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On 7/4/12 4:24 AM, MARIA GALEA wrote:
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Hi Steve and the List,

For Maltese Sign Language we have 3 Puddles that have been used - the
Literature, the Dictionary and the Private Puddle.

I would like to organize the entries so I would like to move things to and
from these different Puddles. Is there any way I can do this fast without
having to open each separate entry and copying it into another Puddle and
then deleting it..?

Thanks!
maria

    Hi Maria,

    

    The best option I can think of would be to download and edit the XML
    files directly.  If you downloaded each puddle's XML file, you could
    use a text editor to quickly copy and paste entries between the XML
    documents.

    

    The biggest problem would be that each entry in a puddle must have a
    unique ID number.  If you copied entries from one puddle to another,
    you would have to make sure the IDs were unique.  Looking at 2 of
    the Malta puddles, it looks like all of the IDs are less that
    1,000.  So to copy an entry from one puddle to the other, the safest
    way would be to add 1,000 to the ID numbers.

    

    Here is an example:

    <entry id="2" cdt="1208941776" mdt="1208941776" usr="LSM">

      <term>M518x515S10e00482x485S17610502x499</term>

      <term><![CDATA[GHOXRIN]]></term>

      <term><![CDATA[TWENTY]]></term>

    </entry>

    

    If you wanted to copy this from one puddle to another, you would cut
    it from one XML file and paste it into the other XML making sure to
    change the id="2" to be id="1002".

    

    It's not the most elegant solution, but it could work.  If you want
    to do this, I can work with you.  We would lock the target puddles
    so that they could not be edited.  You would download and update the
    XML files.  Then I could import the new XML files and overwrite the
    puddles.

    

    I can't think of an easier way to do this.

    

    Regards,

    -Steve