Friday, August 17, 2007

Nifty XML Editor

GVim rocks.  It’s lightweight, it’s got wicked great support for regex work, it’s loaded with numerous features that really speed editing work, and you have to type “:q” from within the editor to quit.  It doesn’t get better than that.

Wait, it does: There’s a handy XML editing plugin for Vim based off the xml.vim file which ships with Vim.  The extension provides a number of additional features like tag folding, joining tags, changing tags, and my current favorite: adding a tag to a block or tag.

I’m having to do some cleanup of badly balanced, badly written HTML which will be formatted to XML.  There are a number of instances where a particular tagset should be surrounded by a list item tag (<li>) but isn’t.  The tag surround feature comes in very handy for that since I can quickly get some cleanup with just a few keystrokes.

(I’ve looked at writing some XPath code to handle this, but that would actually take longer in this case…)

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