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

[Jim Fulton]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
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> On 24 Mar 2006, at 16:07, Jim Fulton wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.

Jim

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