[Zope] why use zope?

James W. Howe jwh@allencreek.com
Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:08:03 -0500


At 09:45 AM 1/28/00 +0800, - wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Chris McDonough wrote:
>
> >
> > That said, your job should probably be to make it bone-simple for your
> > end users to publish stuff using Zope.  This may take a bit of
> > programming.   Perhaps construct an upload application which allows them
> > to upload an HTML file which gets parsed for identifying characteristics
> > and gets placed in the "right" area automagically or some such thing.
> > It's definitely possible to make it pretty easy for your users to do
>
>that is in the wish list.  the only thing i can think off now is lumping all
>existing contents in one dir, use lynx to update the appropriate properties in
>the appropriate ZClass automatically (cron(?)) using manageEdit, manageAdd or
>others.  or store data in an RDBMS.  but i lost out on keyword search.  i 
>would
>like to keep things in zodb for now.

Could something like xml-rpc be used to accomplish this task?  Would it be 
possible for there to be some task which bundles up the various content, 
puts it into an form suitable for xml-rpc and then just contact Zope and 
have it execute the xml-rpc content?

James W. Howe				mailto:jwh@allencreek.com
Allen Creek Software, Inc.		pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html		
Ann Arbor, MI  48103