Maybe PathHandler, one of the nice products from the NIP guys, is a good starting point:
That was more or less what I wanted. It came too late though. Now I've already written a tiny product that uses __before_publishing_traverse__ and has a ignore/skip mechanism that is specifically relevant to our development. Thank you for the tip anyways.
"The Path Handler product lets you handle URLs which don't correspond to objects.
For example, if ph is a Path Handler, then, in the following URL:
See: http://www.zope.org/Members/NIP/PathHandler
HTH, oliver
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