From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
To: Olivier Sirven <the.slaa@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Formatting XML docs
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:56:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c115fd3c0908120456m6308932ak61d1f1e6f25156bb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m263ctea65.fsf@gmail.com>
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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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-11 20:10 Formatting XML docs Eric B.
2009-08-12 6:09 ` Ivan Kanis
2009-08-12 7:57 ` Olivier Sirven
2009-08-12 11:56 ` Tim Visher [this message]
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