Change the export from .xml

[brandonbr1]

so .xml is older than .html which is the newest format having it as .html making it look better and newer and some hosting only allow .html .xml is old

i just changed the .extension from .xtml to .html witch is the newest web standard

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55394#ticket

i just changed the .extension from .xtml to .html witch is the newest web standard

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55394#ticket

[costdev]

Hi @brandonbr1, welcome to Trac!

While HTML is the modern markup format for display, the Export feature is not intended for display, but for exporting data that can be easily imported into another WordPress installation.

The Export feature uses an XML file in WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) format to achieve this.

See the description on the Tools > Export screen:

When you click the button below WordPress will create an XML file for you to save to your computer.

This format, which we call WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR, will contain your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags.

Once you’ve saved the download file, you can use the Import function in another WordPress installation to import the content from this site.

(emphasis mine)

As the existing format is fit for this purpose, whereas HTML is not, I propose that we close this proposed enhancement as wontfix.

[johnbillion]

Thanks for the report @brandonbr1 and welcome to WordPress Trac.

As Colin points out above this is not an HTML file but an XML file, therefore the extension is correct.

Cheers!