[Zope-CMF] Packaging products for another system

[Nava, Christopher L. Contractor]

>> I'm trying to find an example of using a workflow script to "tar" a 
>> product as it is published.
>> 
>> For security reasons our intranet is physically disconnected from the 
>> web server. Published items are transferred via sneaker-net to the 
>> "dissemination system".
>> 
>> What I need to do is:
>> Dump a published document (html) to disk with any metadata that was 
>> added to it (summary, key words, etc...) Parse it for "img src=" tags >> (the images are already in the file system). Tar the document and it's >> images.
>> 
>> I found a script that creates a PDF via htmldoc...
>> (http://www.zope.org/Members/mjablonski/howtoPDF)
>> However, the htmldoc program takes a URL while the system's tar 
>> command takes a file system reference.
>> 
>> It would be nice to do the tarring within python if support for such
>> exists.
>> 
>> Has anyone done something like this?
>
>Why not use wget to spider the site and create a local copy, then tar it up for move to the production server?



I could easily write some Perl code that scrapes the site for published content.
However, I'm trying to avoid stepping out of bounds by writing a bunch of home grown code.
My "task" is to replace our existing home grown workflow with a COTS one.
(I know ZOPE isn't exactly COTS but that's what puts the cost within my budget. ;-)

BTW: Being able to spell 'Python' makes me our resident expert but that's as far as my skills run at the moment.


>
>I've got more complex ideas, but they seem like overkill for this situation. 
>
>srl


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