[Zope] Javascript and Zope

Hello . . . I was planning on using Javascript to do some data validation on a Zope site, but as it turns out, Javascript has big problems coping with the type-conversion tags (:string, :int, etc) and the ":records" tag. (I could certainly live without the type converters, but the ":records" tag would be quite handy.) I couldn't find a way to let Javascript reference any of the form items that used the ":whatever" construct. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks in advance for any help! -CJ