xmldirector.plonecore is the technical foundation of the XML-Director project (www.xml-director.info). The goal of the XML-Director project is building an enterprise-level XML content management system on top of the CMS Plone (www.plone.org) with support for XML databases like eXis-db or Base-X. However the underlaying implementation can also be used to mount arbitrary backend through WebDAV into Plone.

See https://travis-ci.org/xml-director/xmldirector.plonecore

xmldirector.plonecore integrates Plone 4.3 and higher with eXist-db providing the following features:

• mounts an arbitary eXist-db collection into Plone
• ACE editor integration
• ZIP export from eXist-db
• ZIP import into eXist-db
• pluggable view mechanism for configuring custom views for XML database content by filename and view name
• create, rename or delete collections through the web
• extensible architecture through Plone Dexterity behaviors
• support for XQuery scripts called through the RESTXQ layer of eXist-db (allows you to call XQuery scripts and return the output format (JSON, HTML, XML) depending on your application requirements)
• dedicated per-connector logging facility
• small and extensible
• experimental support for mounting arbitrary WebDAV service into Plone (set the emulation mode to webdav in the eXist-db control panel of Plone)
• Dexerity fields:
  • XMLText - a field for storing XML content in BaseX or eXist-db
  • XPathField - for retrieving parts of XML content stored within a XMLText field through an XPath expression (e.g. for extracting and displaying metadata from XML content)
  • XMLBinary and XMLImage fields for storing binary data and images in BaseX or eXist-db. The functionality is identical with the standard Dexterity file and image fields (except for the different storage layer)

See https://pythonhosted.org/xmldirector.plonecore/