On 25 Jan 2010, at 06:18, Alexander Klimetschek wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 22:38, Rakesh Vidyadharan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The current import/export system does not preserve multi-values properties 
>> when they happen to have only a single value.  This causes some issues when 
>> we work with known node structures, and where our application logic always 
>> ensures that a certain property is always created as multi-value.  The fix 
>> is easy enough (always check and delete and recreate if necessary), but is 
>> still inconvenient and counter intuitive.  Are there any plans to preserve 
>> the node definitions while exporting?
> 
> Did you use document or system view? In system view it should work,
> but for document view round-tripping cannot be guaranteed, as things
> like multi-value properties don't map natively onto XML.
> 
> See also this enhancement issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-325
> 
> Regards,
> Alex

I used the system view.  You can see the exporter code at 
http://kenai.com/projects/jcrmanager/sources/svn/content/trunk/src/app/com/sptci/jcr/webui/listener/menu/NodeExportListener.java?rev=48
 (line 99).

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