User mapping during Cloud import of Confluence Data center export

[Frank Adler]

We cannot use the Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant. However, we were able to successfully import a Data Center export to our Cloud instance. Unfortunately, users were not assigned correctly.
Does anyone have experience in patching the XML export? As far as I can tell, there are data sets binding usernames to UUIDs, but only the UUID is used in the content data itself.

[Jim Knepley - ReleaseTEAM]

Hi @Frank Adler 

I have experience from a few years ago with modifying the XML export. Unfortunately, it's a negative experience. It should be possible, but the export I was trying to update was too large to fit in memory for any XML parser I tried. Also, the XML wasn't always valid, and didn't encode certain entities correctly. If memory serves, it was some Unicode characters, but this was some time ago.

It's a shame you can't use the cloud migration assistant, which solves many of the problems that we struggled with during an XML migration.