[Mediawiki-l] Import/Export status ?

[Sebastien BARRE]

Hi,

Could you guys please give me an update of the Import/Export pages status ?
So far Export seems to be enabled in 1.3/1.4. Export is disabled in 1.3.
Is there some Export code out there (in 1.5 ?) that I could safely move/use 
to my 1.3 ? (yes I know it would be experimental).

I'm kinda working from time to time on an extension that would be a 
front-end to import/export. Basically it renders a form where you can 
add/combine search conditions, and the extension finds the pages matching 
those conditions (say, all pages matching a give title pattern, or pages 
that have been contributed by a given author, or pages that were last 
contributed a given time ago, or pages belonging to one or more 
template/category, etc.). That part is done. Then it feeds the list of 
pages to the current Export special page. It will also find all medias used 
by those pages, and allow the user to create a Zip archive with the 
exported page (an XML file), and the medias.

But I need the Import part now to feed the XML file to ;) I assumed I could 
detect the Wikimedia version, and use the special Import page if it exists, 
and if not, defaults to some code that would be a copy of something working 
in 1.5 ?

Thanks

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Sebastien Barre