Last modified: 2013-03-20 21:33:29 UTC
use first line of dump, contains scheme url, e.g. http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4.xsd
https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/343
This is the wrong solution to the problem, we should be pro-active about monitoring changes to the XML format.
I agree, ideally we would be in the loop on any planned change. But current reality is we are every so often surprised by uncoordinated changes in our environment. So a simple check... call it defensive programming.