Ronald L Roeber writes:

... As per your suggestion. I get an Attribute Error from Zope every time I try to get the ZPublisher.HTTPRequest.record instance to behave like mappings.

get, copy, items, values, has_key all generate attribute errors. Strange. I can do that. Are you sure, you use a record instance?

I tested with the following form/action pair: test_record_form: <dtml-var standard_html_header> <h2><dtml-var title_or_id> <dtml-var document_title></h2> <form action="test_record_action"> <p> <input name="a.a:record" value="a" type="hidden"> <input name="a.b:record" value="b" type="hidden"> <input type=submit> </p> </form> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> test_record_action: <dtml-var standard_html_header> <h2><dtml-var title_or_id> <dtml-var document_title></h2> <p> <dtml-var expr="a.items()"> <dtml-var expr="a.copy()"> </p> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> I remember that your original post mentioned ":records" not ":record", then your object is a sequence of "record" objects. You need to first select a single record object (throuch subscription with integers, e.g. "o[0]") and can then use the record methods and attributes. Dieter