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[Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bob - thanks for your detailed explanation. Because we use naming
conventions, we wanted to filter on the basis of name. 'WHP - ' is the
prefix that we were planning to use to locate quickly what we wanted to
export, and just moved into the one that can be exported.

We want/ need to export the following elements:
1. Data Elements - we can certainly put them in a a group if that speed-up
things. This is the critical one.
2. Category Combos, Categories and associated options. We can certainly
rebuild them
3. Form with sections. That will be nice !

R




On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Rodolfo
>
> The old metadata export used a very manually crafted parser for a language
> called dxf 1.0 which was past its sell-by date and becoming hard to
> maintain.
>
> The newer metadata export uses dxf 2.0 which is a much more complete
> reflection of the domain objects but I note it doesn't allow the selection
> of particular dataelement groups or indicator groups.
>
> We will be working on some functionality to export the selection of all
> metadata which might be related to a particular group of indicators, but
> that is coming.
>
> In the meantime if there is particular filtering you want to do of the
> full metadata dump then share on this list and I (or someone else) can
> probably help with an xslt transform you could use which would be
> infinitely beter than editing manually.
>
> If you are wanting to edit then there a number of approaches.  The oxygen
> xml editor is by far the best in my view but sadly not free.  emacs (nxml
> mode) works really well even on mac and windows but is not for everybody.
>  For working with xml from the mac or windows shell, then libxml from
> http://www.xmlsoft.org/ comes with the handy xmllint tool which can do
> lots of things, but one of the most useful is to "pretty print" format the
> xml.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> On 8 April 2013 19:20, Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> ... is gone
>>
>> Hi - 2.10 as well as early development releases of 2.11 had an 'DXF
>> Detailed Metadata Export' option. This function allowed to specify what
>> Data Elements and Indicators to export. It was great for prototyping
>> something in one server, and then moving the final definitions to another
>> box. The final release of 2.11 doesn't have that option anymore. I curios
>> to learn why the functionality was axed - i suspect some technical reasons
>> relating to the explicit use of UID across the new version.
>>
>> So if that function is not coming back, what is the best strategy for
>> moving metadata from one instance to another? I imagine the answer is using
>> an XML editor  and editing the export XML that you get from the metadata
>> export option. Is that the case? Any suggestions of good XML editors that
>> allow to read the resulting XML by a human being, so you can be selective
>> about what you are moving between boxes? I'm looking for a Mac editor, and
>> a Windows editor.
>>
>> Rodolfo
>>
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rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx
www.knowming.com
+1 708 872 7636
+44 777 576 4090
Skype: rod.melia
Twitter: @RodolfoMelia <https://twitter.com/RodolfoMelia>

Note: Please note my new email address, which I will be using for PSI
related work: rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx