I have a set of folders containing various versions of a project which are named x.y.z , where x,y,z are integers. This naming convention works fine for through the web management because the URL path separator is '/' . In fact Files or Images named <base>.<suffix> work great too. However, if I try to work with these Folders programatically via XMLRPC I get errors because xmlrpc.py is replacing all dots with slashes, and the folders x/y/z don't exist. Now OK, I realize the XMLRPC spec leaves method naming up to the server, that's fine. But if that's the case, and Zope internally uses dots as a separator, then why can I use dots in ids and they work in the web interface, and is there any way out of my current predicament short of making hierarchies of folders x/y/z etc. or creating a proxy method that does something like getattr(getattr(<root object>,'x.y.z'),'method')(params), which is fairly ugly? Any way to escape my dots ? J. Toman