Hi Randy,

... I figured this would be easy to do with Zope. I created a subdirectory called "modules" and put some modules into that; for example, "leftbuttons" is a dtml method containing a table data block which contains the standard left menu button HTML. I figured I could whip up a page and at the appropriate place in that page, do a '<dtml-var "modules.leftbuttons">' and have that code inserted into the page.

That was my thinking. "leftbuttons" views properly by itself. However, when I try that dtml-var statment above, the page displays raw HTML.

try the following: either: <dtml-var "modules.leftbuttons()"> or: <dtml-with modules> <dtml-var leftbuttons> </dtml-with> the reason for this is: anything inside "" is a python expression, meaning it is interpreted as if you typed it into an running python-interpreter (with the zope-context around, of course). So python calls the ojects __repr__() method here to display it. For string-like objects __repr__==__str__ (with single quotes arount them) For some zope objects "self-displaying" means showing their data as source. If you use <dtml-var > without the quotes, zope does do some magic with the __call__() method of the object. Calling a dtml-method renders its output rather then the source. This is what is done in the first variant. NB: often you have to provide the documents context to the method, so the above call is somthing like <dtml-var "modules.leftbuttons(_,_.None)"> (or such like - have to look again over some documentation or the list for this) HTH Tino Wildenhain