I looking at translating an existing, large Plone site to drupal. Your module looks perfect for the job!-- except for the fact that I'm going to have to bone up on my XSL skills. I've successfully installed the module and done some simple first tests.

Can you tell me if anyone else has developed XSL templates for converting plone content types to drupal content types? Any other people you can point me to or hints you might have? Thanks.

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smoothify commented

I need to do this too for two pretty large sites.

I've been looking at this module and trying to decide whether its best to use it to pull the content from the plone site, or alternatively to write a product for the Plone site that walks through the content and pushes to drupal a different way.

I think it would be pretty easy to edit the plone skin templates to allow easy import with out much xsl transformations (mainly adding id's in the right places).

Feel free to contact me if you want to exchange ideas on this.

Thanks

Ben

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dman commented

Sorry I can't add much insight to this, I have never looked at Plone.

My platform-agnostic way is certainly to export a flattened site using a template with minimal, semantic tags, then re-import again.
I like flat files :)

For more complex tasks, the import/export API was supposed to be the interface for that, but I've never got to grips with it ... and frankly it came out too memory-intensive for a bulk site.

Last resort, a custom import script, is possible, but do NOT try to push stuff into the database yourself. Always build the node object and use the API node_save etc.

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dman commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Long fixed or dead. Time to clean up the queue.