Loading data to mint with XML feed

[Harry Sidhunata]

Hi All

 

On the Mint documentation about loading the data, it only shows how to load the data with CSV feed to Mint.

Is it possible if the feed is in XML?

Could anyone provide me information on how to do it or what need to be done?

 

 

 

Best regards,

 

Harry

 

 

 

Harry R. Sidhunata

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[Duncan Dickinson]

Hi Harry,

In order to harvest XML you'll need to create an XML harvester plugin. There are OAI-PMH, SKOS and SOLR-Marc harvesters that may be of interest to you.

Harvesters aren't overly difficult to write - they just implement the Harvester interface (https://dev.redboxresearchdata.com.au/jenkins/view/Clean%20builds/job/The%20Fascinator%20-%20Clean%20Build/javadoc/?). We don't have a generic XML harvester but a number of plugins can be found at https://github.com/organizations/the-fascinator-contrib & https://github.com/the-fascinator/the-fascinator/tree/master/plugins/harvester that you can customise as needed. 

The Fascinator's documentation may also assist you (http://sites.google.com/site/fascinatorhome/) - one of my jobs over the next few weeks is to update that doco as it points to older systems.

Thinking about an XML harvester, we have always ended up with a specific harvester for a certain type of XML schema - a generic model never seemed to happen. Perhaps a model such as the one used in the ReDBox alerts system (http://www.redboxresearchdata.com.au/documentation/system-administration/administering-redbox/configuring-alerts) is useful. The config could contain an XPath mapping file that allows for the easy configuration of the harvest (much like in CSV).

I'd be interested in hearing about your scope (how many files, standards etc) as this would be a useful plugin.

* https://dev.redboxresearchdata.com.au/jenkins/view/Clean%20builds/job/The%20Fascinator%20-%20Clean%20Build/javadoc/?

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[Harry Sidhunata]

Hi Duncan,

Thanks for the reply and the information.
I will to check on the links that you provided.

About the XML feed, It contains Party information exported from UNSW Human Resources System.
The feed does not use any standards.

[Duncan Dickinson]

Hi Harry,

In that case a generic XML Harvester may be the way to go. The harvester would be similar to the CSV one (multiple records in one file) but using an XML parser. If you have a reasonably "flat" xml format that could be reasonably easy:

<people>
<person><name>A</name></person>
...
</people>

If it was more involved, an XPath mapping config option might be useful in drawing out the elements/sub-elements needed. 

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[Duncan Dickinson]

Hi Harry,

I was wondering how you got along with this? 

Cheers,

Duncan

On 14 January 2013 15:45, Harry Sidhunata <h.sid...@unsw.edu.au> wrote:

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