[Zope] ANNOUNCE: Zope/XML Roadmap

[Ross J. Reedstrom]

Zopeists - 
Hmm, This all looks wonderful. It's particularly interesting to see
Tony McDonald's project developing right along with the tools. (Don't
you love living on the bleeding edge, Tony? ;-) A lot of people talk
about collaborative content development these days, nice to see some one
doing it.  Actually, with these tools all open source, it's a lot less
risky than being an "early adopter" of the latest and greatest vaporware.

The real reason for my post is to ask all you XML gurus about the
potential usefulness of AbiWord, the GPLed commercial word processor from
the people at www.abisource.com. In many ways, it's an MS-Word clone,
and it's cross platform - first targets, Win32 and Linux/(Unix/X/GTK,
actually).  Interestingly, it uses XML as it's native storage format. It'd
sure be cool to be able to use Zope as a sort of shared storage space,
and hand my users AbiWord and a URL.

Tony, you mention doing the RTF->XML->Zope->HTML shuffle. What tool
chain are you using for the first two conversions?

Ross
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Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu> 
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University, 6100 S. Main St.,  Houston, TX 77005