Hello, I've been reading this list for about month and a half now (plus backlogs) and I can say that if it wasn't for this list, I would have abandoned all hope long ago (don't get me started on documentation :) Anyway, I have a following design problem that I'm unable to solve by myself: I'm trying to build a distributed content editing and publishing site, to which content writers can log in, write in their stories and have editors edit/approve them for publication. Now, I'm thinking that my data is basically mostly flat-file or object-based (i.e. non-relational), thus I have chosen to abandon SQL-databases as my storage. This means using the Zope object storage to store everything. NOw, there are a couple of promising alpha products out there (Squishdot and KM|News) that both do some of the things I want to. I'm afraid I'm not so adept at Python as to start combining them myself, so I have to choose either or for my task. The third possibility would do it all by DTML and roll my own Zclasses to represent different article classes (this *looks* straightforward enough). My question is: if I choose either of the products, how do they store their articles, how do they keep references to those articles and if I (at a later date) decide to change the product I use, can I still keep accessing those old articles with my new product? Let me give you an example (totally hypothetical): 1. I install Squishdot on Zope2.0 and build/run my site on that 2. Squishdot stores articles in it's own way and in X amount of time I will have, say 600 articles 3. I grow out of Squishdot, learn the magic of Zope and roll my own mega-publication product. 4. I now have a new implementation that stores slightly modified article objects in a new storage using Zope (i.e. still not using relational DB). ?. How do I access the Squishdot articles? Do I still have to run use and hook into the Squishot product or can I somehow access them from my own code with even having Squishdot installed? ?. What about if I originally chose KM|News, how do I access them? I know the above questions probably already contain some fundamental misunderstandings of Zope, but I'm afraid this is as far as I've been able to get by myself. To be quite honest, the whole idea of how Zope stores, references, deletes, fetches and searches objects is extremely vague to me. So, if you have any opinions, facts or even speculations about above, please let me know. I'm starting to think my brain is swelling from too much speculation of my own :) Best regards, Samu Mielonen PS If you need help with the documentation effort and can find work for a Zope newbie, I'm all for it. -- "Zone of proximal development - ...the conceptual space or zone between what a [human] is capable of doing on his or her own and what [he/she] can achieve with assistance from ... a more capable peer." - The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology