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

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 24 Mar 2006, at 16:30, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> 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 ;)
>
> Can you give an example of a first-class exporter?  I'm not aware
> of a general solution.  I guess there are solutions based on  
> Archetypes.
> It should definately be advertized for what it is, but it is certainly
> much more than I realized in the past.

That was just a metaphor. For me, only the standard binary zexp  
exporter qualifies as "first class" exporter at the moment because it  
"just works". Apart from esoteric use cases like importing data into  
older ZODB implementations, which is highly questionable IMHO.

jens

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