A couple more thoughts about importing and exporting aggregate batches of document-oriented data.
* A desktop-friendly way to bundle documents is in a ZIP file. Unfortunately that's a binary format, and _list/_external use a JSON (UTF-8) protocol. I see that an _external function can give back base64-encoded binary data: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/ExternalProcesses I don't think _list or _show can, and in any case you'd need a ZIP library written in Javascript. Maybe this is too far out of scope for a JS-backed CouchApp. But with erlview it makes a lot more sense: you have a binary-clean interface, and many libraries available for handling binary formats. e.g. http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/zip.html * The other option I've tried is MIME multipart documents, but in my testing I found that browsers don't handle them well. At best you just get the first one saved. I think that option can be discarded. Regards, Brian.
