On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Michael R. Bernstein wrote: > How are you entering the data into the system? Specifically, > how are you *normalizing* the Author and book information? I don't know what you mean by normalizing, I'm afraid. The data is stored and upated in the external Paradox database, which I then import into PostgreSQL using a Paradox-to-SQL converter and some bash scripts. > I'm working on a ZPatterns based book cataloging > application, and right now I'm storing 'Book' objects with > the author names as a 'lines' property in the ZClass. > > I'd like to change this so 'Author' objects are created and > stored in their own Specialist when a book is added, but I'm > not sure how. I'm not sure I understand what the issue is. Can't you just, when data is entered to create a Book, query the Authors specialist to see if the Author exists and create it if it doesn't? --RDM _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
