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  2. ABOUT

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  5. This module makes it possible to import and export vocabularies and 

  6. taxonomy terms via XML and other syntaxes. It requires taxonomy.module.

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  8. EXPORTING VOCABULARIES

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  11. Once installed and enabled, this module provides a list of downloadable 

  12. XML documents for each vocabulary at admin/content/taxonomy/export. 

  13. Home Ý Administer Ý Content management > Categories [Export]

  14. You can choose the format from the list displayed there.

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  16. IMPORTING A VOCABULARY

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  19. To import a vocabulary, use admin/content/taxonomy/import.

  20. Home Ý Administer Ý Content management > Categories [Import]

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  23. Several formats of vocabulary are supported. The original drupal-taxonomy_xml

  24. specific format is defined in the schama file taxonomy.xsd.

  25. Some knowledge of XML validation will be required to create your own 

  26. taxonomy_xml file from scratch, but this format is most often used to export 

  27. from one Drupal site and transfer it to another.

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  29. To import from other sources, you will probably find it easier to import from

  30. CSV or other format. These formats are described in the file formats.html

  31. you should find in the module directory.

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  33. The 'samples' folder contains a few samples of the various formats. 

  34. The file "sample.xml" is a sample XML-formatted vocabulary that can 

  35. be used for testing purposes. It contains a vocabulary named "Editorial 

  36. sections" that contains four terms: "Analysis," "Feature," "News" and 

  37. "Opinion." Using the options available from admin/taxonomy/import, you

  38. can either add those terms to an existing vocabulary, or create a new

  39. "Editorial sections" vocabulary on your site.

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  41. THEORY

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  44. Please see the document theory.html for more information about how storing and

  45. communication of taxonomies between different systems currently and could work.