[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Pretty XML

[Jason Loeffler]

Hi Laurel,

There are plenty of online prettifiers. Probably ok for occasional use.

http://codebeautify.org/xmlviewer

As for desktop use cases, you could equip each user with a free pseudo-IDE,
like Atom, then install the relevant package.

https://atom.io
https://atom.io/packages/xml-formatter

Hope that helps.

Jason Loeffler
Principal | Minor Science | Application Development & Metadata Strategy
Brooklyn, New York
On Aug 31, 2015 6:04 PM, "Dougherty, Laurel" <l1dougherty at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> All,
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> One of the little quirks we’re looking to work around with ASpace is the
> fact that EAD XML downloads aren’t “pretty.” The container list is a sold
> mass of tabs and text. We occasionally need to take a look at our XML
> container lists to trouble-shoot or add small customizations, and it’s hard
> to do.
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> We know we can:
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> 1)      Run a tidy app (but that doubles the visual length of our finding
> aids, adding white space between every line, and again, is “one more thing
> to do” after export
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> 2)      Our tech guru, Matt, has developed a simple Powershell prettify
> script, but since only his computer can run it, every time someone needed
> to look at their XML we’d have to ask him to run it (or, he’d have to keep
> his computer on all the time with a setting to scan our export file
> location, which again seems very dependent on him and his computer)
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> 3)      I know I can get things to display readably in oXygen, but our
> preferred editor is Komodo, and oXygen costs money—right now we would need
> a minimum of 3 licenses for the staff members that would need it at their
> workstations.
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> Has anyone thought up a seamless workaround (or a better tidy command)?
> Or, a second question, why doesn’t ASpace just export readable XML files
> that look like the ones that AT exported? I’ve searched in JIRA and it
> looks like this hasn’t been brought up before. Am I missing something
> obvious?
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> Many thanks for any input!
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> Laurel
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> *Laurel McPhee Dougherty*
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> Supervisory Archivist, Special Collections & Archives Program
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> UC San Diego Library | ( 858-534-5619 | * l1dougherty at ucsd.edu
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