Hello, Thanks for getting this document going. It's good to see where XML is going in Zope. I do have a question, though. For me, the main value in XML has been in its usefulness as a flexible interchange format. Right now, I can store data as objects (either straight Python or ZClasses) in Zope and transform those into XML if I need to share it with the outside world (eg RSS). Similarly, though I haven't done this, I believe I can take XML from the outside world, parse it and store it in objects in the database. Are there advantages to storing the data in Zope as XML vs. storing my data as objects? Thanks, Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: Glenn Gasmen To: zope-dev@zope.org Cc: consultants@fourthought.com Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 11:05 PM Subject: [Zope-dev] The future of Zope with XML http://www.zope.org/Wikis/zope-xml/Unified%20Vision