I've just released funnelweb which is designed help you crawl existing static sites and upload them into plone. A custom script directly accessing the db can also work but give funnelweb a go and let me know.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/funnelweb/1.0b2 Dylan Jay Technical solution manager PretaWeb 99552830 On 12/11/2010, at 6:00 PM, "Héctor Velarde" <[email protected]> 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 > -- > Héctor Velarde > > _______________________________________________ > Product-Developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
