Integration of Plone with eXist-db. Short talk given at the XML Prague Conference, Exist-DB users meeting, February 2015

1. Structured Content Rocks!
Integration of eXist-db with Plone
Andreas Jung/@MacYET
ZOPYX • www.zopyx.com
eXist-db User Meeting XML Prague 2015

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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 😊

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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

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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)

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Current editorial workflow
Word/DOCX -> XML+HTML
(c-rex.net)
• Metadata management
• SVG management
Conversion to PDF
(PDFreactor, CSS Paged Media)
Publishing and Archiving

14. Content structure
inside eXist-db

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Version 01.04.2013
Version 07.08.2014
Version 25.03.2012
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Version 25.03.2012
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xml
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Publish

18. mmakarzinom-der-frau
current
archive
draft
Version 01.04.2013
Version 07.08.2014
Version 25.03.2012
pdf
html
media
1.jpg
2.jpg
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index.html
index.pdf
source incoming.docx
xml index.xml
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Archive

19. root
de
en
onkopedia
my-onkopedia
onkopedia-p
knowledge-database
mammakarzinom-der-frau
mammakarzinom-des-mannes
mammakarzinom-der-frau
…
…
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
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incoming.docx
index.html
index.xml
index.pdf
my-onkopedia
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20. How to map this into Plone?

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onkopedia-p
knowledge-database
mammakarzinom-des-mannes
mammakarzinom-der-frau
…
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
source incoming.docx
xml index.xml
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2.jpg
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pdf index.pdf
source incoming.docx
xml index.xml
html index.html
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pdf index.pdf
Connector
http://host/de/my-onkopedia/mammakarzinom-der-frau/archive/version-25.03.2014/@@view/xml/index.xml
Connector
Connector

22. ‣ 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…

23. ‣ 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

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Produce & Publish
XML to PDF
Query Server
Word2XML
Plone
CMS
DGHO
Member Database
Authentication
DOCX
XML, Assets
Authorization
PDF, EPUB
HTML, XML + CSS
XQuery
XML, HTML, JSON
Mac
XM
LEditing,AssetsEditing
XM
LEditing,AssetsEditing
W
ebDAV
W
ebDAV
Windows
JSON
HTML
XMLXQuery
WebDAV
Onkopedia Onkopedia Editor (Intern)
OnkopediaEditor(Intern)
OnkopediaSiteVisitor
OnkopediaSiteVisitor
OnkopediaEditor(Intern)
External Systems
Clinical systems
Medical applications
Medical databases
HTTP
REST API
Guidelines (XML)
Addendums (XML)
Assets (Images, Styles)
PDF
DOCX
eXist-db
XML database
Architecture

25. Questions?