Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:13:32 -0800 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: file as a directory |
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Peter Foldiak wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:02, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > > >>On 24 Nov 2004 09:16:03 +0000, Peter Foldiak >><peter.foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote: >>[...] >> >> >>>I would really like to implement this for the next version of Hans' file >>>system. >>> >>> >>I don't undersand how you want to use Xpath for not XML file. >>I agree with you that the idea behind Xpath is cool but I fail to >>unserstand how it can be applied to anything but XML >> >> > >My message was mainly about XML, for which it is easy. >For non-XML, you need some other way of knowing the file format. The >example that originally came up in this thread was > >/etc/passwd/[username] > >In this case, the passwd file has a known format. >Other file types, like LaTex, html, jpeg also have (at least partially) >known formats. Some selection should be possible even for unknown >formats (e.g. byte range, line-range). There could also be some way of >specifying a new format but I don't know how to do this well. You could >give names (like filenames) to parts of files. >But I think the first step would be to concentrate on XML, and worry >about the rest later. Peter > > > > > I think Peter is right. It would be nice to have an interpreter for each of the common file formats, and XML is just the biggest one. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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