Hi Zopistas, Thank you for the answers. My problem arose because I was passing a DTML Method a list of strings: [ 'PARENTS[-1]', 'FolderA', ...]. And while I could do: <dtml-with "_( folderObject=_.getitem('FolderA'))"> I could not do the same with 'PARENTS[-1]'. The simple solution suggested by your answers is to just pass the objects themselves (duh!): [ PARENTS[-1], FolderA, ...]. But out of curiosity I'm still wondering if there is a way to refer to the root folder by name so one could write _.getitem( 'rootFolderName' ) Andres Corrada