1 XML Virtual FileSystem for Midnight Commander
5 View an XML file in Midnight Commander as a filesystem.
8 WHAT'S NEW in version 0.5.0 (2013-11-19)
9 Added lxml.etree-based implementation.
11 WHAT'S NEW in version 0.4.0 (2013-11-19)
12 Added ElementTree-based implementation.
14 WHAT'S NEW in version 0.3.0 (2013-11-16)
19 Master site: http://phdru.name/Software/mc/
20 A mirror: http://phdru.cu.cc/Software/mc/
23 The VFS represents tags as directories; the directories are numbered to
24 distinguish tags with the same name; also numbering helps to sort tags by their
25 order in XML instead of sorting them by name. Attributes, text nodes and
26 comments are represented as text files; attributes are shown in a file named
27 "attributes", attributes are listed in the file as name=value lines (I
28 deliberately ignore a small chance of newline characters in values); names and
29 values are reencoded to the console encoding. Text nodes and comments are
30 collected in a file named "text", stripped and reencoded. The filesystem is
33 It is useful to have a top-down view on an XML structure but it's especially
34 convenient to extract text values from tags. One can get, for example, a
35 base64-encoded image - just walk down the VFS to the tag's directory and copy
36 its text file to a real file.
38 The VFS was inspired by a FUSE xmlfs: https://github.com/halhen/xmlfs
42 Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name>
45 Copyright (C) 2013 PhiloSoft Design