There ought to be an easier way .. Suppose I have a folder structure A-B-C-D | E-F and an object in D needs to reference an object in F, the reference is resolved by writing a set of nested dtml-with statements, first referencing B, then E, and finally F. B is found by acquisition, but traversion the path has to be explict. It's a pain to write and puts information about the site organization more deeply into the methods than I would like. I'm sure there's a better way to manage things, but I have not a clue. Can someone point it out? A related problem arises when some of the path is computed. For example C-D-E A-| C'-D'-E' is a fairly common structure in one of my sites. I compute the choice between C and C' and then try to construct a path, but it keeps giving me referece errors, I suppose because the thing I compute is a string and not the object (duh...). I suppose I need to use getattr() to find the associated object :-) -d