Hmm. Ignore that last email of mine. I figured out what was going on (to some degree), and my question clearly was off the mark. Let me try and rephrase the question, then. Given a url path a/b/c, if a is a "simple function" and b, and c are dynamic (hence require _q_getname involvement at some point) -- what is the sequence of attribute lookups and method calls which results in the response? Does _that_ question make sense? --david "time for bed" ascher