Xml files

Many files exported and imported in Geopsy softwares are based on XML structures. For instance, (listed with their common extension):

• page
• mkup
• layer
• cpanel
• ctparser
• gpy
• dinver
• param
• target

Those files are compressed TAR archives containing at least one file called contents.xml.

tar xvfz Legend_page.page

Note that option 'z' might not be necessary if your browser recognizes page files as compressed gz files and decompresses it silently. Anyhow it produces a file contents.xml which can be viewed by any Internet browser (e.g. firefox[1]).

<SciFigs>
  <libVersion>2.3.0</libVersion>
  <type>Page</type>
  <GraphicSheet>
    <LegendWidget objectName="object">
      <objectName>object</objectName>
      <printX>1</printX>
      <printY>1</printY>
      <anchor>TopLeft</anchor>
...

The encoding of this file is UTF-8 which may not be directly editable in a text editor that does not support Unicode. Also some bash command lines (e.g. grep, awk, sed,...) might not support Unicode. To convert it to ASCII ():