Well this is what I was trying to do: I am passing a userid value from a list. For example, userid username useremail 1 jack jack@blah.com [edit] [edit] is a link that will direct the user to an edit form. The link is created like this with a variable userid to differentiate between users such as, userEdit_Form?userid=1 <td><span><a tal:attributes="href python: 'userEdit_Form?userid=' + str(userid)">[edit]</a></span></td> So when I go to the edit form the fields will be pre-populated with the user information from what user was select which is identified by the userid. Then you can edit any field you want and leave any fields unchanged and click on submit and the user information will be updated. Thanks, Laura -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Heckel [mailto:andreas@easyleading.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:28 AM To: Laura McCord Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Getting an Error that I don't understand Laura McCord wrote:

Could someone tell me what this means and what is the resolution.

Compilation failed TAL.TALDefs.TALError: empty HTML tags cannot use tal:content: 'input',

at line 7, column 1

The error message is pretty clear. You used thomething like: <input tal:content="whatever" /> With tal:content you can modify the content between the start and end tag. <b tal:content="string:hello world">dummy content</b> will render: <b>hello world</b> But <input></input> is no valid XHTML ... Andreas Heckel http://www.easyleading.org