[Zope] ANNOUNCE: Zope/XML Roadmap

[Phil Harris]

I thought you'd like this one Tone, ;)


----- Original Message -----
From: Tony McDonald <tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk>
To: Zope List <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] ANNOUNCE: Zope/XML Roadmap


> This is really good news.
> At the moment, I go through a *lot* of hoops to get my study guides
> into an XML format (from RTF) and then into SQL so that they can be
> delivered through a Zope frontend in good old HTML. An example of
> what we do is at http://nle.ncl.ac.uk/nle/demo/ (select the 'database
> driven study-guides' link)
>
> One thing that we want to be able to do is edit the material online -
> however, to do that means that we need to recreate the XML element,
> together with it's attributes from the SQL entry, and then put it in
> the right place in the XML document hierarchy. Then go through the
> conversion process again.  If I can put my XML documents more or less
> 'as-is' into a Zope system, I am going to be one *very* happy camper!
>
> Tone.
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> Dr Tony McDonald,  FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project
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