Marco Bizzarri wrote at 2008-9-6 08:26 +0200: >I need to generate a large XML file inside a Zope application; the >file is for backup purposes, so it is stored on the server and can be >downloaded later with whatever suitable tool. > >The data are taken from a database, and then they are used to create >the XML. I assume there will be between 40.000 and 100.000 rows to be >dumped. > >I thought i could use page template for this purpose, but I'm not sure >if it is possible to send the output from a pt to a file, directly.
I fear, this is not a supported usecase: The standard page template implementation writes to a "StringIO" object (thus its internal infrastructure is prepared for incremental output generation) but the file to be written to it not controllable from outside. If your XML is not too complex, I would directly generate it (and not go through a PageTemplate). -- Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
