Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
I can see no way to improve the XML export without breaking backwards compatibility as WXR is so far from XML. It is also impossible to change the version in the URI you use as a namespace, as currently even unknown major versions are attempted to be parsed.
How would making it better-formed break backward compatibility, in practice? We can be liberal in what we accept, conservative in what we output.
Any patches to improve our output are always welcome - I know we're far from perfect in the content we output sometimes but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to be.
BTW Movable Type has a well-working WXR importer (or so they claim) so obviously it isn't impossible to make something else work from it.
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