text-mode editor for xml

Bill Campbell linux-sxs at celestial.com
Wed Mar 4 08:36:36 PST 2009


On Tue, Mar 03, 2009, Kurt Wall wrote:
>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.

It's easy to forget things with the many neat open source
utilities available.

>> 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. :-)

Easy credit is made possible by fiat money and the fraud of
fractional reserve banking.  See G. Edward Griffin's book ``The
Creature from Jekyll Island'' for what is probably the most
readable explanation of the Fed and central banking.

Bill
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