Hi folks, I have hacked on the export code to allow you to export more than one object at a time. Now I'm trying to grok the import code. Can someone help me figure out what's going on? I have an export file in XML format that looks like this: <?xml version="1.0"?> <ZopeData> <record id="5602" aka="AAAAAAAAFeI="> [ first record's data here... ] </record> <record id="5603" aka="AAAAAAAAFeM="> [ second record's data here... ] </record> </ZopeData> If you export a folderish object, you'll see basically the same export format. (When you export a folder, you get all of the objects rooted in that folder.) The difference is that these two records are not related -- they are simply both contained in the same folder. The problem that happens on import is a KeyError on line 194 of this bit of code: lines 192-197 of lib/python/ZODB/ExportImport.py ooid=h[:8] if oids: oid=oids[ooid] if type(oid) is TupleType: oid=oid[0] else: oids[ooid]=return_oid=oid=new_oid() If I change this code to ooid=h[:8] if oids and oids.has_key(ooid): oid=oids[ooid] if type(oid) is TupleType: oid=oid[0] else: oids[ooid]=return_oid=oid=new_oid() then the import appears to succeed, but only the final object in the file is actually imported. I have to say that some comments would be nice in lib/python/ZODB/ExportImport.py Also, are both of these files used? lib/python/ExportImportXML.py lib/python/OFS/XMLExportImport.py Plus, I am having a hard time finding the right documentation for working directly with the ZODB to see what's going on. Can someone help point me in the right direction? Here's what I'm trying to accomplish: 1. Allow multiple objects to be exported at once (this is working) 2. Allow multiple objects to be imported at once (this is not) 3. Allow imports to overwrite existing objects (haven't tried this yet) Thanks in advance for any assistance. Fred -- Fred Wilson Horch mailto:fhorch@ecoaccess.org Executive Director, EcoAccess http://ecoaccess.org/ P.O. Box 2823, Durham, NC 27715-2823 phone: 919.419-8567