[Zope3-dev] XMLed ZODB

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:49, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Garrett Smith]
> > Is there a way to configure the ZODB in Zope 3 to using XML pickling?
> 
> Nope, and regardless of ZODB or Zope version.  ZODB not only uses cPickle
> pickles, it uses undocumented features of cPickle (for maximum efficiency).

Although ZODB4 restricts its use of cPickle to zodb.serialize.  In
principle, you could replace that module and provide a different
serialization layer.  I'd like to make it easier to slot in different
serialization layers, but it's not a high priority.

Jeremy