[Zope-CMF] Re: GenericSetup content exporting

[Rob Miller]

Raphael Ritz wrote:
> Rob Miller schrieb:
>> Spanky wrote:
>>> Greetings!
>>>
>>> I'm just getting started with GenericSetup, and I feel like I'm 
>>> missing something simple.  Hope you can help :)
>>>
>>> My goal is to get some default content exported as XML so I can use 
>>> it as part of the GS profile for my new site.
>>>
>>> In my experimenting:
>>> I have a stock Plone site, nothing special.  I make a test folder and 
>>> test page in it.  I make the Plone Profile active and export.  In 
>>> that export, I don't get any of the content I've created TTW.  I'm 
>>> walking through it in a debugger to try to see what happens where.  
>>> Any advice on getting content exported would be appreciated.  I've 
>>> been reading the docs that are excellent in explaining how to set up 
>>> a profile and use GS, but nothing along the lines of getting the 
>>> content OUT of a site.
>>
>> GenericSetup's content import/export works well w/ default CMF 
>> content, but AFAIK it does not yet fully support AT-based content.  AT 
>> has the Marshall product, which provides infrastructure for 
>> (de)serializing AT content into XML; it would be nice to write some 
>> content im/export adapters that use Marshall, but i haven't heard of 
>> anyone who's done that yet.
>>
> 
> There is at least XMLForest:
> 
>   http://plone.org/products/xmlforest
> 
> and
> 
>    http://svn.plone.org/view/collective/XMLForest
> 
> which might land at least in Plone one day
> 
>    http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/112

ah, yes, sorry.  i meant that nobody had yet wired anything up to work with 
GenericSetup.  thanks for clarifying.

-r