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How to format/indent single-line XML files in Notepad++ x64?
Download the latest 64-bit x64 (stable) release of Notepad++ here:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/ (version 7.4.2 at the time of writing)
and start the usual install.
Download the latest 64-...
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How do I see the XML of my DOCX document?
Working on macOS, and don't want to install any software to see the XML from your .docx documents? Just open up the terminal and:
cd path/to/your/file.docx
unzip file.docx -d file-content
As ...
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How do I send a digest auth request using curl?
You don't have to specify all those values anywhere. The only thing
you do have to is username/password pair. CURL takes care of computing
the client response for you. This is exactly what "...
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Open and scroll through 42 GB text file in Mac OS X
Well, hexfiend is what I use, and love to use...
If it is a text file, you just go to Views and uncheck Hexadecimal option, it will show only text.
So, for example I scrolled to line: 37802466 ...
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How can I diff two XML files?
If you wish to also ignore the order of child elements, I wrote a simple python tool for this called xmldiffs:
Compare two XML files, ignoring element and attribute order.
Usage: xmldiffs [OPTION] ...
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How can I highlight XML on the command line?
I use bat:
xmllint --format - | bat -pP
-p removes all decoration (line numbers, etc.), -P disables the pager. Update: use -pp with newer versions of bat.
bat: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
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How to add RSS feed from feedburner.com to Thunderbird
The URL you link to (http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleOnlineSecurityBlog) is RSS (well, it is Atom, which is nicer and Feed Readers cope just as well with).
That is why you see XML source code when ...
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XML Tools for Notepad++: libXML and/or libXSLT missing
I had an issue with XML Tools failing to install via the Plugins Admin even when reinstalling the latest version of NPP (currently 7.7.1).
It turned out that a corporate firewall was blocking the ...
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How to add User Defined Language XML File to Notepad++
In the main menu click Language/User Defined Language/Define your language... the window that you have a screenshot of on the right side will appear. Then click the Import... button near the top and ...
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how to use xmllint in order to get value from xml
With your testfile:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!-- Component configuration file -->
<Component>
<Name>install_env</Name>
<HelpString>...
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How to delete a folded XML node (and all child nodes) in NotePad++
Short story:
Click into the folded line
Alt+Pos1 or aka Alt+Home
Shift+End
Shift+right
Del or Backspace
or in other words (for mouse users):
select the full folded line from start to end.
add one ...
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Why is `grep "^ *[^<]" <somefile.xml` giving unexpected results
This pattern is tricking you:
grep "^ *[^<]" <somefile.xml
The regex pattern means:
^ * "There may be one or more leading spaces, but a space is not required."
[^<] &...
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XML Tools Plugin for Notepad++ 7.4
First.
You must have correct plugins. To Notepad++ 64-bit you must download XML Tools for 64-bit. Simple.
Second.
The main folder for plugins in Windows 10 64-bit is in "C:\Users{win_user}\AppData\...
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How to format/indent single-line XML files in Notepad++ x64?
I had the same issue with Notepad++ v 7.6 - could not install XML Tools.
Updated the N++ to v 7.6.3 and after that XML Tools could be found in Plugin Manager's collection.
Now everything works all ...
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Failed to load a remote .xml file from a variable
Note that your $test variable contains the content of the xml file, not its path.
Anyway, to show it keeping the spaces intact, quote the variable: echo "$test".
To run a program getting the input ...
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XML Tools for Notepad++: libXML and/or libXSLT missing
Try with new default plugin manager
I still had the OLD plugin manager inside NPPx86.
A while back there was a bit of drama in the NPP project and the old plugin manager got kicked out of NPP in ...
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Notepad++ and XML - Replace and capitalize the first letter of all words in a tag element
Ctrl+H
Find what: (?:<name>|\G)\K\b(\w)(\w+\s*)
Replace with: \u$1$2
check Match case
check Wrap around
check Regular expression
Replace all
Explanation:
(?:<name>|\G) # non capture ...
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XML Schema Explorer is not working
This was a bug that has been fixed as per:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/657389/xml-schema-explorer-does-not-work.html
Just update your Visual Studio 2019 to the latest ...
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Native XML Viewers in Firefox and Chrome unable to parse XML + XHTML
Web browsers try to render anything, you throw at them, as HTML. Only, if they know for sure, that there is no HTML, they will render either as plain-text or XML, latter one in a treeview (as in your ...
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How do I filter an XML file to find all of one type of tag with any invalid values?
It's better to use a XML parser, but, if you want to use Notepad++, this does the job:
Ctrl+F
Find what: <tag[^>]*>(?:(?!Correct|</tag>).)*</tag>
CHECK Match case
CHECK Wrap ...
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How do I force Firefox to download an .xml file instead of opening it?
Open about:preferences -> Applications. On Extensible Markup Language (xml) action, select "Save File". It's supposed to work "as is". If it's not the case, you installation may ...
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Import XML or JSON data into Excel using URL from a cell
You can edit your queries in Power Query.
Here is a sample code to use content from named range ("apiURL") as api URL:
let
apiAddress = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="apiURL"]}[...
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XML query by the xmlstarlet
The apparently obvious solution won't work, because there is no reference to the xmlns namespaces you're using. (Well, technically it will work but it'll not find anything. This used to bite me too.)
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Conditional statement to skip data query
Your question isn't 100% clear at the moment, but assuming that a successful API call returns 12 rows in a table, and that if SecondSize is not greater than 0, you want to return a 12-row table that ...
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How to get the XPath of an element from Firefox inspector?
I know this question is old, but this feature now exists in the Developer tools of Firefox Quantum.
After inspecting, you can right-click the tag and Copy->XPath:
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Making InDesign recognise image paths to network drives when importing XML
I was having the same problem & tried various approaches to no avail. What eventually did work for me was manually linking my document to the requested images on the server using a shortened ...
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XML data from one Excel cell to new XML file
Assuming the entire XML is indeed a valid XML format and you simply need to export each cell as it's own file, you could use the following VBA:
Sub ExportCellsToXMLFiles()
On Error GoTo err:
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Convert multiple XML files (available as rows in database) into single Excel file all at a time
I would use the Power Query Add-In for this. Power Query is a free Add-In from Microsoft for Excel 2010 and 2013, and is built into Excel 2016 on the Data ribbon, under Get & Transform.
The ...
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Opening (parts of a) XML file in Windows command-line
Assuming you wish to parse the actual XML inside a SOAP-envelope/package, you may do that by using PowerShell - if you instead wish to parse the actual SOAP-data you will need to consume it via a ...
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Text manipulation in powershell
With a more complex RegEx it isn't that difficult:
$input_path = '.\graphic_xml.xml'
$output_file = '.\tags.txt'
[RegEx]$Pattern = '(?smi)^.*tag="[A-Z]_([A-Z]{2})_(\d{4}).*$'
Select-String -Path $...
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