DayZ XML inliner

Installation

• Ensure you have a recent version of Python 3 installed.
• Clone this repository.

Usage

Use python3 dayz_xml_inliner.py -h to see the available options.

• Paths in the <include> tags must are expected to be in Windows format (Using \ not /).

• Currently, all included files will be appended to the root (<Project> in this case) tag. This means nesting is not supported.

• The inliner will ignore any tags which are not <include>.

  • All <include> tags will be replaced with the contents of the file they point to.

• Paths in the <include> tags must be relative to the input file. For example, with the following directory structure:

  example_files
  |   input.xml
  |   xml
      |   included.xml
      |   another_included.xml
  

  input.xml should look like:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <Project name="DayZ Rising">
      <include>xml\included.xml</include>
      <include>xml\another_included.xml</include>
  </Project>

Example usage

-vbf means we will see verbose output (-v) with benchmark times (-b) and if the output file already exists, it will be overwritten (-f).

POSIX (MacOS, Linux)

python3 dayz_xml_inliner.py -vbf ./example_files/input_5k.xml ./example_files/output.xml

Windows

python dayz_xml_inliner.py -vbf .\example_files\input_5k.xml .\example_files\output.xml

--help

usage: python3 dayz_xml_inliner.py [-h] [-f] [-v] [-s] [-b] input output

Parse an XML file with include tags and emit a new XML file with the included files inlined.

positional arguments:
  input            The input XML file
  output           The output XML file

options:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  -f, --force      Overwrite the output file if it already exists
  -v, --verbose    Print verbose output
  -s, --silent     Suppress all output. WARN: The program fail silently.
  -b, --benchmark  Run the program in benchmark mode.