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 <bobjolli...@gmail.com> 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 <rme...@knowming.com> 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 >> >> -- >> *Rodolfo Meliá* >> *Principal* >> rme...@knowming.com >> 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: rme...@knowming.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > -- *Rodolfo Meliá* *Principal* rme...@knowming.com 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: rme...@knowming.com
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