I'm willing to make my site in Zope. I see several benefits from it. And I will use it at my own server... but, unfortunately, our hospital wants to place some pages also on another server.... and yes.... they don't want to use Zope... :-(((.
So is it possible... To convert my Zope pages to some plain html files?
Zope is highly scriptable, so wouldn't it in theory be possible to write something that let's you "publish" your site to say, an FTP server, as static files? I'm really new to Zope and don't know Python (yet) and am trying to get my mind around this. I spent some time using Frontier and before it went hog wild into dynamic publishing, it was basically a really nice templating tool (Ok, it was more than that, but for web developers....). You created all your pages and lots of embedded code and other objects in your Frontier database, which is similar to the Zope DB. Then you did a "publish site" on your tree in the database. The program rendered a series of static HTML pages and images and whatever else you had onto your hard drive which you could then upload via FTP. With version 5 and now 6, Frontier has moved to something that is more like Zope. But couldn't Zope move backwards a bit and work like Frontier does for those who need it? I can see quite a few uses for this. Zope is your development tool, but not your delivery mechanism. This would be really useful because now I can use Zope for more clients and more situations. Something like this could be useful for other tasks as well. Such as automatically taking content from a Zope site and sending to somewhere else (mail, ftp, andother WebDAV server, CVS, etc). I'm quite sure it can be done, but I don't know if it already has, but if not, I don't have enough Zope knowledge to even attempt it. _______________________________________________________________ karl fast fast@lights.com