archive-like format using XML

Question

Hi all, I'm generating some code using XSLT but the generated sources should be localized in a set of distinct files. Is there a tool/format (based on XML ?) that could be used to store the files in a jar/ar/tar-like format . I'm thinking of something like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<archive>
<file path="test/Test01.java" content-type="plain-text" checksum="something">
package test;
public class Test01
 {
 }
</file>
<file path="test/data.properties" content-type="plain-text" checksum="something">
prop1=value1
</file>
</archive>

Updated So I want to generate this kind of XML-archive: using

xsltproc xml2java.xslt my-structure-defined-as-xml.xml > myarchive.xml

or

my-xar-tool cvf myarchive.xml test/data.properties test/Test01.java
#adding  test/data.properties
#adding  test/Test01.java

and to extract the content of this archive:

my-xar-tool xvf myarchive.xml
#extracting  test/data.properties
#extracting  test/Test01.java

Is there already an existing XML Schema describing such archive ?

Answer 1

At the end, I've implemented Xar the tool I needed. See http://code.google.com/p/lindenb/wiki/Xar