Phillipe and all,<br><br>I don't have the development skills to help on this one... but I promise to be a tester as things get rolling. I totally support the urgency/importance of this work.<br><br>+1<br><br>I was talking with Angie Byron about this at the Portland Lullabot workshop. She noted that data migration modules have a hard time staying current because developers get interested in them when they (desperately) need the functionality and then lose interest when they are finished with a large migration of data.<br>
<br>As Drupal grows, it seems likely there would be enough work for a consulting firm to specialize in data migration to Drupal. Other Drupal shops would likely be thrilled to sub out that piece of the work. So I do think there is hope for the future. Thanks for taking leadership on this.<br>
<br>Shai<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/25/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Philippe Jadin</b> <<a href="mailto:philippe.jadin@gmail.com">philippe.jadin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>In trying to fix <a href="http://drupal.org/node/191197#comment-705056">http://drupal.org/node/191197#comment-705056</a> (allow<br>to import nodes in batch), I feel a bit sorry for the status of the<br>various import export solutions in Drupal.<br>
<br>- importexportapi is somewhat dead<br>- node import only accepts to import everything at once, and does not<br>provide duplicate checking<br>- feed parser api and feed mapper seems to be a brighter future, but<br>do not allow everything node import / importexportapi does<br>
<br><br>So I'm wondering where to put my efforts. I'm trying to import 20.000<br>contacts as cck nodes, and allow user to reimport the same contacts<br>and update the existing nodes, all with a nice import/export<br>
interface.<br><br>I think the first step would be to have standardized import / export<br>format for a Drupal node, maybe xml based (I think there is a xml<br>format for books only), with support for cck, taxonomy, and all.<br>
<br>This is a very complex problem, but I think it's important for Drupal,<br>as an open platform, to provide excellent import/export tools.<br><br>Which module has the greatest chance to provide a solid base? Is there<br>
a standard node xml (or some other format) representation? I'd like to<br>spend time on a somewhat future proof solution.<br><br>Any help would be greatly appreciated<br><br>Philippe<br></blockquote></div><br>