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

[Fred Drake]

On 3/24/06, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> We've had sucess writing XSLT templates to transform the pickle data
> into formats easily parsable for particular applications.

As part of a recent task (likely the same one Jim's referring to
here!), I transformed the XML export into another XML pickle, but for
a simpler data structure that could be unpickled without dealing with
the application classes.

The CDATA marked sections that held the templates aren't useful for
XML tools, but they do make it somewhat easier to read the pickles
directly (valuable when trying to figure out what a transform is
starting from!).


  -Fred

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