XML export/import is cool! (Was Re: [Zope-dev] Deprecating XML export/import?)

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 24 Mar 2006, at 16:07, Jim Fulton wrote:
> I think the XML export is a facility that is and should be advertized
> as a legitimate escape hatch for data kept in Zope.  People really
> shouldn't feel afraid of putting data in Zope/ZODB as there
> really is a useful way to get it out.

We have used it to produce a large "backup" before, but consistently  
ran into unicode encode/decode errors. The only way I could get it to  
export was to do the nasty sitecustomize.py hack and setting the  
default encoding to UTF-8.

jens

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