rgines@purina.com wrote:
As this list is good at doing, answering one question raises 47 others.
Here is a thought provoking question. I'm curious as to what the group think in this list would come up with.
Here's the requirements in bullet for (for ease of reading and commenting).
1) Client wants to be able o publish to the web AND paper (please notice this is a 'client' request no mine <g>)
2) The source of the document must be able to be maintained in an application that is well known within the client organization ... hmmm ... maybe 'Word'!? <mute on> grumble choke cough etc. etc. <mute off>
3) Client wants all documentation to be able to fit within the existing look and feel for the site etc. etc
4) Client wants this task automated to the point where the ZGotW does not need to be called to handle.
ZGotW Issue #4 brought up some decent ideas that would take care of pieces of this.
I've got an idea, but although I know networking very well, am currently rising up the ranks of Zen Zope, and have a decent understanding of the inner workings of the HTML inner-workings ... alas <shame mode on> I am not very good at all with Python <shame mode off>.
Here's the thought provoking question ....
How difficult would it be to allow a user to upload an HTML file created from MS-Word (or some other tool which created HTML> either through a Zope form or WebDav, but have the file immediately upon hitting the save button, be parsed by a Python snippet which would remove the opening and closing HTML strings (which are covered by our standard_html_header and standard_html_footer methods). This should be able to handle the best of both worlds.
Unfortunately, I do not know enough Python at this time to dive into this. I'm curious to hear if someone thinks that this is doable or if I am totally off my rocker ... (of course it is possible that both are true).
I look forward to your comments.
First, I have added your note as an "after-market" reply to the ZGotW#4. Second, there is a command-line utility (loadsite.py, in the $ZOPE_HOME/utilities directory) which already does the stripping you talk about when loading HTML files into Zope from the local file system. Extracting that code for use in a PythonMethod should be very straightforward. This technique should work reasonably well for "one-way" migration (moving from Word to Zope), but will be somewhat problematic trying to "round-trip", I think (Word may get confused trying to open/browse/edit/save the document once it is in Zope). Tres. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com