Editing API:bin/import subjects (section)

==FILE FORMAT==
There are two different file formats excepted, the default colon seperated file and XML in the eprints export format. 

The colon seperated ASCII is easier to edit, but is more limited. It is not  intended for UTF-8 encoded characters and can only specify subject names in the default language. 

The XML format can contain any unicode characters and also allows multiple languages for the names of subjects. You may wish to dump the current subjects out of eprints as XML. Edit it. Then re-import it. The downside is that this format is far more verbose.

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===The ASCII Default Format===
This is the default format. 

Comments may be placed on lines begining with a hash (#)

Each (non-comment) line of the file should be in the following format:

<em>subjectid</em>:<em>name</em>:<em>parents</em>:<em>depositable</em>

eg.

blgc-bphy:Biophysics:blgc,phys:1

Please see the main documentation for the meaning of these fields.

* '''subjectid''' 
: An ASCII string which is a unique ID for this subject.

* '''name''' 
: The name of this subject, in the default language of the repository.

* '''parents''' 
: A comma seperated list of the parents of this subject. Be careful not to cause loops. The top level subject id is ROOT and should not be imported as it always exists.

* '''depositable''' 
: A boolean value ( 1 or 0 ) which indicates if this subject may have eprints associated with it. 

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===The XML File Format===
This is the standard eprints export format. It looks like this:

<pre>  &lt;eprintsdata&gt;
    &lt;record&gt;
      &lt;field name="subjectid"&gt;phys&lt;/field&gt;
      &lt;field name="name"&gt;&lt;lang id="en"&gt;Physical Sciences &amp;amp; Mathematics&lt;/lang&gt;&lt;/field&gt;
      &lt;field name="parents"&gt;subjects&lt;/field&gt;
      &lt;field name="depositable"&gt;FALSE!/field!
    &lt;/record&gt;
    .
    .
    .
  &lt;/eprintsdata&gt;</pre>

The fields have the same meaning as described for the ASCII format, with the following variations. The name field can (and should) have a name for each language supported by the repository. Multiple parents are indicated by multiple <code>&lt;lt</code>field name="parents&lt;gt&gt;&gt; elements. Depositable should be either TRUE or FALSE.

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