Make sure you cater for novices. The Zope Content Management Guide is at about the right level, I think, but is hideously out of date :( I really like the idea of a step-by-step sample site though... After that you need to introduce DTML in all its gory detail :-) Like the DTML Guide but more of a guide than an out of date reference. (make you you include the tree tag in detail, it results in a lot of posts...) That'd probably cover a small book quite comfortably ;-) If you need more, then cover specific areas like SQL methods, ZClasses and the PTK. A whole other section would be for Zope administration (maybe even a seperate book!) including the simple things like installing and runing on Unix/NT along with things like hosting behind apache with proxypass, etc... If you had space you could chuck ZEO in here too.. My $0.08 Chris Tom Deprez wrote:

Hi,

I'm going to (try!) to write a small book on Zope. I hear people complaining a lot about the documentation with Zope. I'm all ears to hear what persons expect from such a book. Right now, I'm generating the table of contents, thus it's a good time to include what people expect. After that I'll post this to the publisher. If the publisher agrees, then it's only waiting until the book is finished.

You can send examples of what you need, ideas etc to my address tom.deprez@village.uunet.be and I'll try to incorporate them.

Regards, Tom.

ps. This is also good information for the ZDP.

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