collective.vdexvocabulary 0.1

What this package do?

IMS VDEX is a standard for exchanging vocabularies. collective.vdexvocabulary create bridge between vdex vocabularies and zope vocabularies, so you can easily use it in systems like Plone / Zope.

Whats so special about it?

Imagine you have big vocabularies with a lot of relations. I’m talking +10.000 terms with +30.000 relations. So this would be perfect use case to use collective.vdexvocabulary. Also there are other stuff which I didn’t found in other vocabulary packages for Plone/Zope:

• i18n support (as it is defined in IMS VDEX)

• proper order also with unicode charecters (if zope.ucol is installed)

• easy registration using zcml

• relations as it specified in IMS VDEX standard

How do I use it?

In your configure.zcml add:

<configure
    ...
    xmlns:vdex="http://namespaces.zope.org/vdex"
    ...>

  <include package="collective.vdexvocabulary" />

And to register a vdex vocabulary simply add line bellow pointing to file containing vdex vocabulary:

<configure
    ...
    xmlns:vdex="http://namespaces.zope.org/vdex"
    ...>

  <vdex:vocabulary file="path-to/very-interesting.xml" />

To make registration of vocabularies even easier you can also register several vocabularies and just point to directory:

<configure
    ...
    xmlns:vdex="http://namespaces.zope.org/vdex"
    ...>

  <vdex:vocabulary directory="path-to/my-vdex-vocabularies"

Where can I complain / help / send rum?

Source:

git://github.com/garbas/collective.vdexvocabulary.git

Report Issues:

http://github.com/garbas/collective.vdexvocabulary/issues

Home page:

http://github.com/garbas/collective.vdexvocabulary

Send rum:

contact rok@garbas.si for more info

Credit

• Rok Garbas, http://garbas.si, <rok@garbas.si>, Author

• Seantis gmbh, http://www.seantis.ch

  Thank you for initial idea with seantis.vdex where got the idea and then reimplement and extend it.

TODO

• write test and get decent test coverage

• write documentation

• make ZCML optional

• make through the web vdex editor (this would probably need sponsoring)