[Zope-CMF] Re: FSDocument type

Andrew Sawyers andrew at zope.com
Mon Nov 1 09:22:18 EST 2004


Tres Seaver wrote:

> Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
>> I want to convert an existing site that uses pretty much static 
>> content (in this case good old DTMLDocuments) to CMF. I want that 
>> content to end up on the file system in skins to improve 
>> maintainability. The most logical content type to use is the CMF 
>> Document. Now, there is no filesystem equivalent so I'm currently 
>> stitching one together.
>>
>> Question: I'd prefer this to go into CMFDefaul rather than stay a 
>> separate thing. Any concerns or comments (or yay/nays)?
> 
> 
> We already have an FSSTXDocument type, added as a way to configure 
> "help" pages as skins.  I would be glad to have that class generalized / 
> extended to support static HTML.
> 
> Yuppie's notion of a "content-space" DirectoryView has merit, as well. 
> Such an object might need some UI for setting policies separately from 
> those of the "software" type.
> 
> Tres.
When I was reading over this, this weekend I was thinking along Yuppies 
lines as well.  Both would be usefull though.
Andrew

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