I suppose that you would set up a "proxy" object (just use a ZClass) instance somewhere in the ODB that has a method that represented external data scraped from the web via an external method and http client libraries in python. I assume this woulr work? Sean -----Original Message----- From: Dirksen [mailto:dirksen_lau@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 6:38 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] ZCatalog and searching the external data Hi, The beginning of Chapter 9 of Zope Book says 'You can also use it to search external data such as ... remote web pages.' But the chapter doesn't mention anymore on how to do that. Any clues are appreciated! Cheers Dirksen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices! http://auctions.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )