On 8/19/2011 4:47 AM, Hussein Shafie wrote:
> I'm sorry but XMLmind XML Editor has not been designed with the idea of
> editing XML files at the *physical* level, therefore this feature is
> almost certainly very difficult to implement.
In our team, our DocBook files are edited by people who prefer to use
XXE. But I occasionally need to look at them, mostly to debug why some
table is not PDFing nicely, and I prefer to use a text editor for some
purposes. I usually find myself re-formatting rows of the table so I
can understand the structure (fortunately, I finally found my
programer's editor's pretty-print for XML). One particularly
frustrating problem is that XXE has the habit of inserting newlines
between a tag name and its attributes, giving me an incomprehensible
mish-mash of stuff.
The open source xmllint program has the capability of pretty-printing
XML in more or less the format I prefer:
xmllint --format foo.xml
What if XXE passed its output through xmllint each time it saved the
file? My impression is that xmllint is pretty quick:
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> wc Adjectives.ch.xml
5868 9194 235371 Adjectives.ch.xml
> xmllint --format --timing Adjectives.ch.xml > /dev/null
Parsing took 5 ms
Saving took 2 ms
Freeing took 0 ms
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