[Koha-devel] generic Koha data export format?

Rick Welykochy rick at praxis.com.au
Wed Jun 2 04:18:50 CEST 2010


Reed Wade wrote:

> It seems like it would be fun if there was a nicely generic format
> defined for Koha data dumps. Is it correct that right now this is a DB
> specific task?

This is a good idea, esp. when migrating data.

Two simple, popular and powerful formats come to mind:

1. CSV, directly importable into spreadsheet and database programmes
2. XML, easily handled by MySQL, more transparent than CSV

cheers
rickw


-- 
_________________________________
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services



More information about the Koha-devel mailing list