Hoi,
You may want to wait until the dumps are fixed. Magnus fixed the one but
last dump by hand. The following dump is still broken. Wait until we KNOW
the dumps are ok.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 27 October 2014 21:58, Ariel T. Glenn <agl...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Thank you Google for hiding the start of this thread in my spam folder
> >_<
>
> I'm going to have to change my import tools for the new format, but
> that's the way it goes; it's a reasonable change. Have you checked with
> folks on the xml data dumps list to see who might be affected?
>
> Ariel
>
>
> Στις 23-10-2014, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 09:52 -0500, ο/η Aaron Halfaker
> έγραψε:
> > I spend a lot of time processing the XML dumps that this will affect. I
> > just wanted to chime in to say that this change makes sense to me and it
> > won't affect my work.
> >
> > -Aaron
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Daniel Kinzler <dan...@brightbyte.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > tl;dr:
> > >
> > > In the xml dumps, I want to change
> > > <text> <sha1> <model> <format>
> > > to
> > > <model> <format> <text> <sha1>
> > >
> > > However, this is a breaking change to our XML schema.
> > > See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72417
> > >
> > >
> > > Background:
> > >
> > > While trying to fix bug 72361, I ran into an issue with our current XML
> > > dump format:
> > >
> > > The <model> and <format> tags are placed *after* the <text> tag.
> > > This means that we don't know how to handle the text when we process
> XML
> > > events
> > > in a stream - we'd have to buffer the text, wait until we know model
> and
> > > format,
> > > and then process it. A pain.
> > >
> > > The current order has no deeper meaning - it is, indeed, my own fault:
> i
> > > didn't
> > > think this through when adding these tags. I propose to change the
> order
> > > of the
> > > tags now, to make stream processing easier.
> > >
> > > That would technically be a breaking change to the dump format,
> > > incompatible
> > > with <https://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.8.xsd> and
> export-0.9.xsd. I
> > > doubt
> > > however that any consumers rely on the current placement of <model> and
> > > <format>, as it is extremely inconvenient (compare bug 72361), but you
> > > never know.
> > >
> > > I propose to release a new XSD version 0.10 with the order changed, and
> > > mention
> > > it in the release notes. Should be fine.
> > >
> > > Any objections?
> > >
> > > -- daniel
> > >
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