1 XML Virtual FileSystem for Midnight Commander
5 View an XML file in Midnight Commander as a filesystem.
9 Version 1.1.2 (2015-01-10)
10 Changed link to installation instructions.
12 Version 1.1.1 (2014-07-17)
13 Fix a bug in removing excessive namespaces (lxml).
15 Version 1.1.0 (2013-11-26)
16 Show comment(s) before the root element.
18 Version 1.0.0 (2013-11-23)
19 With lxml.etree-based implementation show only child namespaces
20 (calculated as combined namespaces minus parent's namespaces).
22 Version 0.3.0 (2013-11-16)
23 Initial release. Implementation based on minidom.
27 Home page: http://phdru.name/Software/mc/xml.html
28 Download: http://phdru.name/Software/mc/xml
29 git clone http://git.phdru.name/extfs.d.git
30 git clone git://git.phdru.name/extfs.d.git
32 Installation instructions: http://phdru.name/Software/mc/INSTALL.html
35 The VFS represents tags as directories; the directories are numbered to
36 distinguish tags with the same name; numbering also helps to sort tags by their
37 order in XML instead of sorting them by name. Attributes, text nodes and
38 comments are represented as text files; attributes are shown in a file named
39 "attributes", attributes are listed in the file as name=value lines (I
40 deliberately ignore a small chance of newline characters in values); names and
41 values are reencoded to the console encoding. Text nodes and comments are
42 collected in a file named "text", stripped and reencoded. The filesystem is
45 Implementation based on minidom doesn't understand namespaces, it just shows
46 them among other attributes. ElementTree-based implementation doesn't show
47 namespaces at all. Implementation based on lxml.etree shows namespaces in a
48 separate file "namespaces".
50 It is useful to have a top-down view on an XML structure but it's especially
51 convenient to extract text values from tags. One can get, for example, a
52 base64-encoded image - just walk down the VFS to the tag's directory and copy
53 its text file to a real file.
55 The VFS was inspired by a FUSE xmlfs: https://github.com/halhen/xmlfs
59 Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name>
62 Copyright (C) 2013-2015 PhiloSoft Design