Moodle in English: glossary import: XML structure?

Hi,

Can someone pls enlighten me as to what the structure of the xml file should look like? I've been searching all over but could find nothing about what the XML structure should look like.

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Re: glossary import: XML structure?

by David Fountain - Friday, 31 October 2008, 8:07 PM

Hi Julian
You could do what I did when I created an Excel spreadsheet to create the XML file;

Create a glossary
Export it
Have a look.

Or take a peak at the spreadsheet, it's a simple VBA and should point you in the right direction.

Dave

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Re: glossary import: XML structure?

by NN NN - Friday, 31 October 2008, 8:17 PM

Doh!

Sometimes I can be such a dork, lol

Thanks, David.

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Re: glossary import: XML structure?

by trish sutherland - Monday, 10 November 2008, 9:16 PM

thanks for posting that David, It really helped me import a glossary.

I have a further question. The glossary i want to import has concept, definition, and then an example, which we'd decided would be put in the 'keywords' section. Can i import the keywords along with the concept and definition or do i have to add them in manually - the spreadsheet you posted had nothing for keywords, don't know if i'm missing something!

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Re: glossary import: XML structure?

by trish sutherland - Monday, 10 November 2008, 9:30 PM

doh! the power of posting!!! I've figured it out now - the keyword is the alias.

thanks for the spreadsheet thing, it's a real help

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Re: glossary import: XML structure?

by David Fountain - Monday, 10 November 2008, 10:14 PM

Yes lol big grin

Often been the case with my postings...my record is 2 minutes after posting!

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Re: glossary import: XML structure?

by jeff ciaccio - Sunday, 6 December 2009, 12:23 AM

Sorry - I guess I'm a little slower than most. Can you please help me understand the xml macro? I see the headings, but what goes in each of these?

Definition
Format
Usedynalink
Casesensitive
fullmatch
Category

I have a spreadsheet with question (string), answer (float), and I would like to set the tolerace to 0.005.

Don't I need to know the headings Moodle is expecting?

Can this be used to generate calculated questions, shared/private datasets, etc?

For example, it I wanted to create 50 questions like the following, what would I need to do?

Question: If you travel {dist} m in {time} s, what is your average speed in m/s?
category = "simple speed calculations".
{dist}: 20.0 to 200.0, 1 decimal, private dataset, 50 new values
{time}: 20.0to 200.0, 1 decimal, public dataset, 50 shared values
answer: {dist}/{time}
tolerance: 0.005
answer shows: 3 significant figures

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