Hi Hector, I think the best way of getting content into Plone is using transmogrifier [1] nowadays. There are several piplines available but it is easy to write one or customize an existing one for your special needs.
HTH -Tom [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.transmogrifier/1.2 On 11/12/2010 08:00 AM, Héctor Velarde wrote: > I'm working on a project to migrate content from a well-known commercial > CMS into Plone (I would not name it but it's name starts with a V and > ends with an E). > > I already have a prototype Dexterity content type and now I need to > demonstrate importing capabilities. > > The other CMS uses a relational database so, when you export a content > type, it gives you a large and ugly XML file full of crap. Worst, this > content type is a container so it includes information about the files > inside it. > > I already found the XML elements relevant to me and I want to use > Beautiful Soup to parse the file. > > What's the best approach, to use a hot folder? > > Where I can find a code example of another packages using an importing > process like this one into Plone? > > Best regards > > > > _______________________________________________ > Product-Developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers -- My Book "Plone 3 Multimedia" ist available! http://amzn.to/dtrp0C Tom Gross [email protected] skype.....................tom_gross web.........http://toms-projekte.de blog...http://blog.toms-projekte.de _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
