[Zope] OpenOffice, Webdav question

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Paul Browning wrote:

>[Integrating OO/Zope through COM]
> 
> 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).


Integrating OpenOffice and zope will indeed be a very cool killer 
application. The more I look at OO, the more I like it and think it will 
have a great impact.
As for integration via COM, I'm no expert at this, but using UNO (OO's 
component model) might be the better way.
Take a look at
http://polysorbate.org/?work/pyuno
the beginning of python bindings for UNO.
I'm very excited about the possibilites which this might offer in the 
future, unfortunately I'm quite unfamiliar with the exotic language OO 
is implemented in ;-).

Another remark, perhaps for OpenOffice Documents it might be worth 
contemplating about not going the conversion route (at least in some 
cases - e.g. spreadsheets), instead doing something with the files 
natively, it's XML afterall.

cheers,
oliver