You should look through the mailing lists .... there is generous amounts of answers to this. For me the two sit philosophically linked in the acquisition model. Acquisition is partially about actions working in environments, with the environment decribing the quality of the result. You can think of a DTMLMethod as an action, who itself has no substrate, i.e. properties, and DTMLDocuments as substrate, i.e. it contains properties etc, for example background colour, types of animals, whatever. One can then throw a method around into different environments, i.e. call it on documents, and one will get a result that is dependent on that environment(document). It is also nice that environments can acquire from their surrounding too, so you should think of acquisition in DTMLDocuments as been for more and more global properties as one moves out, eg: a company logo. Whereas acquisition for a method is to actually acquire an environment to work in. Well that's the way I view it, and it helps. Matt On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, The Doctor What wrote: > What are the differences between DTML Documents and Methods > internally? I was just thinking about the problems every new user > (and experienced users, every so often) have regarding DTML > Documents vs DTML Methods. > > Aren't they really the same except that Documents are anchored (ie, > don't allow aquisition from the caller, but only from the location > of the Document)? > > If that is true, couldn't they be simplified as a (example name) > DTML Object that had an "anchor" flag? > > Just a thought. > > Ciao! > > -- > So Buddha walks into a pizza parlor and says: "Hey, make me one with everything." > > The Doctor What: Need I say more? http://docwhat.gerf.org/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] KF6VNC > > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) -- _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )