[Zope] Zope Database in XML

[Jim Fulton]

Theodore Patrick wrote:
> 
> What I am referring to is rendering objects in the ZOPE database to a file
> system view. The object database could be managed as a Network Drive(except
> that the view would be data in the ZOPE object database). You could through
> some translation (xml or other) render the object database to CIFS/NFS.
> 
> 1. Run applications directly from the ZOPE file system.
> 2. Modify and Render objects through a regular file explorer or file manager
> potentially an external text editor or file editor(word,excel,other).
> 3. Objects that had no meaning to the file system view would not be
> rendered. Attributes to file properties.
> 
> This is a feature of 8i that oracle is pushing. The rendering of a database
> to a user that does not realize it is a database.
> 
> ie.
> 1. Open a spreadsheet in the Network Drive and see a current version of a
> file and its data.
> 2. Intranet is now a shared drive - depending on your privileges - you see
> different objects.
> 
> I guess what I am asking is: Can Zope act like a CIFS/NFS file
> system(virtual file system) with a layer of translation for converting Zope
> Objects to File system objects directly (XML or other)?
> 
> If I understand it, this is how the database is rendering objects to HTTP or
> now(Zserver)FTP. Why can't you render them as a Network file system?
> 
> Any thought?

Ah.  I think that this is one of the things that WebDAV is going to
accomplish.  For example, IE5 can create an thing that looks like 
that looks like a Windows explorer on a Zope folder.

Jim

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