Keith; Thanx for your swift and helpful response. This is *just* what the doctor ordered!!! peace

Here's a solution similar to what you'd need (taken from http://sportsters.thuban.org/Trips).. note the first-<var>/last-<var>: I had to dig to find out that these existed. You don't even need a temp variable to handle it.

<dtml-in expr="PARENTS[0].objectValues('Folder')" sort="cat,title_or_id">

<dtml-if first-cat> <h3><dtml-var cat></h3>

<dl> </dtml-if>

<dt><a href="<dtml-var absolute_url>"><dtml-var title_or_id></a></dt> <dtml-if info><dd><dtml-var info></dd></dtml-if>

<dtml-if last-cat> </dl>

</dtml-if>

</dtml-in>

---------- Keith J. Farmer kfarmer@thuban.org http://www.thuban.org -----Original Message----- From: cgreen [mailto:cgreen@ttsg.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 14:39

What I'd like to do next is grab each property in a variable to compare against the value of the *next* iteration. If it matches, don't print the topic name in the table header. If it doesn't match, print the topic name and set the temp variable to the new value.