Re: [Gramps-devel] [Gramps-bugs] Bug in Export Raw

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Doug Blank <dou...@gm...> wrote:

> 4) What would be more useful now is an "idempotent" XML export. That
> is, if one could export -> import -> export, do a diff between before
> and after, and there would be no differences, then we could have some
> assurance that all data made the round trip. Currently, that doesn't
> quite work. I'm working on that.

I've made a change in trunk in the XML export: all main objects are
sorted on their handles, and then written out [1]. This should have
minimal impact on export, but allows diffs made on XML files to be
much more useful. For example, a diff should now show only real
changes to the data. Also useful
for checking regressions.

Things to consider: 1) change all exports to do the same; 2) does this
fix all of the irrelevant orderings? 3) Change example Gramps XMLs in
trunk to be in handle-order for regression testing.

-Doug

[1] - http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=4365

> -Doug
>