Plugin: xmltool

• infos = Information about xmltool plugin is in keys below
• infos/author = Markus Raab elekt.nosp@m.ra@l.nosp@m.ibele.nosp@m.ktra.nosp@m..org
• infos/licence = BSD
• infos/provides = storage xml
• infos/needs =
• infos/placements = getstorage setstorage
• infos/status = maintained unittest old
• infos/description = Storage using libelektratools xml format.

This plugin is a storage plugin allowing Elektra to read and write xml formatted files. It uses the libelektratools xml format.

This plugin can be used for migration of Key Databases, e.g. from 0.7 -> 0.8.

Dependencies

• libxml2-dev

Restrictions

This plugin has a difficult time recognizing whether a key has a null value or an empty value.

Examples

Mount an xml file using xmltools:

    kdb mount /etc/example.xml system/example xmltool

Using an xml as export format:

    kdb export system/example xmltool > backup.xml