Easily import static HTML files into Plone.
Project description
Parse2Plone is an lxml/soup parser (in the form of a Buildout recipe) to easily get content from static HTML files into Plone.
Installation
You can install Parse2Plone by editing your buildout.cfg file like so:
First, add an import section:
[import] recipe = parse2plone
Then, add the import section to the list of parts:
[buildout] ... parts = ... importNow run bin/buildout as usual.
Execution
You can run Parse2Plone like so:
$ bin/plone run bin/import /path/to/files
Demonstration
If you have a site in /var/www/html that contains the following:
/var/www/html/index.html /var/www/html/about/index.html
You should run:
$ bin/plone run bin/import /var/www/html
And the following will be created:
Explanation
Why did you create Parse2Plone when the following packages (and probably many more) already exist:
Here are a few reasons:
Because Parse2Plone is aimed at lowering the bar. Particularly for folks that don’t know (or want to know) what a “transmogrifier blueprint” is, but can edit their buildout.cfg files and run a single command without having to think too much.
collective.transmogrify provides a framework for creating reusable pipes (whose definitions are called blueprints). Parse2Plone only provides a single, non-reusable “pipe/blueprint”.
The author had an itch to scratch. It wil be nice for him to able to say “just write a script” and then actually be able to point to an example.
Consternation
Parse2Plone requires lxml which in turn requires libxml2 and libxslt. If you do not have lxml installed “globally” (i.e. in your system Python’s site-packages directory) then Buildout will try to install it for you.
At this point lxml will look for the libxml2/libxslt2 development libraries to build against, and if you don’t have them installed on your system already your mileage may vary (i.e. Buildout will fail).
Communication
Questions, comments, or concerns? Email: aclark@aclark.net
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