Offline Plone?

Edit Plone content types offline, on your Notebook, and synchronise them back...SEXY

Solutions: based on "Marshalls", "ATXML": GSXML, XMLForest,...

XMLForest is ... ugly - at least the code. The concept behind is SEXY. Why?

What is XMLForest?
Basically it is a prototype for a complex usecase. Here are the Core-Features:

• Export Plone-Content
• Use standard (tised) formats as much as possible
• Store the data in readable formats
• Get references and relations
• Make new references/relations to existing contents
• Make possibilities for new structure
• Perfectly fit to export complex content.

GSXML does many things more easy than XMLForest ... but: It doesn't fullfill all criteria above. The GSXML Team has also worked on Marshall to make it better.

The goal: "forest". Started one year ago in Bolzano on the Toerggelen Sprint and developed further on the Sorrento Sprint. Nowatime: A generic Multi-Pass-Converter - without Zope-Context yet.

From the Sprint "imscp" was born: Pure Python Module for handling IMS Content-Packages (= generic extendable XML-/ZIP-File based format to pack content).

The goal is combining the developement of GSXML, forest and imscp to create a tool for a lossless Ex-/Import.