Hello, (I posted this question to zope-db@zope.org but no one replied so I am posting it here as it is urgent.) I have a web application which is written by some other person using zope/zodb/python. Now client wants to write this application using php/mysql. But existing data stored in zodb database has to be exported to mysql database. Zodb uses fileStorage to store data. I have tried zope's xml export but that doesn't make any sense to me. Now problem is I don't have much knowledge about zope. I have only basic knowledge that everything is stored as an object. I also have some knowledge of python. I have searched the web for any information about zodb but could not find much. I have only 2-3 days so I cannot learn zope then zodb and then python. My problems are: 1. How do I identify which of these objects store data(tables) because zope stores everything (images, dhtml files, folders etc) as objects so I want only objects which store data(rows) and then how many of these tables are there? 2.How do I determine how many fields are there in each data object and what are their names and data types. 3. How do I extract data from these objects and then store that to some intermediate format (csv) and then import it to mysql. So what I want to do is introspection. I don't know where to start. There are many sub-folders under this web applications. I know that I have to use external methods and I have tried it like this: from ZODB import FileStorage, DB storage = FileStorage.FileStorage('data.fs') db = DB( storage ) connection = db.open() root = connection.root() // up to this point it works. now when I try something like: students = root['students'] error message is displayed that students not found. For this reason I want to determine in which objects data is stored so that I can get its values. I also have to determine the name of the attributes (fields) used in this objects so that I can create mysql table fields of the same name and data type. If possible, please give me complete code which I can just copy and paste in external method file. If that is no possible then provide some other working example or explain the steps in detail as I don't have much knowledge about zope and co.