Theodore Patrick wrote:

If you can access the database directly through this interface(xml/pickle), couldn't you *potentially* map a network drive to the interface(cifs/nfs). This could allow you to render data in and out of the database through the file system interface rather than ftp/http.

I'm not sure what you are getting at here. You can export and import data to a file system now, using the Zope database format, which is built on Python's pickle format. The XML conversion feature just gets the data into a slightly more editable form. One key difference between http/ftp and the file system is that Zope trusts the file system much more and is willing to get pickles (binary, XML, whatever) from it. This is a sort of a security feature. In the future, I'd like to make a variation on the Python pickler that was easier to configure to be pickier and safer to use with network supplied pickles. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@digicool.com Python Powered! Technical Director (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com http://www.zope.org Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(b)(1)(C), Sec.227(a)(2)(B) This email address may not be added to any commercial mail list with out my permission. Violation of my privacy with advertising or SPAM will result in a suit for a MINIMUM of $500 damages/incident, $1500 for repeats.