"and in the same way to my first question about xml-documtents is it possible to link msword-documents residing in the local filesystem to zope via the MSWord-Document Product, the Word-Munger Product or by any other means dynamically. So that changes in the external word-document are reflected in zope on the fly and I could reference to the content by dtml-var?" I haven't tested the products you mentioned yet. But as long as you use Zope to check your documents in and out (e.g. via WebDAV), they should do what you want. As far as I understand MSWordDocument, it will catalog the Word document, add an HTML version of it to the ZODB, and keep the original file in the filesystem. Or do you want to just edit the documents in the filesystem and make Zope find out automatically that the files have changed? In that case, You'd need some kind of process that checks the file system folders regularly and updates the catalog and HTML in Zope. This seems to be doable, but it makes only sense for small companies or organizations, where all people can upload their docs into the same filesystem folders. As soon as you have to use remote protocols like FTP or WebDAV anyway, using Zope as the gateway for check-ins/check-outs seems to be the better way.