Hello! I'm pleased to announce an XML Virtual FileSystem for Midnight Commander version 1.0.1. WHAT IS IT View an XML file in Midnight Commander as a filesystem. WHAT'S NEW in version 1.0.1 (2013-11-24) Fixed a few minor bugs. 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. WHAT'S NEW in version 0.5.0 (2013-11-19) Added lxml.etree-based implementation. 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. Implementation based on minidom. WHERE TO GET 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; 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 deliberately ignore a small chance of newline characters in values); names and 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 its text file to a real file. The VFS was inspired by a FUSE xmlfs: https://github.com/halhen/xmlfs AUTHOR Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name> COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2013 PhiloSoft Design LICENSE GPL Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ phd@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.