Re: XMLFS for GSoC

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 03:43:15PM +0100, Michael Walker wrote:

> I did originally just plan to do xmlfs, but then I realised that most
> of the nontrivial code in the xslt translator and in unxmlfs would be
> the same - the directory-tree-to-XML parser, which shouldn't really be
> too hard.

Well, if you need the exact same code, this is a pretty good indication
that it probably shouldn't be in the XSLT translator at all... Working
on top of a directory tree would only make sense if it would actually
use the provided structure directly, rather than first serializing it.

Or do you mean just the part that reads the directory structure and
constructs an internal DOM tree from it?

> The only other nontrivial part of the xslt code is the libnetfs-based
> translator component, but as that's just presenting the transformed
> XML, that could probably just be copied straight from xmlfs.

I don't think the XSLT translator should present a directory tree as
output. Nothing in XSLT requires the output to be XML.

-antrik-