Re: Auto xml end-tag

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Trond Hersløv wrote:

> Hi!
> I am myself not able to program to new things into my emacs, but I 
> have a strong wish for a certain functionality.
> Maybe there already exists a library that someone can show me how to 
> include, of if not, maybe some of you also thinks this is a good idea, 
> and actually make the effort to program it.
>
> Much of my work nowdays includes writing som kind of sgml based text 
> files: XML, HTML, JSP, config files (eg. Apache webserver) etc.
>
> One of the biggest problems with these textfiles is the mismatch of 
> start and end tag. For example:
> <MyTag>This is the body</Mytag>
> Errors like this is often in a big file hard to find, so my whish for 
> a new functionality is this:
>
> After I have written <MyTag> or <MyTag attr1="test" attr="hello"> I 
> could press e.g Ctrl-t and emacs would insert </MyTag> for me.
>
> It would very nice if it could work recursiv ofcourse, but if it only 
> works for the last tag, it would be fine too.
>
Maybe you should look into nxml-mode. Look at http://www.emacswiki.org/ 
for some starting info about it.