I understand your point here, being able to edit a doc that lives directly in a database is a very cool feature of Zope, and one that originally got me using Zope, but this still may be a nifty solution where you already have a MS Word based knowledge base (as many companies do). Also if you get into the new StarOffice or KOffice all of the datafiles are XML anyway. So pulling in data from a directory of files may make a comeback from the database backend.
I use FreeBSD for much of my Webware development, but I use MS Word for most of my writing. (I used to be a religious WordPerfect user - the DOS 5.2 may just have been the most perfect Word Processor every) But I teach MS Word in a college class, and pretty much every office I have been to uses it. Also as a datastore the MS Indexing server is buggy and slow - but very effective if the META info for the word files are used. Rather then push users to learn a new protocol - webdav - I'd rather use what they know. (I fight the Linux/MS battle on the server - where I can win) Although I guess a VBA script that pushed the data from the word doc to the db when the file is saved would be easier and less of a load on the server. The less you have to teach the writers the better. -Aaron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Aaron Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [Webware-discuss] WebDAV > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:57:17PM -0400, Aaron Held wrote: > > From: "Mike Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > be useful with Webware? What kinds of things would you want to edit? > > > > > > I could perhaps see it being used to edit large data fields of some > > > persistent object; e.g., article text. Would it lend itself to that? > > > > Years ago I had to turn a NT shared folder of MS Word and MS Excel > > files into an Intranet. It was pretty straighforward to use COM to > > extract certain fields from the files and create HTML pages on the > > fly. I never really thought about using MS Word files as a means to > > generate large text areas - I usually use MS Access as a front end to > > PostGres/MS SQL. > > > > Work can export to HTML so there should be some function call to grab > > a page as HTML. My current project pulls and pushes data to/from > > excell pages, so I'll try to check this out if I have time. > > I use Linux, so I don't use Word, Excel or Access, although I have > used them in the past. > > Webware (and Zope) were originally written to support a > document-editing-and-publishing application. (Think "newspaper" or > "magazine".) In those situations, being able to store an article in > a database but having a way to import/export it to an editor is a > big plus. The data would be in text, HTML or XML format. That's > the kind of situation I was thinking of. > > -- > -Mike (Iron) Orr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (if mail problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://iron.cx/ English * Esperanto * Russkiy * Deutsch * Espan~ol _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
