From b6ee71b34fb402181ea0aa92ed640478ec7d4e83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Broytman Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:17:22 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add a paragraph why it's useful --- xml | 5 +++++ xml-ANNOUNCE | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/xml b/xml index 9ae6422..7164c14 100755 --- a/xml +++ b/xml @@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ 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. +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 +its text file to a real file. + The VFS was inspired by a FUSE xmlfs: https://github.com/halhen/xmlfs """ diff --git a/xml-ANNOUNCE b/xml-ANNOUNCE index d6d59c2..c1834b2 100644 --- a/xml-ANNOUNCE +++ b/xml-ANNOUNCE @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ 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. +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 +its text file to a real file. + The VFS was inspired by a FUSE xmlfs: https://github.com/halhen/xmlfs -- 2.39.2