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Kirill Bondar  Staff  8/19/2010 5:15:36 AM

BUGtrack backup tool gets the data via the API in XML format and produces the output via XSL transformation: the default, html.xsl, is provided in a package. You can use custom XSL transformation to produce output in a format you want: provide the path to your file via -xsl option of btbackup.

The transformation below can be used to dump the XML data as-is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="@* | node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Justin Willey 8/19/2010 8:00:44 AM

Many thanks for that Kirill - I tried it and it works fine - I now get individual xml files for each bug in the year / month / day folder structure. I was really hoping to get a single xml file - but I supose that that is dictated by the exe, not the xsl.

Kirill Bondar  Staff  8/19/2010 8:44:10 AM

That's what we have started from - the backup process was implemented via web query functionality. Then we encountered the problem - resulting XML including all the issues, their comments and attachments was often few gigabytes in size and took hours to download. You can still perform a web query, but attachments are not included there anymore.

btbackup does the job in more sophisticated way, checking what issues were changed since last backup and downloading updates issue by issue.

Justin Willey 8/19/2010 8:51:35 AM

That's fine - if I want a single file I can always parse the index.xml file and use that to assemble a new file from the individual bug files. Many thanks for your help.