submenu-id, submenu-text, submenu-image, etc., from the sql-table 'submenu' and inserting them into the page as dtml-variables (with that, I manage to maintain a 4-level sitemap with users editing contents via some simple ms-access-masks). on a specific content page, e.g., the start page of submenu_1, I added a horizontal navigation list like: submenu_1 || submenu_2 || submenu_3 by means of a <dtml-in submenu-sql-method> listing the <dtml-var submenu-titel>'s as well as their url's (traversal sql-methods). now, I want to escape the link-html-tag (<a href>) for that very sequence-item (submenu-entry) which is the one of the current page (e.g., when I am in submenu_2, I want to drop the (<a href>) for the sequence-item submenu_2): submenu_1 || submenu_2 || submenu_3 I tried this by means of a <dtml-unless> around the <a href>-tag, checking whether the current sequence-item is the same as the one the current page is being built on. my problem: how can I - within a dtml-in-tag - check whether the current sequence-item is a specific one: <dtml-var standard_html_header> <p>this is the submenu number <dtml-var submenu_id></p> <p>navigate to any of the submenu-entries at the same level <dtml-in submenu-sql-method> <dtml-unless expr="sm_id == '[current submenu_id]'"><a href="traversal_url"><dtml-unless> <dtml-var submenu-titel> <dtml-unless expr="sm_id == '[current submenu_id]'"></a><dtml-unless> </dtml-in> I tried to set - outside of the dtml-in-tag - a variable using REQUEST: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('[current submenu_id]',????)"> but it seems I cannot replace ???? by <dtml-var submenu_id> which - content-wise - would be the solution. I would be grateful for any hint. thanks lambert