import xmlrpclib    
import bz2
import base64

server=xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://127.0.0.1:8080/cdliRoot/cdli')

fh=file("/tmp/fmpxml.xml")
data=base64.encodestring(bz2.compress(fh.read()))
print server.importXMLFile('cdli_cat',data,'id_text')