text-mode editor for xml

Kurt Wall kwall at kurtwerks.com
Tue Mar 3 22:37:26 PST 2009


On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:17:44PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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.

tidy is awesome. I'd forgotten about it.

> Of all the contrivances devised for cheating the laboring classes of
> mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes him with
> paper money. -- -Daniel Webster

Except possibly credit. :-)

Kurt
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