Thanks- this worked perfectly! <dtml-in expr="get_record(PermitNumber=PermitNumber)"> Subject: RE: [Zope] passing value to sql method question Hi Sean You are correct that you are inside the speech marks (""), you have to talk python rather than DTML. What you really want is: <dtml-in expr="get_record(PermitNumber=PermitNumber)"> Or if this is a ZSQL then it's even simpler: Just call it like: <dtml-in get_record> Subject: [Zope] passing value to sql method question Hi, Learning dtml and zope... I am trying to call an sql method called get_record and pass a parameter to it. This works if I hardcode the value into the dtml method like this: <dtml-in expr="get_record(PermitNumber=12345)"> However, The above line is in a dtml method called edit_dtml So I want to call edit_dtml from an html document like this: <a href="edit_dtml?PermitNumber=<dtml-var PermitNumber>"> <dtml-var Company null=""></a> The value of PermitNumber gets passed okay and can be displayed in the called page (edit_dtml) with: <dtml-var PermitNumber> But I need to plug it into the dtml-in expresssion something like this: <dtml-in expr="get_record(PermitNumber=<dtml-var PermitNumber>)"> But this generates a syntax error. There must be a correct way to do this. Any ideas on how else I might do it? I assume that the part after expr=" must be python code and this is why this does not work ?? Sean Kelley Technology Coordinator City of Santa Rosa