Formatting XML docs

Formatting XML docs

[Eric B.]

Hi,

I'm somewhat of an emacs novice.  I've been using the basic functionalities 
of emacs for a while, but nothing more than simple editing, save, etc..

At the moment, I am trying to edit and auto-format an xml document.  After 
searching for help online, I am somewhat stuck.  I am in SGML major mode, 
however all the docs/help I read indicate to use sgml-print-pretty to 
reformat the buffer.  However, I don't seem to have an sgml-print-pretty 
option installed.

I am running the default version of emacs that comes installed with CentOS 
5.3, with the psgml package installed.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Thanks,

Eric

Re: Formatting XML docs

[Ivan Kanis]

"Eric B." <ebenze@hotmail.com> wrote:

> At the moment, I am trying to edit and auto-format an xml document.

I suggest you use nxml it's bundled with emacs23.
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Re: Formatting XML docs

[Olivier Sirven]

"Eric B." <ebenze@hotmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm somewhat of an emacs novice.  I've been using the basic functionalities 
> of emacs for a while, but nothing more than simple editing, save, etc..
>
> At the moment, I am trying to edit and auto-format an xml document.  After 
> searching for help online, I am somewhat stuck.  I am in SGML major mode, 
> however all the docs/help I read indicate to use sgml-print-pretty to 
> reformat the buffer.  However, I don't seem to have an sgml-print-pretty 
> option installed.
>
> I am running the default version of emacs that comes installed with CentOS 
> 5.3, with the psgml package installed.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Hi,

I don't know about SGML major mode for editing XML documents but I would
encourage you to use nxml major mode for XML docs. It's way much
powerful and efficient.

-- 
Olivier

Re: Formatting XML docs

[Tim Visher]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Olivier Sirven<the.slaa@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Eric B." <ebenze@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm somewhat of an emacs novice.  I've been using the basic functionalities
>> of emacs for a while, but nothing more than simple editing, save, etc..
>>
>> At the moment, I am trying to edit and auto-format an xml document.  After
>> searching for help online, I am somewhat stuck.  I am in SGML major mode,
>> however all the docs/help I read indicate to use sgml-print-pretty to
>> reformat the buffer.  However, I don't seem to have an sgml-print-pretty
>> option installed.
>>
>> I am running the default version of emacs that comes installed with CentOS
>> 5.3, with the psgml package installed.
>>
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
>
> I don't know about SGML major mode for editing XML documents but I would
> encourage you to use nxml major mode for XML docs. It's way much
> powerful and efficient.

+1 for making the switch to NXML mode.

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