Dimitris, <dtml-in "['Jim', 'Alan', 'Bob']"> hello <dtml-var sequence-item> </dtml-in> NOTE: the <dtml-in "PYTHON EXPRESSIONS ARE IN QUOTATIONS"> also note how sequence-item is NOT in quotes, the sequence-item variable is understood in the DTML namespace but not in the python namespace. if you tried <dtml-var "sequence-item">, your essentially saying, print sequence - item and you will get a NameError. try this: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('sequence', 2)"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('item', 1)"> <dtml-var "sequence-item"> sequence=2 item=1 print sequence - item <dtml-with friends> <!-- friends being a container, having document Jim, Alan, Bob --> <dtml-in ['Jim', 'Alan', 'Bob']> <!--these objects exist in the friends container--> <dtml-var sequence-item> <!--this renders the Jim and party object in the container--> </dtml-in> please look at the <a href="http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/">ZOPE book</a>. its full of goodies. you kinda have to learn a little about python to be productive in ZOPE (dont worry Python is the easiest language I've encountered), but you will constantly trip over Python vs DTML (hurdle 1) and then mastering The Namespace (hurdle 2), then armed with that you can work on your Acquisition (hurdle 3, which cant be fully understood w/o the previous 2 steps, IMO). ~runyaga