Tsert::Ferret©®

The ferreting system of Tsert::OS©® uses an XML-based document format.
The ferreting system itself is called Tsert::Ferret, and is used to retrieve information,
index it, and store it as a ferret archive, and additionally generate a content analysis report.

The Tsert::Ferret format follows:

mimetype:

This file has a single line of text which gives the MIME type for the archive.

meta.xml:

Meta-information, options chosen by the user to create the Tsert::Ferret archive.

(such things as author, creation date, search query, time to schedule the task, repository URL, etc.)

settings.xml:

This file is not relevant to the Tsert::Ferret task running on Tsert::OS©®.

It is relevant to the stand-alone Windows application that will be developed.

private.xml:

This file may have signature, ID, public and/or private keys, if any required for decrypting. 

Keys may be included in the file and URIs provided for access to other keys.

The use of embedded keys and URIs  requires the archiver to access a local or remote

location to retrieve the decrypting key.

styles.xml:

This file defines the way the HTML files presenting information about the archive,

will be generated; i.e. the styles to be used in creating the HTML file.

manifest.xml:

The user can issue a search request to list all the files in the ferret archive.

A manifest is kept because the set of files returned by the query can differ with the set of files that were archived.

archive.zip:

This file contains the actual zip/bz2/gz/compress contents of all files returned by the search query, and the content  analysis report generated in xsl, xslt and html. The report itself, if chosen to be generated, consists of a report.xml and styles.xml files, or simply a report.htm  file.

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