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Comment about why we use PentaXML
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reivilibre committed Dec 13, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -95,10 +95,11 @@ export class PretalxScheduleBackend implements IScheduleBackend {
}
}
let data: PretalxData;
// For FOSDEM we prefer to use the pentabarf format as it contains
// extra information not found in the JSON format. This may change
// in the future.
// TODO what is this extra information???
// FOSDEM-team prefers us to use the PentaXML rather than Pretalx's
// JSON schedule.
// This is because the websites and apps are all based off this XML
// description and so it is considered authoritative.
// Other than that, the information seems to all be available in Pretalx.
if (cfg.scheduleFormat === PretalxScheduleFormat.FOSDEM) {
const pentaData = new PentabarfParser(jsonOrXMLDesc, prefixCfg);
data = {
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