Hi there, the last days I played around a little bit with Xindice: This is an OpenSource-XML-Database from the Apache Group, you can find it here:
http://xml.apache.org/xindice/ Scribus uses also XML as file-format. So, why not putting Scribus-docs in that database ... it's just one command. What would be the advantage of that? Well, now it is possible to search the whole database - or just a part of it - for *every* XML-tag that it is possible in a Scribus-document. For example, for some of my Scribus-docs I defined a color named "SPD Rot". Now it is just another command to find *all* documents which contains a color named "SPD Rot": xindice xpath_query -c /db/scribus -q "//COLOR[@NAME='SPD Rot']" (or something like that) Think of what would be possible: A server in the middle, storing all the Scribus-files. And than possible queries like "Give me all documents, created by Tom between january and march, which uses a color named "SPD Rot" and has the picture xyz.jpg on page number 3". Could be a realy new kind of workflow. Realizing something like that via Python could not be sooo difficult ... ;-) Greetings, Tom -- ---------------------------------------------------- | So ein Unsinn sich einer Sekte anzuschliessen | | wenn man Bier zuhause hat | |--------------------------------------------------| | http://www.thomas-zastrow.de | ----------------------------------------------------
