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[Carl Leitner <litlfred@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For the CSD and DATIM work, we are highly dependent on the XML representation of the metadata.
Cheers,
-carl 
> On Dec 17, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> xml metadata (specifically for orgunits) is being used in Rwanda.
> 
> Technically it could be changed to use json, but some work would be
> required.  There is an xslt which is applied to the metadata to strip
> some stuff as I recall.
> 
> On 17 December 2015 at 16:29, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I wanted to get an idea of to which degree people use the XML representation
>> of meta-data in Web API.
>> 
>> We see that maintaining XML support for meta-data is getting increasingly
>> costly and complicated, and is slowing down the development. Most Web apps
>> today use the JSON representation, and increasingly integration between
>> systems are using JSON or even CSV.
>> 
>> Would it be acceptable to remove support for XML for meta-data around 2.24
>> for July next year?
>> 
>> With metadata I refer to resources such as data elements, data sets and org
>> units. We will not remove support for XML for data values (data value sets).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> regards,
>> 
>> Lars
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Lars Helge Øverland
>> Lead developer, DHIS 2
>> University of Oslo
>> Skype: larshelgeoverland
>> http://www.dhis2.org
>> 
>> 
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