Last modified: 2013-06-18 16:58:18 UTC
Please add the namespace of a page when export. It is very hard to determine the namespace of a title. It is better when MediaWiki can give the right number inside the export/dump. function openPage in Export.php has the full row of page_table, so the namespace information is there. Please add the information to the output. Thanks.
Created attachment 7740 [details] add ns to title-tag The attached patch add a "ns" attribute to the title tag.
The dump preamble includes the full list of content namespace prefixes in the <siteinfo> section, which makes it a pretty straightforward string comparison. Adding a namespace attribute on the <page>'s <title> wouldn't hurt terribly, but would be redundant and could cause confusion if xml dump files are edited in some way such that the namespaces no longer match. Would require update to the .xsd schema file as well. May require updates to other dump processing infrastructure to maintain it through bulk data dumps, otherwise it's not of much use.
(In reply to comment #2) > The dump preamble includes the full list of content namespace prefixes in the > <siteinfo> section, which makes it a pretty straightforward string comparison. > Adding a namespace attribute on the <page>'s <title> wouldn't hurt terribly, > but would be redundant and could cause confusion if xml dump files are edited > in some way such that the namespaces no longer match. > Would require update to the .xsd schema file as well. > May require updates to other dump processing infrastructure to maintain it > through bulk data dumps, otherwise it's not of much use. String comparison can be expensive (depends on language) and you have also to check with a colon after the namespace to avoid false namespace (a page named "Template Test" is not a template). If you find, that this is redundant and each dump user can find the namespace himself, than WONTFIX this, it is only a idea for easy work with the dump.
fixed with r102575
