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Why are product import and export formats different?

Why are product import and export formats different?

anybody know why Magento uses a different data export format for products than for importing? Export format lumps all custom attributes into a single text field called additonal_attributes where all the custom attributes are dumped, separated by commas. Importing same data requires unique columns. Just curious.

 

Export format:

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