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

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 24 Mar 2006, at 16:12, Jim Fulton wrote:

> Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
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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.
>
> Interesting.  I imagine that this is fixible in a somewhat  
> straightforward
> way, although it is probably tied up with the general encoding mess  
> in Z2.

Yes, that's likely where the problem comes from. IMHO there is no  
reason to remove/deprecate it, but on the other hand it should not be  
advertised as a really user-friendly and easy way of exporting. It's  
still somewhat of a second class citizen when it comes to exporters.  
It might be in need of some warning stickers on the package ;)

jens

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