Sven wrote:

hi to everybody

why does this wortk :

<dtml-with expr="x010314">

and not this :

<dtml-with expr="010314">

???????? the quotes should prevent it from being treated as a number i guess ???

thanx

SVEN

You have run into an unintuitive feature of dtml. That is that Quoted attributes are treated as expressions unless you explicitly use the name="..." syntax. so your first example, expr="x010314" is treated as: The object named x010314 Whereas the second example is treated as: The number 10314. Both are expressions, but the top one cannot be evaluated as a Python number, so it is treated as an object reference. name="x010314" and name="010314" would both treat them as object references as would expr="_['010314']" which all explicitly look for objects by name. You would also run into a similar problem if your object names contain punctuation the is considered significant in Python such as a period, space or dash. hth, -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan@kaivo.com `------------------>