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I use the archive tool in KDE ("ark") fairly often, although only for reading. I regularly need to look at one or two metadata files within an archive, but not the gigabytes of data.

On the command line, I'll "unzip -p archive.zip metadata.xml" (with tab-completion for the archive entries), but if I've retrieved the file with a web browser I'll let it open in ark and open the entry files from there.

My only gripe with this is that I'm never sure what the structure inside an archive is like until I inspect it. It's not a massive inconvenience but I don't like extracting to a new directory just to find it empty save for another directory with the same name.

PeaZip also has similar functionality.

Same with Vim for Windows.

Right click and edit using gvim, regardless of the file type.