integration of plone with exist-db

Structured Content Rocks!Integration of eXist-db with Plone

Andreas Jung/@MacYET ZOPYX • www.zopyx.com

eXist-db User Meeting XML Prague 2015

www.xml-director.info Professional XML Publishing (C) 2015 ZOPYX

Speaker‣ Python developer since 20 years ‣ Worked for several publishers in Germany ‣ Plone contributor since more than a decade ‣ Building large CMS solutions on top of Plone & Python ‣ own "Produce & Publish" publishing platform ‣ eXist-db user since one year ‣ founder of "XML Director" project

‣ Neither Java nor XML addicted 😊


What is Plone?

‣ Enterprise-level Web CMS

‣ Content-types

‣ very flexible workflow system

‣ fine-grained access and roles management

‣ very secure

‣ written in Python

‣ based on the Zope application server


Onkopedia project

‣ www.dgho-onkopedia.de www.onkopedia-guidelines.info

‣ Plone CMS project since 2010

‣ Portal for medical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of hematology and oncology diseases

‣ DOCX ➝ XML ➝ PDF (Produce & Publish)


Current editorial workflow

Word/DOCX -> XML+HTML (c-rex.net)

• Metadata management

• SVG management

Conversion to PDF (PDFreactor, CSS Paged Media)

Publishing and Archiving

Content structure inside eXist-db

root

de

en

onkopedia

my-onkopedia

onkopedia-p

knowledge-database

mammakarzinom-der-frau

mammakarzinom-des-mannes


…

…

onkopedia

current

archive

draft

Version 01.04.2013

Version 07.08.2014

Version 25.03.2012

pdf

xml

html

media

source

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

incoming.docx

index.html

index.xml

index.pdf

my-onkopedia

source incoming.docx

xml index.xml

html index.html

media

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

pdf index.pdf


xml index.xml

html index.html

media

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

pdf index.pdf

root

de

en

onkopedia

my-onkopedia

onkopedia-p

knowledge-database




…

…

onkopedia

current

archive

draft

Version 01.04.2013

Version 07.08.2014

Version 25.03.2012

pdf

xml

html

media

source

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

incoming.docx

index.html

index.xml

index.pdf

my-onkopedia


xml index.xml

html index.html

media

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

pdf index.pdf


xml index.xml

html index.html

media

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

pdf index.pdf

Publish

root

de

en

onkopedia

my-onkopedia

onkopedia-p

knowledge-database




…

…

onkopedia

current

archive

draft

Version 01.04.2013

Version 07.08.2014

Version 25.03.2012

pdf

xml

html

media

source

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

incoming.docx

index.html

index.xml

index.pdf

my-onkopedia


xml index.xml

html index.html

media

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

pdf index.pdf


xml index.xml

html index.html

media

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

pdf index.pdf

Archive

root

de

en

onkopedia

my-onkopedia

onkopedia-p

knowledge-database




…

…

onkopedia

current

archive

draft

Version 01.04.2013

Version 07.08.2014

Version 25.03.2012

pdf

xml

html

media

source

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

incoming.docx

index.html

index.xml

index.pdf

my-onkopedia


xml index.xml

html index.html

media

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

pdf index.pdf


xml index.xml

html index.html

media

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

pdf index.pdf

How to map this into Plone?

root

de

en

onkopedia

my-onkopedia

onkopedia-p

knowledge-database




…

…

onkopedia

current

archive

draft

Version 01.04.2013

Version 07.08.2014

Version 25.03.2012

pdf

xml

html

media

source

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

incoming.docx

index.html

index.xml

index.pdf

my-onkopedia


xml index.xml

html index.html

media

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

pdf index.pdf


xml index.xml

html index.html

media

1.jpg

2.jpg

…

pdf index.pdf

Connector

http://host/de/my-onkopedia/mammakarzinom-der-frau/archive/version-25.03.2014/@@view/xml/index.xml

Connector

Connector

http://host/de/my-onkopedia/mammakarzinom-der-frau/archive/version-25.03.2014/@@view/xml/index.xml

‣ www.xml-director.info

‣ Integration of the Plone CMS with

‣ eXist-db or Base-X (over WebDAV)

‣ Open platform for building XML CMS solutions

‣ battle proven since many years

‣ Join the project…

‣ Plone content-type (Dexterity) ‣ maps a subtree from eXist-db into Plone (similar to Reflecto) ‣ traversal support ‣ UI for managing collections (add, remove, rename) ‣ ACE editor integration ‣ pluggable view registry for eXist-db content (by-suffix) ‣ ZIP import/export ‣ support for XQuery scripts called through the RESTXQ layer of eXist-db

‣ persistent per-connector logging ‣ small and extensible ‣ Plone security & rights management apply on the connector level


Produce & PublishXML to PDF

Query Server

Word2XMLPlone CMS

DGHOMember Database

Authenticatio

n

DOCX

XML, Assets

Authorizatio

n

PDF, EPUB

HTML, XML + CSS

XQuery

XML, HTML, JSON

Mac

XML Editing, A

ssets

Editing

XML Editing, A

ssets

Editing

WebDAV

WebDAV

Windows

JSONHTMLXML XQuery

WebDAV

Onkopedia Onkopedia Editor (Intern)

Onkopedia Editor (I

ntern)Onkopedia Site Visitor

Onkopedia Site VisitorOnkopedia Edito

r (Intern)

External Systems Clinical systems Medical applications Medical databases

HTTPREST APIGuidelines (XML)

Addendums (XML)Assets (Images, Styles)

PDFDOCX

eXist-dbXML database

Architecture

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