The xmldirlisting project allows you to easily generate an XML file, which contains the directory listing of the current working directory. The scripts travels downwards the whole directory tree recursively and gathers information about the files and directories. The resulting XML tree can be manipulated and processed with other tools. There are also example files included, which are showing how to create a HTML directory listing with the help of an XSLT stylesheet processor (will be discussed later).

Please note, that the script needs a Python 3 interpreter installed. Most distributions are shipping Python 2 interpreters, but they optionally provide also the newer ones. Because the script was written with the Python 3 syntax in mind, another interpreter would probably fail. So if your interpreter complains about syntax errors, check your interpreters' version at first.