ZDOM alpha release ZDOM is the result of a collaborative venture by Digital Creations and Fourthought Inc. to integrate the W3C Document Object Model interface with Zope, allowing effortless and familiar traversal of a Zope heirarchy. The current alpha release is based on Fourthought's 4DOM , which is one component of Fourthought's 4Suite. Fourthought provides custom technological solutions based on open technologies. 4Suite is a powerful set of Python tools developed by Fourthought for Web-based applications in areas such as Intranets, E-Commerce and knowledge-management. Elements of 4Suite have been adopted as core XML technologies in Zope and in the Python XML distribution The necessary files (which are all available on our ftp server: ftp.fourthought.com) are ftp://ftp.fourthought.com/pub/4Suite/4Suite-lib.tgz (TraceOut, TestSuite for 4DOM) ftp://ftp.fourthought.com/pub/4Suite/4DOM/4Dom-XML-Sig.tgz (4DOM xml-sig) ftp://ftp.fourthought.com/pub/4Zope/ZDOM-dist.tgz (ZDOM) ftp://ftp.fourthought.com/pub/4Zope/Zope-ZDOM-Patch (patch file for Zope) Documentation: ftp://ftp.fourthought.com/pub/4Zope/INSTALL.txt (the installation instructions) ftp://ftp.fourthought.com/pub/4Zope/Readme.txt (short description of ZDOM) ftp://ftp.fourthought.com/pub/4Zope/Release.txt (release notes) links: Fourthought: http://fourthought.com 4Suite: http://fourthought.com/4Suite/ DOM 2 Spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-DOM-Level-2-20000307/ Zope http://www.zope.org contact: consultants@fourthought.com Chimezie Thomas-Ogbuji Junior Consultant Fourthought Inc. cogbuji@fourthought.com