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Michel Pelletier wrote Is it possible to code a special kind of folder that changes the aquisition order?

One thing I'd like to point out here, is that you are getting into something very, very deep. This discussion has gone pretty far, but I still dont get it. What I want to see is a very, very trivial example of what you want to do, and why you can't do it now. There may be another solution.

I also haven't actually been able to figure out exactly what it is that's being asked for. Is it something like this? Say we have a web site in /admin/web/.... and we want to have totally different look and feels for the web site - different colors, fonts, logos, or whatever. One way to do that is to put all the looknfeel specific elements into a folder in, say, /admin, and then wrap the pages in <dtml-with lf_foldername> page contents here </dtml-with> or, if the looknfeel folder name is in a variable, <dtml-with "_[looknfeel]"> page contents here </dtml-with> so say we have /admin/ lf_prettycolors/ lf_prettycolors2/ lf_plainpages/ web/ content inside each of the lf_ folders, you'd have a bunch of standard named objects, e.g. a dtml method called 'header', another called 'footer', maybe properties for 'font1name', 'font1size', 'font2', &c. when calling the pages in /admin/web, I'm assuming there's a cookie, or a form variable, or something, called 'looknfeel', that's set to, for example 'lf_plainpages'. A page in /admin/web could then look like <dtml-with "_[looknfeel]"> <dtml-var header> <font face="<dtml-var font1name>" size="<dtml-var font1size>">Welcome</font> body here... <dtml-var footer> </dtml-with> and it will pick up header, footer, font1name, and font1size from whichever folder is named by the looknfeel string. Obviously there's a lot more you can do here to make this cleaner, and more managable, but there's a start... Anthony