The creation of the Wacs Model XML files is the task of the wacsexport command. This is currently only available as a command line application, although in the future we plan to include an XML download option somewhere in the Wacs system. To export a model's data as XML, you basically just run wacsexport followed by the model number. Thus if you want model number 18 exported, you would type:

% wacsexport 18
%

This will create an XML file in the current directory called the model's name, a hyphen and then the model number. If Sabrina is model no 18 on your Wacs server, then a file called Sabrina-18.xml will have been created.

wacsexport accepts only one modifier argument which is --noimages which instructs it not to include any images in the output. Normally it will include both headshot icons within the XML file. This option is to remove any copyrighted images for which you do not have re-distribution rights for prior to posting to the internet, etc.

The XML file contains details of a specific model including her model record, head shot icon in both normal and big forms if available, idmap records and the download records for all her sets that have a known source. This file has the binary data (typically both of the headshot icons) encoded in base 64 so that it can be safely emailed, cut-and-pasted, etc.