Paul Browning wrote:
[Integrating OO/Zope through COM]
Comments? IHMO this is a killer application for any intranet and indeed Zope in general ....... moreover post-processing of the so-called HTML that Word produces (dunno about Open Office) allows such converted documents to be used in contexts of wider visibility (so due regard can be paid to accessibility issues, etc).
Integrating OpenOffice and zope will indeed be a very cool killer application. The more I look at OO, the more I like it and think it will have a great impact. As for integration via COM, I'm no expert at this, but using UNO (OO's component model) might be the better way. Take a look at http://polysorbate.org/?work/pyuno the beginning of python bindings for UNO. I'm very excited about the possibilites which this might offer in the future, unfortunately I'm quite unfamiliar with the exotic language OO is implemented in ;-). Another remark, perhaps for OpenOffice Documents it might be worth contemplating about not going the conversion route (at least in some cases - e.g. spreadsheets), instead doing something with the files natively, it's XML afterall. cheers, oliver