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Old October 5th, 2008, 10:43 AM
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XML editor

Does anyone know of an XML editor for Mac (or Windows or Linux) which preserves whitespace in the input? That is, I want it to avoid making unnecessary changes just because its parser ignores whitespace between elements. Also, it should be able "render" a decent display, not just bare XML - I'm using DocBook.

I have tried XMLmind and oXygen, but they both have different ideas about how to prettify the input.

Now, if I was the only one working on these files, I wouldn't care about this issue. But I'm part of a team, using a SVN repository to maintain the files. When I think I have changed one line but I check in thousands of bogus differences, the other team members get kind of testy.
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Old October 5th, 2008, 06:02 PM
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vim.

What do you use for the other platforms? I haven't found anything decent for any, so ended up for a few projects manually encoding everything. <xml> ....
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Old October 6th, 2008, 05:45 AM
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Sorry for not being clear. I meant that I would switch my XML work to Windows or Linux if I could find a satisfactory editor.

I use vim for other things. Again I wasn't too clear. XMLmind and oXygen allow me to switch back and forth between an XML view and a "styled" view and edit in both. It's nice to have almost WYSIWYG. That's what I'm looking for.
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