[Zope-CMF] importing 1500 documents

[Chris Withers]

Smokejumper wrote:
> Hello, I am very new to Zope and CMF. 
> 
> I have a site for a small magazine that i want to convert to zope/cmf. The 
> site contains about 1500 document roughly in 3 different types: articles, 
> author descriptions and book reviews. The site runs on iis 5.0 and the data 
> is stored in an msaccess database. Zope will run under Solaris.

If you can avoid Solaris, I would:
http://www.zope.org/Members/glpb/solaris

> I figured that the best way for me would be to generate the 1500 documents as 
> as many xml files (the site works currently with xml an xslt to display them, 
> so this would be easy for me). I would create 3 different content types 
> (article, author and bookreview) in CMF. And I would write a script that 
> "reads" the xml content into zope and creates the cmf objects.

All good, except why bother with XML? Why not just write a script that uses a 
ZSQL method or two and an ODBC database connector and creates the content in CMF 
from that?

> is there a specifice cmf-management interface to create cmf objects from 
> script ?

Look for invokeFactory, IIRC...

cheers,

Chris