emacs as an XML editor

emacs as an XML editor

[Giulio Petrucci]

Hi there,

I'm searching a way to use Emacs as an xml editor. What I need is:
1. a bit of syntax highlight
2. validation against an XSD scheme
3. some code completion if the XSD scheme is provided
4. the possibility to run some XPath queries on the document
Please, keep in mind that I work mostly on WinXP. :-)

Thanks in advance,
Giulio

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Re: emacs as an XML editor

[Le Wang]

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nxml, convert your xsd to rng.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Giulio Petrucci <sisisi@nonono.boh> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm searching a way to use Emacs as an xml editor. What I need is:
> 1. a bit of syntax highlight
> 2. validation against an XSD scheme
> 3. some code completion if the XSD scheme is provided
> 4. the possibility to run some XPath queries on the document
> Please, keep in mind that I work mostly on WinXP. :-)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Giulio
>
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>
>
>


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Re: emacs as an XML editor

[Giulio Petrucci]

Hi Le Wang,

first of all thank you for your quick reply.

On 2/22/2011 5:23 PM, Le Wang wrote:
> nxml, convert your xsd to rng.

Uhm... I'm trying it but when I open an .xsd scheme I have a message in 
the minibuffer saying: "No scheme loader available for file extension 
'xsd'".
I know I'm doing something wrong but I can't get *what* (as I'm quite a 
n00b). :-)

thanks,
Giulio

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Re: emacs as an XML editor

[Le Wang]

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I don't work with nxml very often, but see here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/917337/schema-sensitive-editing-in-emacs-based-on-w3c-xml-schema-not-rng

<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/917337/schema-sensitive-editing-in-emacs-based-on-w3c-xml-schema-not-rng>Nxml
only understands rng schema.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Giulio Petrucci <sisisi@nonono.boh> wrote:

> Hi Le Wang,
>
> first of all thank you for your quick reply.
>
>
> On 2/22/2011 5:23 PM, Le Wang wrote:
>
>> nxml, convert your xsd to rng.
>>
>
> Uhm... I'm trying it but when I open an .xsd scheme I have a message in the
> minibuffer saying: "No scheme loader available for file extension 'xsd'".
> I know I'm doing something wrong but I can't get *what* (as I'm quite a
> n00b). :-)
>
> thanks,
> Giulio
>
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Re: emacs as an XML editor

[mcundiff1]

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nxml does not understand xsd schemas or rng schemas, only rnc (relaxng compact syntax) so you need to convert whatever schema you have to rnc. That done, emacs makes a good xml editor. 

Morgan 


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From: "Le Wang" <l26wang@gmail.com> 
To: "Giulio Petrucci" <sisisi@nonono.boh> 
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:48:15 AM 
Subject: Re: emacs as an XML editor 

I don't work with nxml very often, but see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/917337/schema-sensitive-editing-in-emacs-based-on-w3c-xml-schema-not-rng 


Nxml only understands rng schema. 


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Giulio Petrucci <sisisi@nonono.boh> wrote: 


Hi Le Wang, 

first of all thank you for your quick reply. 


On 2/22/2011 5:23 PM, Le Wang wrote: 


nxml, convert your xsd to rng. 

Uhm... I'm trying it but when I open an .xsd scheme I have a message in the minibuffer saying: "No scheme loader available for file extension 'xsd'". 
I know I'm doing something wrong but I can't get *what* (as I'm quite a n00b). :-) 

thanks, 
Giulio 

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Re: emacs as an XML editor

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 22.02.2011 15:46, schrieb Giulio Petrucci:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm searching a way to use Emacs as an xml editor. What I need is:
> 1. a bit of syntax highlight
> 2. validation against an XSD scheme
> 3. some code completion if the XSD scheme is provided
> 4. the possibility to run some XPath queries on the document
> Please, keep in mind that I work mostly on WinXP. :-)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Giulio
>

have a look at

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PsgmlMode

also don't miss this:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xslide

HTH

Andreas

Re: emacs as an XML editor

[Giulio Petrucci]

Hi Andreas,

On 2/23/2011 7:40 PM, Andreas Röhler wrote:
> have a look at
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PsgmlMode

I already know the PsgmlMode but... I still couldn't use it in a 
productive way. :-) I think it's a generale issue about every emacs 
mode: the first "step" in the learning curve is very hard and every 
documentation you may found seems to speak to an expert user. Maybe I 
need just a little patience... ;-)

Thanks,
Giulio

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Re: emacs as an XML editor

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 25.02.2011 10:16, schrieb Giulio Petrucci:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On 2/23/2011 7:40 PM, Andreas Röhler wrote:
>> have a look at
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PsgmlMode
>
> I already know the PsgmlMode but... I still couldn't use it in a
> productive way. :-) I think it's a generale issue about every emacs
> mode: the first "step" in the learning curve is very hard and every
> documentation you may found seems to speak to an expert user. Maybe I
> need just a little patience... ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> Giulio
>

yes, the beginning might be hard, remember that well.... :-)

Maybe tell what you want to do task by task, so we may see which command 
to use, how to proceed resp. where and why a stop occurs.


Andreas

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Re: emacs as an XML editor

[Giulio Petrucci]

Hi Andreas,

On 2/25/2011 4:59 PM, Andreas Röhler wrote:
> yes, the beginning might be hard, remember that well.... :-)

Not only the beginning. :-(

> Maybe tell what you want to do task by task, so we may see which command
> to use, how to proceed resp. where and why a stop occurs.

Nothing special, actually.
- Open an XML file
- use an XSD scheme file to validate the document and have some 
intelli-sense support.

I'm trying to use trang (but it doesn't works for xsd to rng conversion) 
and xsdtorngconverter (but it just freak the scheme out). :-(

thanks,
Giulio

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Re: emacs as an XML editor

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Giulio Petrucci <sisisi@nonono.boh>:

> Hi there,
> I'm searching a way to use Emacs as an xml editor. What I need is:
> 1. a bit of syntax highlight

nxml-mode can do that.
  http://www.thaiopensource.com/nxml-mode/

Part of emacs24, I think.  Also available from ELPA
  http://tromey.com/elpa/

(ELPA install works on windows emacs as well)

> 2. validation against an XSD scheme

Nope.  nnxml-mode only does Relax-NG (actually RNC, ie. the "compact"
notation).

But an utility named trang can convert from XSD to RNG
  http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/trang.html

(trang is written in Java and so should work on windows)

Note that if you are writing the schema yourself, then writing a schema
in Relax-NG is a _lot_ nicer than writing an XSD schema.  And you can
use trang to create an xsd schema from the Relax-NG schema.

> 3. some code completion if the XSD scheme is provided

Nope.  But code competion against the RNG schema is provided.

> 4. the possibility to run some XPath queries on the document

Nope.