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Couldn't you also just do something like: <dir name="my root dir"> <dir name="my child dir"> <dir name="deep dir"/> </dir> <file name="first file in dir"/> <file name="second file in dir"/> </dir> I wrote a similar thing and this is the format I used (with some extra attributes for more information about the files and dirs). Kevin On Feb 18, 2008 11:09 AM, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@g...> wrote: > On Feb 18, 2008 8:27 PM, Nicholas Sushkin <nsushkin@o...> wrote: > > In many cases the files and directories are named after music pieces and > > created by a music management program from the music title. Those names > > contain a lot of spaces, quotes, punctuation, non-ASCII and other > > characters. > > Thanks for the information. I have not closely looked at music file > names. It surely sounds vastly incompatible to XML name rules. > > The problem I was having is - Given a root directory, I needed to > generate a XML hierarchy depicting the file system hierarchy, starting > from the given root. I wrote a recursive Java program and converted > the information to XML, using Xerces DOM implementation. > > Some of the directory/file names didn't conform to the XML name > conventions. Like, some directory names started with numeric. Some > contained characters like - (hyphen), ~ etc. > > Would somebody agree with me, that XML names should allow such rules? > My problem could serve as a use case ... > > > -- > Regards, > Mukul Gandhi > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > > -- There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who know better.
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