Is it possible to catalog individual XMLDocument elements with ZCatalog? For instance, if my XMLDocument has something like "<abstract>some text</abstract>" can I catalog only that individual element, plus any sub-elements (by setting up an "abstract" text index in my ZCatalog)? What I would eventually like to do is build a system for storing scientific papers and I want to use XML as the archive format, but I'd like the ability to run searches over arbitrary sections of the document collection. From the readme file, it seems like XMLDocument would parse the file into a collection of objects that could be cataloged, but in practice it doesn't seem to work this way. I can catalog the entire document or add stuff to a property sheet and catalog that, but I can't catalog pieces of the xml file. Is this possible? Also, I thought I'd repost my earlier question as it's also along these lines -------

Does anyone have an example of the following working:

------------------------------------------------ "XML attributes are mapped to Zope properties. You can edit these values via the standard Zope property management interface and the changes are reflected in the xml of an element.

You can also edit attributes by editing the xml and these changes are reflected in the Zope property interface." ------------------------------------------------

I can't seem to get attributes to map to properties which can then be edited from the properties tab. Also, when I create properties, no changes are reflected in the XML document.

Am I misreading the above statements (I took it from the slides example that comes with XMLDocument). If so, could someone clarify what is actually meant by the above?

Looking for enlightenment, Jason Jones jason_j@countermedia.org