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font-family:Arial'>Hi,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m trying to decide which version of Zope would work
best for a project on which I’ve been assigned to work. I’ve
personally had no contact with Zope before yesterday when I downloaded 2.7.1
and 3.0.0b1 to start playing around a bit.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The project involves a web page where users can upload files
of a specific format (zipped SCORM-conformant e-learning files to be
exact). The system would then rip out all of the meta data and perhaps
the full text of the files in the zip and index them for searching. The
MD is in XML, but we’d also perhaps like to support RDF and some others
like RSS. Each file in the system would then be linked to the MD by some
sort of GUID-equivalent. Then the users could search the MD and text and
the system would return a results list, and afterward repackage their content.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Now, I’ve been asked to decide which version of Zope
would work better for this. I would think that native XML support (which
I read will be better in 3 but don’t understand how yet) would be a huge
plus. Also, the new ObjectHub replacement for the ZCatalog might really
help me. Zope’s native authentication services have also been given
a huge overhaul and we’d like to leverage those as well.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I was hoping that someone out there with better in-depth
knowledge of Zope would be able to read this list of reqs and be able to tell
me in (semi-)detailed fashion just why 3 or 2.x would be a better decision.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks all for your help,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Eric Hielscher</span></font></p>
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