Can Your XML Editor Do This?
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I'm working on a large, fairly deeply nested XML document, (a Visual Studio/MSBuild configuration) and I had a thought. How much easier would it be to work on it if the editor kept track of the nodes in which the selected node (the one in which the editor's insertion point is located), and either displayed it at the top of the edit window, or had a button that would pop open a balloon with a breadcrumb trail to the root node? Does anyone know of such an editor?
David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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I'm working on a large, fairly deeply nested XML document, (a Visual Studio/MSBuild configuration) and I had a thought. How much easier would it be to work on it if the editor kept track of the nodes in which the selected node (the one in which the editor's insertion point is located), and either displayed it at the top of the edit window, or had a button that would pop open a balloon with a breadcrumb trail to the root node? Does anyone know of such an editor?
David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
Not sure if it is what you ask for... but the xml tree explorer in PSPad was very useful for me in the past.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I'm working on a large, fairly deeply nested XML document, (a Visual Studio/MSBuild configuration) and I had a thought. How much easier would it be to work on it if the editor kept track of the nodes in which the selected node (the one in which the editor's insertion point is located), and either displayed it at the top of the edit window, or had a button that would pop open a balloon with a breadcrumb trail to the root node? Does anyone know of such an editor?
David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
I've implemented something like this before; if you post a question on the C# forum with a sample XML file, I will respond. My last post on the Lounge that contained code (tested, usable code) was reported four times, so we ain't going there again. You might also check the latest version of Pavel Torgashev's FastColoredTextBox [^] (a CodeProject 'crown jewel' article"), now on GitHub:[^] It does support XML syntax coloring.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I'm working on a large, fairly deeply nested XML document, (a Visual Studio/MSBuild configuration) and I had a thought. How much easier would it be to work on it if the editor kept track of the nodes in which the selected node (the one in which the editor's insertion point is located), and either displayed it at the top of the edit window, or had a button that would pop open a balloon with a breadcrumb trail to the root node? Does anyone know of such an editor?
David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
Maybe you can find one here: https://www.slant.co/topics/403/~best-xml-editors[^]
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I'm working on a large, fairly deeply nested XML document, (a Visual Studio/MSBuild configuration) and I had a thought. How much easier would it be to work on it if the editor kept track of the nodes in which the selected node (the one in which the editor's insertion point is located), and either displayed it at the top of the edit window, or had a button that would pop open a balloon with a breadcrumb trail to the root node? Does anyone know of such an editor?
David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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I'm working on a large, fairly deeply nested XML document, (a Visual Studio/MSBuild configuration) and I had a thought. How much easier would it be to work on it if the editor kept track of the nodes in which the selected node (the one in which the editor's insertion point is located), and either displayed it at the top of the edit window, or had a button that would pop open a balloon with a breadcrumb trail to the root node? Does anyone know of such an editor?
David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
Try Visual Studio Code with the [RedHat XML extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.vscode-xml) - VSCode has a breadcrumb bar (if you enable it), and the extension uses that to display the path to your XML file and also shows the path through the file to your cursor location.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I'm working on a large, fairly deeply nested XML document, (a Visual Studio/MSBuild configuration) and I had a thought. How much easier would it be to work on it if the editor kept track of the nodes in which the selected node (the one in which the editor's insertion point is located), and either displayed it at the top of the edit window, or had a button that would pop open a balloon with a breadcrumb trail to the root node? Does anyone know of such an editor?
David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
[Download XML Notepad 2007 from Official Microsoft Download Center](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=7973)
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then". ― Blaise Pascal
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[Download XML Notepad 2007 from Official Microsoft Download Center](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=7973)
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then". ― Blaise Pascal