[Zope-CMF] CMF 1.4 Roadmap

[seb bacon]

Andy McKay wrote:
>>> a firm proposal how it works, but there would be a portal_text tool 
>>> that contains content type to portal_text mappings. Portal text would
>>>
>>>> contain the transformations such as STX, reSTX, HTML and so on.
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>> This sounds unsure enough that I'm inclined to put for 1.5...
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> Im really keen for this to be in, it might just be a matter of adding 
> some hooks in Document though for 1.4 and then having portal_text to 
> plug in. Tres and a few others have talked about this concept recently 
> and I think its pretty solid.

Here's a possible alternative approach:

I've been playing with some ideas in this domain, with regard to 
converting Word docs, etc - instead of just hooking in Documents, how 
about hooking into all PortalContent and having a portal_transformation 
tool?

Then you can convert a word document to html to structured text, etc. 
(That'll be a common use case, then ;-)

I'd like to be able to say to the tool, "here is some content of type X, 
and I would like it in format Y."

seb