Re: XMLFS for GSoC

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 01:46:02PM +0100, Michael Walker wrote:

>   * Read support in unxmlfs
>      unxmlfs takes an xmlfs-compatible directory tree and turns it
> into an XML file, thus reading will be done via libtrivfs, with no
> write support (I see no need/use for that).

I do.

The GSoC task description doesn't mention this explicitely; but my grand
vision is using XML as a general directory tree serialisation format.

Note that this requires the directory->XML->directory mapping to work,
which is probably more tricky than XML->directory->XML -- but also much
more useful IMHO. (Also, I'm not sure it's even possible to cover both
cases with the same pair of translators... Might need a different
mapping for each.)

As I said, this task is really mostly about design...

Having said that, the simple case would of course be a good start --
after all, GSoC is more about learning than about producing the ultimate
code :-)

-antrik-