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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
