[Zope-CMF] how do I manipulate a CMF document programatically?

[Tres Seaver]

Frank McGeough wrote:

> If I have members that have created CMF documents and I want to manipulate
> those documents programatically, how would I proceed?
> An example of the need is suppose I have a bunch of documents that people
> have written that refer to "Fuzzbot Generic Tummy Scratcher" and my company
> renames this to be "Fuzzbot Generic Back Scratcher" as they reposition
> themselves in the Fuzzbot market. I'd like to run a little Python script
> that goes through and replaces the former with the latter but I'm not sure
> how to do this. I can't seem to figure out how to get at the contents of the
> objects.

The 'EditableText' method should give you the raw HTML or StructuredText

of the documents;  you would manipulate the value, and then poke it
back in using the 'edit' method (which also requires that you pass the
'text_format').


Tres.
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