According to export-0.9.xsd, the <model> and <format> tags follow the <text> tag. That is however quite annoying when processing the XML event stream, since it means we do not know how to process the contents of the <text> tag when we receive it. Adding <model> and <format> at the end was simply an oversight on my part when I introduced them.

Outputting these tags before the <text> tag would be simple to do, but would technically be a breaking change to the export format. I see no good way to make this backwards compatible, aside from outputting these tags twice.

As a stop gap, model and format could be included as attributes of the <text> tag. This is however rather inconsistent with the rest of the format, and would also need to be included in a new version of the XSD.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.9.xsd
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72361