Inside Collection (Course): Comparative Phonology Using Wordcorr
Summary: Export XML puts out all the data in a collection, and all the analytical views you are working on. Sometimes you want to export only one view, or only the metadata that lets other linguists know your work exists.
You will probably use Export XML (from the File menu) every day to back up your work. Exported files also serve as your main mode of communicating what you are doing to your colleagues. They contain
But you may want to send only one of your analytical views along with the metadata and data. Export View XML, also on the File menu, lets you do that. It exports the view you are in when you invoke it, and ignores other views (except the Original view, because every collection has to have an Original view or Wordcorr won't work right).
There's a related Export command, Export Metadata XML. It's intended to pass along just the metadata for you, your collection, and the varieties in the collection. But it also includes the data and some other things.
So it's best to ignore it until we clarify what we really need to do with it. Sorry for now.