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Simon-Initiative / course-digest

Tool to produce a summary or digest of OLI course package contents
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Summarize the differences between different versions of legacy DTD files #20

Closed darrensiegel closed 2 years ago

darrensiegel commented 2 years ago

Some legacy courses contain resources (workbook pages, inline assessments) that are still using previous (i.e., older) versions of their respective DTDs. These different versions vary the structure of the XML sometimes in some considerable ways. We need an analysis done that can summarize the ways in which different versions of a DTD change over time, so that we can understand how this will impact the course migration effort and the course-digest tool itself.

The DTDs that are of interest are:

  1. A2 (oli_assessment_2_4.dtd)
  2. Inline (oli_inline_assessment_1_4.dtd)
  3. Learning content (oli_learning_content_3_8.dtd)
  4. Workbook page (oli_workbook_page_3_8)

For each of the above DTDs, we need a summarization of the delta between their latest version (listed above) and the most recent version.

darrensiegel commented 2 years ago

@rgachuhi Is there perhaps any tooling or support in the OLI Legacy codebase that can convert older versions of a DTD to a new version?

rgachuhi commented 2 years ago

@rgachuhi Is there perhaps any tooling or support in the OLI Legacy codebase that can convert older versions of a DTD to a new version?

Unfortunately, Legacy OLI has no such tooling. Converting a resource from older versions of a DTD to a new version is a manual process, usually undertaken on a PRN basis. The legacy system has no problem with this since it already supports backward DTD versions.