I was just wondering why the new style dtml tags don't seem to follow the XML standard. For example, <dtml-var standard_html_header> can't be written as: <dtml-var name="standard_html_header"/> or: <dtml-var name="standard_html_header"></dtml-var> This seems to me (ignorant as I currently am of Zope's internals) an unnecessary restriction. My speculation is not entirely idle. It would pave the way, for instance, to enabling end-users to utilise an XML editor to manage content, or allow specialised XML-enabled applications to output DTML content. Can anyone throw any light on this? Thanks. David Trudgett