[Zope] Using Zope to generate offline content

[Roger Oberholtzer]

Check out the ZMirror product. It makes static html from a Zope
site. It works fine. It is small and easy to use. I looked at it
for a Zope site that was to be mirrored by non-Zope boxes.

On Wed, 22 May 2002 11:19:21 +0100
David Burton <eloquence@eloquent-designs.f2s.com> wrote:

> I'd like to know if there is such a product, as opposed to using wget, since I'm working on a WYSIWYG Article Management System, and the main 
> competition varies most significantly in functionality by being able to publish the site to static HTML.
> It seems to be a standard feature of all the major CMSs (Microsoft CMS, Red Dot, Vignette, Broadvision, Insite, etc) and one thing that separates Zope from 
> these systems.
> 
> (In case anyone's wondering the sanity of losing all the dynamic features - you keep the dynamic menus, articles, etc (or at least a snapshot thereof) so you 
> mainly lose web forms (search engines and application forms) which can be done with either separate code, or done to point back to the Zope instance, and 
> you gain a huge performance increase, plus a staging environment.
> 
> If anyone can help, that would be great - otherwise I'll have to look into writing something myself.
> 
> Yours,
> David Burton
> 
> 21/05/2002 20:19:01, Roger Oberholtzer <roger.oberholtzer@surbrunn.net> wrote:
> 
> >Isn't there a product that dumps a Zope site to html? (I know
> >there is - I just don't remember the name.) Unless I am mistaken,
> >there is a nice interface and all as well. 
> >
> >On Mon, 13 May 2002 19:30:51 +0200
> >"Christoph Roth" <c.roth@themelios.de> wrote:
> >
> >> On 13 May 2002 at 9:12, Christoph Schmitz wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Hi all,
> >> > 
> >> > I wonder if anyone uses Zope to generate "offline" content; what I mean is,
> >> > I'd like to use Zope to manage content, generate navigation stuff and the
> >> > like, but my ISP only offers static HTML pages. Thus, the idea is to export a
> >> > Zope site to static HTML pages and publish those. (Actually, I'm looking for a
> >> > replacement for the Website Meta Language (WML).)
> >>  (..)
> >> 
> >> Hi Christoph,
> >> 
> >> a good starting point for me was a short Howto "Mirror Zope with 
> >> wget" on Zope.org, look at
> >> 
> >> http://www.zope.org/Members/hdw/Tip/wget
> >> 
> >> Greetings,
> >> 
> >> Christoph
> >> 
> >> 
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Roger Oberholtzer