Chris Withers writes:

The entity syntax for DTML (&dtml-;) automatically url-quotes the result. But it should not according to the specification!

First of all "&dtml-XXX" does html_quote and not url_quote. Then, Lambert used "&dtml.-XXX" which should do nothing. I expect, the problem is already in "getURL". It "knows" that the ZCatalog path may contain characters illegal in URL (such as space) and therefore url_quotes the result. This is unfortunate for your case. May might use a "Direct Traversal" (--> ZSQL advanced feature) or "Python Script Traversal Subpath" approach to work around the problem. In both cases, you would replace the query string by path components. Dieter