Dir2XML

Introduction

Dir2XML is a library for generating an XML file that represents a directory structure. Example input file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<document xmlns:dx="http://dir2xml.sourceforge.nl/XMLNS">
   <dx:dir2xml dir="/home/ernst/public_html" />
</document>

After being processed by the Dir2XML processor, the result would be something like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<document>
   <dir name="public_html" year="2002" month="3" day="15" hour="19" minute="54" second="12">
      <file name="index.html" size="3048" year="2002" month="4" day="3" hour="22" minute="16" second="4" />
      <file name="img.gif" size="4096" year="2002" month="4" day="3" hour="23" minute="04" second="0" />
   </dir>
</document>

Support for Ant is provided. Example of a target that will perform Dir2XML processing:

<target name="dir2xml">
   <taskdef name="dir2xml" classname="org.znerd.dir2xml.ant.Task">
      <classpath path="dir2xml.jar" />
      <classpath path="jdom.jar" />
      <classpath path="xercesImpl.jar" />
      <classpath path="xmlParserAPIs.jar" />
   </taskdef>

   <dir2xml in="in.xml" out="out.xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" newlines="true" indent="   "/>
</target>

Dir2XML is managed using SourceForge. The SourceForge project name is dir2xml.

Dir2XML Summary page at SourceForge

The latest release version of Dir2XML is 0.3.

Downloads and links

Downloads are distributed as .tar.gz files. There are 2 distributions. The first contains only the source files and everything else that is necessary for generating the rest. The second contains generated class files, a JAR file and API documentation as well.

Downloads can be obtained from SourceForge:

List of releases and file downloads

The generated API documentation is available online here:

Dir2XML API documentation, latest release (0.3)
Dir2XML API documentation, most recent (0.4-dev)

The CVS repository can be browsed online:

Browse CVS module

Feedback

If you would like to contact the author, feel free to send an email to:

Ernst de Haan (znerd at FreeBSD dot org)