xmlfs - a translator for accessing XML documents

  Copyright (C) 2002, 2005 HurdFR
  Written by Manuel Menal          <mmenal@hurdfr.org>
         and Marc de Saint Sauveur <marc@hurdfr.org>

This is  only an alpha version.   It works in read  only.  It supports
text  nodes and  attributes. It  doesn't do  anything fancy  like size
computing, though. Here is an example of how to use it:

$ settrans -ca xml ./xmlfs example.xml
$ cd xml; ls
library0 library1
$ cd library0; ls -A
.text1  .text2  @name  book0  book1  book2  sub-library0  sub-library1
$ cat .text2


CDATA, again !


$ cat book0 
<book>
<author>Mark Twain</author>
<title>La case de l'oncle Tom</title>
<isbn>4242</isbn>
</book>
$ cat book0/author/.text
Mark Twain

As  you can  see,  text nodes  are  named .textN,  with  N an  integer
starting from 0. Sorting is supposed to be stable, so you get the same
N every time you access the same  file. If there is only one text node
at this level, N is ommitted. Attributes are prefixed with @.

An  example file,  example.xml, is  provided. Of  course, it  does not
contain anything  useful. xmlfs  has been tested  on several-megabytes
XML documents, though.
 
Comments are welcome.

	-- Manuel Menal <mmenal@hurdfr.org>