--- ECHO_content/ECHO_resource.py	2008/12/04 21:27:00	1.1
+++ ECHO_content/ECHO_resource.py	2008/12/17 12:12:27	1.2
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ from Globals import Persistent, package_
 from Acquisition import Implicit
 from Products.ZCatalog.CatalogPathAwareness import CatalogAware
 from Products.ZCTextIndex.ZCTextIndex import manage_addLexicon
-from Products.MetaDataProvider.MetaDataClient import MetaDataClient
+try:
+	from Products.MetaDataProvider.MetaDataClient import MetaDataClient
+except:
+	print "no metadata services"
 import urllib
 import urllib2
 import cgi