[Zope] Architecture Suggestions?

Richard Gordon richard@richardgordon.net
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:55:53 -0500


At 1:17 AM +0100 1/31/02, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>None whatsoever. Although I would try to move everything over to storing
>everything in native HTML directly in the Zope DB and using a content
>management system for direct editing of the content by the users.

Conversion would be preferable, but it's not going to happen. There 
are several reasons, but the leading one is that they insist on 
concocting heavily formatted and illustrated Word documents that just 
don't render well in html. Even if you can manually overcome the 
deficiencies of the various conversion utilities available [I exclude 
the Zope product from that statement for now because I haven't 
actually tried it, but everything else certainly sucks], what they 
really want is what amounts to a picture of the file, but they hate 
pdf, so....

I've resigned myself to having to contend with Office documents and 
all of the many, many pains associated with them. On the bright side, 
this nightmare did present me with an opportunity to use python to 
write the only linkchecker that I know of that will test links 
embedded within Word documents and if I ever get around to cleaning 
up the code so that it is suitable for general use, I'll probably 
open source it.

Thanks for the reply.


Richard Gordon
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