[Zope3-dev] Object Serialization Brainstorm

[Lennart Regebro]

From: "Casey Duncan" <c.duncan@nlada.org>
> The key question is: Is it possible to design the system such that any
> object visible in the ZMI could be arbitrarily (and automatically) 
> transformed or serialized into externally usable XML?

Automatically? I can't see how. Even the example you give is not
possible to do automatically, but require the object to know how to
transform themselves itself into XML. How would you otherwise know that the
data attribute is to be tranformed into a file with an encoding?