[Bodington-developers] Status report on IMS CP import and export

[Peter C. <Pet...@me...>]

I have code in the XML repository that now reads namespaces on import
and preserves namespaces on export.  A remaining gotcha is that the
metadata-aware part of the import is not namespace-aware, so gets very
confused when it sees "imsmd:record" rather than "record" for metadata.
I'm in the process of fixing this so that it is namespace-aware, but so
that we don't lose compatibility with pre-namespace content packages.
This is a can of worms; we will need a considerably larger can for the
contents now that it has been opened.

I suspect other examples of CP-related code that should be
namespace-aware and isn't will come to light during the testing that
will no doubt be put into the CP import/export before 2.6 is released.
We need to track them as defects; I'll fix the ones that are
specifically to do with CP.

		- Peter

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