Evan Simpson wrote: > > This might do what you want: > > <td tal:content="here/title | default"> </td> Nope... the problem is that title exists, it's just a blank string. The above would work if title didn't exist (well, see my earlier question about alternate paths...) but because it does here, all I get in the output is: <td></td> ...which shows up badly ;-( Any other ideas? cheers, Chris