View an XML file in Midnight Commander as a filesystem.
+WHAT'S NEW in version 1.1.0 (2013-11-26)
+ Show comment(s) before the root element.
+
WHAT'S NEW in version 1.0.0 (2013-11-23)
With lxml.etree-based implementation show only child namespaces
(calculated as combined namespaces minus parent's namespaces).
WHERE TO GET
- Home page: http://phdru.name/Software/mc/
+ Home page: http://phdru.name/Software/mc/xml.html
+ Download: http://phdru.name/Software/mc/xml
git clone http://git.phdru.name/extfs.d.git
- git clone git://git.phdru.name/extfs.d.git
+ git clone git://git.phdru.name/extfs.d.git
+
+ Installation instructions: http://phdru.name/Software/mc/INSTALL.html
The VFS represents tags as directories; the directories are numbered to
-distinguish tags with the same name; also numbering helps to sort tags by their
+distinguish tags with the same name; numbering also helps to sort tags by their
order in XML instead of sorting them by name. Attributes, text nodes and
comments are represented as text files; attributes are shown in a file named
"attributes", attributes are listed in the file as name=value lines (I
collected in a file named "text", stripped and reencoded. The filesystem is
read-only.
+Implementation based on minidom doesn't understand namespaces, it just shows
+them among other attributes. ElementTree-based implementation doesn't show
+namespaces at all. Implementation based on lxml.etree shows namespaces in a
+separate file "namespaces".
+
It is useful to have a top-down view on an XML structure but it's especially
convenient to extract text values from tags. One can get, for example, a
base64-encoded image - just walk down the VFS to the tag's directory and copy
projects / extfs.d.git / blobdiff