X-Git-Url: https://git.phdru.name/?p=extfs.d.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=xml-ANNOUNCE;h=50393e7c42159484971390bdd9bdb197abf0f086;hp=8595910c75ff7c2ee4ec7342c899150d08851c01;hb=5f4fcda7c63d3645f32c6866bb42dd2399f8f75a;hpb=db63b272c4064cfc541f89f70aa8354ee6920905 diff --git a/xml-ANNOUNCE b/xml-ANNOUNCE index 8595910..50393e7 100644 --- a/xml-ANNOUNCE +++ b/xml-ANNOUNCE @@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ WHAT IS IT 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). + WHAT'S NEW in version 0.6.0 (2013-11-22) Refactored _list() and attrs2text() to be completely generic. @@ -15,16 +22,20 @@ WHAT'S NEW in version 0.4.0 (2013-11-19) Added ElementTree-based implementation. WHAT'S NEW in version 0.3.0 (2013-11-16) - Initial release. + Initial release. Implementation based on minidom. WHERE TO GET - Master site: http://phdru.name/Software/mc/ - A mirror: http://phdru.cu.cc/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 + + 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 @@ -33,6 +44,11 @@ values are reencoded to the console encoding. Text nodes and comments are 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