Saturday, August 25, 2007, 5:15:01 AM, Jim Hinds wrote: > I have tried to use the XML editor on several more or less > arbitrary samples of xml.? Unfortunatly, there always seems to be > some snafu or other that prevents loading or opening the xml file.
I don't know what projects or companies are you are working for, but it's sad if they are unable to maintain their XML-s valid. Surely its a tradition to write invalid or even not-well-formed *HTML-s*, but not so with XML-s, fortunately. Because nearly all application that uses XML-s simply can't open non-well-formed XML-s (because XML parsers stop with error with them), and has no "heuristics" to interpret well-formed but invalid XML either. This is unlike with HTML browser, which are written to cope with whatever wild "tag soup"-s. So, if your XML-s are not valid, then it's definitely time to fix them and switch to a tool that help the guys keep them so. Until the XML is not even well-formed, surely you will have to use VI or JEdit or some other plain-text editor to fix that. > It is impossible to get a 'value' reading from using the editor > since it fails in the real-world examples. Well, there are such issues, i.e., that some XML-s has to be made with XXE in mind to be displayed correctly in XXE, but that has nothing to do with non-well-formed (or invalid) XML-s that you seem to have problems with right now. -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany
