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Googling "XML directory listing" turns up a few software packages, but none of them looks particularly thorough. This stands out: http://code.google.com/p/xml-dir-listing/, but it doesn't handle all the issues you and Liam raise. -Mike Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > Hi, XML-dev folks: > > I'm looking for pointers to an XML-based language for describing file > attributes of a directory tree. Peter Murray-Rust suggested I ask this > list. > > I have an application in mind which will record directory listings of > a file system in text form. That is, it should say something like: > > File name is: abc.txt > Last modification date is: 2009-12-31T01:23 > Read-only attribute is: True > Hidden attribute is: False > > The listings will persist for years in a long-term archive, so the > language should be self-evident to an information archaeologist of the > future. The language should be able to describe the most commonly-used > file attributes of common PC platform file systems: NTFS, FAT, HFS+, > ext2/3, etc. It should be able to handle non-Latin file names, > different semantics for time stamps on different file systems, etc. > > Of course, the obvious choice of a language for structuring this data > is some XML-based language. Can anyone point me to a language which > already exists for describing hierarchical structures of file > attributes and directory attributes, as in a file system? I'm hoping > to benefit from the work those language designers did to get the > semantics right, create the schema or DTD, work out the niggling > details of whether something should be an XML element or attribute, etc. > > I've looked in the obvious places: http://xml.coverpages.com, web > search engines, the archives of XML-L and comp.text.xml, and here. I > didn't find any traces of such languages. The search was complicated a > bit because the search term "file attributes" gets lots of hits on the > term "attributes" as used in XML. > > Please suggest languages I should investigate. It helps to have the > name of the language, and a pointer to a URL where the language and > its related tools, syntax definitions, etc. are described. Please > reply directly to me, or to a question I have open on Stack Overflow: > > <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1781936/an-xml-language-for-describing-file-attributes-of-a-directory-tree> > > > I can summarise for the list. > > (Peter Murray-Rust's comment at Stack Overflow: "If there isn't a > specification for this then there should be and I would expect the > OASIS folk to be involved. [You can say I suggested it.]") > > Thanks in advance!
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