On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 09:08:38AM +0900, Tom Sawyer wrote: > well, i have an object called a Miter, and it has an array of Table. > each Table has an array of Section. each Section has an array of Cell. > and each Cell has an array of Element. > > so when i create a Miter, i pass in a @layout and a @prefix. the @layout > gets parsed thus creating all those subobjects, but in so doing, each > Element has a @name which needs to be prefixed with @prefix. > > does that help? Hmmm.. is @prefix know when you're creating your Element objects? -- Alan Chen Digikata LLC http://digikata.com