hi, at the moment we are builduing a database-enabled three-language website. we have the contents (texts) for the site already in a database. I wrote a Z-SQL-Method sql_get_text which takes id_to_get as argument. So, when I call <dtml-in "get_text(id_to_get=xxxx)"> <dtml-var text_value> </dtml-in> I get the text I was looking for. (Note that this ZSQL-method will return only one result, because id_to_get is the primary key of the database table and therefore unique). I wanted to make things a bit easier for the people who generate the templates for the site. So I coded a helper-method named get_text which also takes id_to_get as argument. It holds exactly the code-snippet from above. By doing so I wanted the HTML-Coders to type <dtml-var "get_text(id_to_get=xxxx)"> so that they do not have to worry about the dtml-in-tag. It did not work. I get an error-message that Zope can not find the ZSQL-method sql_get_text method. Here is the traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 214, in publish_module File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 179, in publish File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 202, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: ElementWithAttributes) File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 165, in publish File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: content) File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 102, in call_object (Object: content) File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 150, in __call__ (Object: content) File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 502, in __call__ (Object: content) File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 335, in eval (Object: _['content-ms']) (Info: _) File <string>, line 0, in ? File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 161, in careful_getitem File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 146, in __call__ (Object: content-ms) File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 502, in __call__ (Object: content-ms) File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 335, in eval (Object: get_text(id_to_get='AXIN_001')) (Info: get_text) File <string>, line 0, in ? File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 146, in __call__ (Object: get_text) File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 502, in __call__ (Object: get_text) File /usr/local/src/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_With.py, line 132, in render (Object: REQUEST) KeyError: (see above) My next idea was: <dtml-with REQUEST> <dtml-in "get_text(id_to_get=xxxx)"> <dtml-var text_value> </dtml-in> </dtml-with> I don't know why, but the <dtml-with REQUEST> fixed a lot of errors before, so I just gave it a try. But then I received and error-message telling me that I am trying to refference the non-existing object REQUEST. Now, why doesn't it find my method and why did the REQUEST-object disappear??? PS: I am doing Zope for half a year now but the namespace-stack is still mysterious to me. Andy Pahne, ap@net22.net net22 GmbH Bad Meinberger Strasse 1 32760 Detmold 0 52 31 - 580 640 http://www.net22.net