Thanks Philippe - I had a hunch that xml would be a possibility here. I haven't worked with XML yet, so I'm not sure how to make that work. (But I'm a quick learner, and I can see the weekend from here ... ;-) Any hints on how to edit an xml node online? (If it's in the docs online - I'll find it) Cheers, Mark Philippe Jadin wrote:

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departments to contribute information and answer questions. I'd like to convert the client's original file (MS-Word) into something that Zope can publish and allow edits. The users in our departments will not have access to the Zope Management Interface, and the goal is to use just a

Why not use xml? with a good zope xml product (there are two if I remember correctly), you could define some scheme that could be easy to update.

An xml document in zope is treated like a folder with differents objects (=xml nodes).

Each piece of information would be an xml node.

At the end, everything would be ocnverted back to pdf, word, or html with css for example...

Xml will be apiece of cake to convert / use in the future.

my $0.02

Philippe