Dear list, this is my first dabble with a document type framework and with the list, so please be lenient. a) I want to create an author mode action in order to change a certain attribute. I am using the ro.sync.ecss.extensions.commons.operations.ChangeAttributeOperation operation and have set the value attribute to ${ask('break=',combobox,('yes';'no';'maybe';'':'null'),'')} Now I would like to set the default value not to some static default but to what is currently present in the attribute. Is there some way to get the value of this attribute in the action's parameter definition? b) On a related note, is there a Operation in place that would allow me to just edit whatever is there as attributes in the current element - as one long, free-text string? The ChangeAttributeOperation seems to be able to change only one attribute, so for editing several attributes of one and the same element I have to define different actions and trigger them separately...? c) Finally, I would like to use i18n inside of the ask() variable, say for the message part. Is that possible? Sorry for asking three questions at once, I just hope they are so closely related that it makes sense to do it this way. Thanks and all the best, Andreas -- Dr. Andreas Wagner Project "The School of Salamanca" Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz and Institute of Philosophy Goethe University Frankfurt http://salamanca.adwmainz.de Grüneburgplatz 1 (Pf 116, R. 2.455) 60629 Frankfurt am Main Tel. +49 (0)69/798-32774 Fax +49 (0)69/798-32794