[Zope] OpenOffice, Webdav question

[Andreas Jung]

Zope 2.6 allows to retrieve the document source through the
standard HTTP port. Check the CHANGES.txt of the trunk
for an explanation.

-aj

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Browning" <paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Cc: "kent" <kent@springfed.com>; "Tim Hicks" <tim@sitefusion.co.uk>;
<casey_duncan@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 02:34
Subject: Re: [Zope] OpenOffice, Webdav question


>
>
> --On 11 May 2002 10:14 -0500 kent <kent@springfed.com> wrote:
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Is anyone using OpenOffice 1.0 to edit Zope documents
> > via Webdav?
> >
> > The OO doc says it is Webdav capable.
> >
> > In Zope doc I found mentioned that a port other
> > than 8080 will return source of a page instead of
> > rendered.
> >
> > Is there a predefined port to return source?
>
> No - but you can set it in z2.py
>
> # Port for the special "WebDAV source view" HTTP handler.  There is no
> # standard port for this handler, which is disabled by default.
> WEBDAV_SOURCE_PORT=[]
>
> so do something like
>
> WEBDAV_SOURCE_PORT=8088
>
> Paul
>
> P.S. On a different tack, whilst I haven't looked at OpenOffice recently,
> I did note from a recent thread on the python-win32 list that OpenOffice
> supports COM.
>
> Tim Hicks and I have developed something called "zlave"
>
> <http://www.zope.org/Members/tuppence/zlave/>
>
> that allows Microsoft Office docs (via XML-RPC - if you need
> to have a Unix box in the mix - and COM) to be automatically
> converted to HTML, in the manner of MSWord Munger
>
> <http://www.zope.org/Members/Kaivo/MSWordMunger>
>
> but using kosher Word (say, rather than wvWare, which in our experience
> tends to fail as the uploaded Word doc gets more complicated).
>
> Thought: if OpenOffice supports COM, perhaps one might be able
> to remove Microsoft Office from the architecture? (see
> <http://www.bris.ac.uk/ISC/cms/zlave.gif> for the latter)
>
> Comments? IHMO this is a killer application for any intranet
> and indeed Zope in general ....... moreover post-processing
> of the so-called HTML that Word produces (dunno about Open
> Office) allows such converted documents to be used in contexts
> of wider visibility (so due regard can be paid to accessibility
> issues, etc).
>
> --
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>
>
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