[Zope] one 'document' in many 'folders'

[Wade Leftwich]

As a demonstration project to try and get a client to go with Zope, 
I'm converting a newsfeed database that I had originally built using 
Perl.

The object of the game is to pull fresh articles from a Reuters 
server every two hours and put them in a bin. A human editor goes 
through the bin, culls and sorts the articles, edits where 
appropriate.

One article may appear in more than one section of the site. For 
example, an article titled "Zope Is Cool" might appear in the 
Python, Web Development, and Open Source sections. Each 
section has its own contents page.

This is where I get confused. My Perl application simply used the 
filesystem as a database, and generated three separate static 
copies of "Zope Is Cool", placing one in each of  three directories: 
/python, /web_development, and /open_source. I suspect there are 
much better ways to do it in Zope, but how do I organize things?

My naive idea is to make each article a Document, one of whose 
properties is a list (or dictionary) of categories in which it should be 
placed. Generating each section's contents page would then take 
some figuring out, and performance on doing the contents page 
would be a concern.

If there's a better way, I'd certainly appreciate hearing about it.

Signed,

Confused a/k/a





Wade Leftwich
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