text-mode editor for xml

Bill Campbell linux-sxs at celestial.com
Tue Mar 3 22:17:44 PST 2009


On Tue, Mar 03, 2009, Jerry McBride wrote:
>
>I looked into this a while back. I was never satisfied by what I found. Your 
>best bet is right a script that parses the xml and adds an LF after each 
>closing tag. Then edit it via your favorite text editor (mine is aee) and go 
>from there.

I frequently use ``tidy -i -xml filename'' to clean up xml for
editing with vim.

Bill
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