Phillip Eby said..

Try:

return template(self,content='hirst')

Right now, your DocumentTemplate has nowhere to get info_from_email *from*.

Also, btw, <!--#in "function()"--> is perfectly valid, I do it all the time. However, in a case where an ExternalMethod needs a 'self', you may have to call it as:

<!--#in "function(name_of_folder_to_be_used_as_self)"-->

This was true in older versions of Zope, anyway, I don't know what the current state of things is.

Yes. At last. That's it. This works... import DocumentTemplate from Acquisition import Implicit def dosearch(self): template = self.search.read_raw() completed = DocumentTemplate.HTML(template) theresult = completed(self, content='a') return(self, theresult) Notes: 1) search is a DTML document that does a ZSQL query. This is the code that I want to modify (and ultimately, let others modify to their own specifications). This is *such* a big win for us... 2) In this snippet, content is defined in the Python code. In my real application it is obtained from a db lookup 3) the read_raw method is important, otherwise the template is HTML-quoted 4) Phillip is *the man*! :) Many thanks Phillip, this has broken a huge log jam for me. cheers again, tone out.