1 XML Virtual FileSystem for Midnight Commander
5 View an XML file in Midnight Commander as a filesystem.
9 Version 1.1.5 (2015-07-08)
10 Set directories/files date/time to the last modification time of the XML
13 Version 1.1.4 (2015-03-21)
14 Minor documentation update.
16 Version 1.1.3 (2015-03-14)
17 Fix a minor bug in handling namespaces (lxml).
19 Version 1.1.2 (2015-01-10)
20 Changed link to installation instructions.
22 Version 1.1.1 (2014-07-17)
23 Fix a bug in removing excessive namespaces (lxml).
25 Version 1.1.0 (2013-11-26)
26 Show comment(s) before the root element.
28 Version 1.0.0 (2013-11-23)
29 With lxml.etree-based implementation show only child namespaces
30 (calculated as combined namespaces minus parent's namespaces).
32 Version 0.3.0 (2013-11-16)
33 Initial release. Implementation based on minidom.
37 Home page: http://phdru.name/Software/mc/xml.html
38 Download: http://phdru.name/Software/mc/xml
39 git clone http://git.phdru.name/extfs.d.git
40 git clone git://git.phdru.name/extfs.d.git
42 Installation instructions: http://phdru.name/Software/mc/INSTALL.html
45 The VFS represents tags as directories; the directories are numbered to
46 distinguish tags with the same name; numbering also helps to sort tags by their
47 order in XML instead of sorting them by name and prevents name clash when tag
48 names coincide with the names of special files used by XML VFS. Attributes,
49 text nodes and comments are represented as text files; attributes are shown in
50 a file named "attributes", attributes are listed in the file as name=value
51 lines (I deliberately ignore a small chance of newline characters in values);
52 names and values are reencoded to the console encoding. Text nodes and comments
53 are collected in a file named "text", stripped and reencoded. The filesystem is
56 Implementation based on minidom doesn't understand namespaces, it just shows
57 them among other attributes. ElementTree-based implementation doesn't show
58 namespaces at all. Implementation based on lxml.etree shows namespaces in a
59 separate file "namespaces".
61 It is useful to have a top-down view on an XML structure but it's especially
62 convenient to extract text values from tags. One can get, for example, a
63 base64-encoded image - just walk down the VFS to the tag's directory and copy
64 its text file to a real file.
66 The VFS was inspired by a FUSE xmlfs: https://github.com/halhen/xmlfs
70 Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name>
73 Copyright (C) 2013-2015 PhiloSoft Design