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

[Dennis Allison]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Jim Fulton wrote:

> Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> > I propose to deprecate XML export/import for Zope 2.10 and to remove it 
> > in Zope 2.12. We don't loose any functionality since .zexp is working 
> > fine. I don't know of any active projects/code that really uses XML 
> > export/import.
> > 
> > Comments?

I filed a bug report (2051:  xml import export fail) which was triggered 
by the need to move material from a recent zope (2.9) to an older zope 
(2.7.4) where the zexp format was incompatible.  Eventually, I was able 
to make the XML work.