Hey folks, quick question for any of you who use Notepad++ extensively.
At TLCC, in one session, N++ was referred to as an XML editor. I've only ever known it as a plaintext editor -- is there some special functionality or a plugin that I should be looking into that makes it particularly useful for editing XML?
Yes... What you're looking for is the XML Tools plugin, which I believe comes with the initial download, but I could be wrong. If you don't see it, look for it in the Plugins/Plugin Manager window and install it.
Once you load your XML document, you can invoke syntax coloring by clicking the Language menu, and then XML. (And while you're there, have a look at all the other languages it knows.)
If your document is not formatted with indents for easy reading, you can reformat it using the keyboard shortcut ctrl-alt-shift-B (Plugins/XML Tools/Pretty Print (XML Only - with line breaks)).
This is indispensable when viewing unformatted XML from Tessitura trace logs.
There are loads more XML functions that are very handy, in the Plugins/XML Tools menu.
Hope this helps!