on 20. desember 1999 administrator@consotec.de wrote : acd> Hello, acd> i'm somewhat new to ZOPE, so forgive me if these are trival questions. i'll answer question 2 , and someone more skilled thatn me will have to answer Q1.. acd> 2) Simple question ! acd> I wan't to list the content of a directory ( say /temp) and provide a acd> formatted view. The dtml skeleton would like the following: acd> <dtml ... list directory> acd> <dtml for each item > acd> do some formatting acd> ..... acd> How can I list the content of a directory using DTML. How can I read acd> the content of a file using DTML? acd> Thanks acd> Alfons You could use : <dtml-in "objectValues(_['DTML document'])"> ..html-formatting <dtml-var title_or_id> .. more html-formatting.. </dtml-in> It will do the stuff between the dtml-in-tags for each item.. This is actually very well documented in the DTML-guide on zope.org. ('the in-tag' and 'batch-processing' chapters) -- Geir B Hansen web-developer/designer geirh@funcom.com http://www.funcom.com