X-Git-Url: https://git.phdru.name/?p=extfs.d.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=xml-ANNOUNCE;h=50393e7c42159484971390bdd9bdb197abf0f086;hp=d77b2df29a98b1ba21c06855e19f7f3c36e212a7;hb=5f4fcda7c63d3645f32c6866bb42dd2399f8f75a;hpb=4995fb5d630f06f5035c91dfb800d643bb0190fa diff --git a/xml-ANNOUNCE b/xml-ANNOUNCE index d77b2df..50393e7 100644 --- a/xml-ANNOUNCE +++ b/xml-ANNOUNCE @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ 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). @@ -23,13 +26,16 @@ WHAT'S NEW in version 0.3.0 (2013-11-16) 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 @@ -38,6 +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