I'm having a problem opening xml from a network location if the url has spaces in it. I remember there being a registry hack to fix that but I can't remember what registry key to edit. Basically, i need to put " around it.. Do you what the registry key is?

Thanks

The ID and IDREF/IDREFS XML data types are often used to "point" to data that exists elsewhere. It is often advantageous to define something once and reference it as need. However, this introduces a level of indirection that makes it difficult to quickly inspect XML and determine its logical meaning.

I am proposing an enhancement to XmlNotepad to address this. When a IDREF/IDREFS is encountered that points to one or more defined IDs, instead of appearing as an attribute/element, it would appear as a folder (like element-only tags currently do). This folder would contain the the tags referenced by IDREF/IDREFs.

Access to the nodes could be handled by constructing a Dictionary<IDREF, XmlNode> during schema validation.

Saved files respect the option whether to write a BOM on save. Files that are created through the XSLT transformation always have a BOM.
It would be nice if the transformed files would respect the BOM option, or to have a different option for them.

Thanks for this program!
I was wondering if the background of the main viewing area could also have color changes like the other elements. As you can see from the image the areas to the right of elements aren't colored like the rest of the backgrounds. And also the bottom panel "Description" (basically all the white areas).
Thanks.

Hi,

Is there a batch mode? Like can I run the comparison tool from a batch script without the UI and still getting the diff file?

I just updated from 2.7.1.16 to 2.7.1.20: I encontuered the following bug: the stylesheet URL defined in the XML seems to be searched in the C:/ drive instead of the real web location.

In the 2.7.1.16 I'm able to view the same XML with its stylesheet without any problem.
Thank you

Could You add possibility to change keyboard shortcut for features on Your app

What is the solution/workaround for this?

This is a simple rebuild of the freshly clone repository.

1>------ Build started: Project: XmlNotepadSetup, Configuration: Debug x86 ------
1>		set SIGNTOOL=C:\TDW\XmlNotepad\src\XmlNotepadSetup\..\..\tools\signtool.exe
1>"%SIGNTOOL%" sign /v /debug /i "COMODO RSA Code Signing CA"  /t http://timestamp.comodoca.com/authenticode /fd sha256 "C:\TDW\XmlNotepad\src\XmlNotepadSetup\bin\Debug\XmlNotepadSetup.msi"
1>		The following certificates were considered:
1>		After EKU filter, 0 certs were left.
1>		After expiry filter, 0 certs were left.
1>		After Issuer Name filter, 0 certs were left.
1>		After Private Key filter, 0 certs were left.
1>EXEC(0,0): error : No certificates were found that met all the given criteria.
1>C:\TDW\XmlNotepad\src\packages\WiX.3.11.2\tools\wix2010.targets(2832,5): error MSB3073: The command "set SIGNTOOL=C:\TDW\XmlNotepad\src\XmlNotepadSetup\..\..\tools\signtool.exe
1>"%SIGNTOOL%" sign /v /debug /i "COMODO RSA Code Signing CA"  /t http://timestamp.comodoca.com/authenticode /fd sha256 "C:\TDW\XmlNotepad\src\XmlNotepadSetup\bin\Debug\XmlNotepadSetup.msi"" exited with code 1.
1>Done building project "XmlNotepadSetup.wixproj" -- FAILED.

I just downloaded the repository as a zip, unzippped, open it on Visual Studio 2017 Community and there appears this error message(among others):

"No se puede encontrar el valor solicitado 'Ins'. línea 401, posición 5."

C:\Users\MyUser\Desktop\XmlNotepad-master\src\XmlNotepad\FormMain.resx

línea 401, posición 5(Line 401, pos 5)

Sorry, my locale is Spanish, see title of this issue for a translation

Reduced test case. Open 'a.xml' with this content:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<First>
<Second>
<x>&#32;</x>
</Second>
<y>5</y>
</First>

Compare with this 'b.xml' wit this content:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<First>
<Second>
<x>&#32;</x>
</Second>
<y>6</y>
</First>

If there are any difference between the 2 files (the y element in this case) it will error with a "Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length".

This is actually caused by the 'hex encoded' space character in the x element.

Getting "500 (Internal Server) Error"

Any chance we could get it to support opening and reading RSS feeds? Currently, it breaks on the rss declaration at the top.

thanks!

I have a WebDAV location configured into Windows 7 through the 'map network drive' method. I can open XML files stored in this location in other applications, but not XMLNotepad. It gives the errror:

Please provide node count on each node

Are you aware of this: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47606

Hi,

Can you add a save comparison report functionality?
Thanks

Is this the latest version of this software? Will updated versions ever be posted to microsoft.com (it's currently reporting v2.5)?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7973

Installs version 2.7.1.5

When I try to add XMLSchema.xsd through View/Schemas... I get an error message:

Schema Error
Error loading schema 'C:\XML\XMLSchema.xsd'

По соображениям безопасности использование DTD в данном XML-документе запрещено. Чтобы включить обработку DTD, установите свойство DtdProcessing в разделе XmlReaderSettings в значение Parse и передайте методу XmlReader.Create.

In previous versions of XML Notepad, I was able to set it as the default program for opening XML files. I no longer seem to be able to do that. The right-click -> Open With -> Choose Default Program allows me to browse for the executable, but does not select it. Set Default Programs in control panel does not list it.

I'm using Win7 Home Premium 64-bit.

Thank you.

When opening file with BOM, an error message shows "Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 1, position 1."

This isn't fatal, but I figured I'd send it along. I use XML Notepad for working with school state reporting files here in Michigan, and recently I'm finding that the schema files posted by the state aren't loading, which is unfortunate because your program does a great job catching invalid values, etc. The schema is posted at https://cepi.state.mi.us/msdsxml/FallGeneralCollection2019-20201.xsd . When I open one of the count files, which have headers like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FallGeneralCollectionGroup SchemaVersionMajor="2019-2020" SchemaVersionMinor="1" CollectionId="211" CollectionName="FallGeneralCollection" SubmittingSystemVendor="MISD" SubmittingSystemName="MISDmsds" SubmittingSystemVersion="2.2.4.5" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://cepi.state.mi.us/msdsxml/FallGeneralCollection2019-20201.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

I get the following error:

Error loading schema 'https://cepi.state.mi.us/msdsxml/FallGeneralCollection2019-20201.xsd'
The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.

Since I'm not receiving any sort of certificate errors off of the state website, I'm kind of assuming the program and the site are failing to shake hands due to some sort of security adjustment in XML Notepad, as this didn't happen until the last few months.

Hi,
I'm getting the error "The 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema:assert' element is not supported in this context." the file is SAFTPT1.04_01.xsd.
Thanks

XSL processing can insert href links into the html output, for images, css etc. This works fine in xmlnotepad as long as the href links are fully qualified paths (eg. c:\solarsys\planet9.css) but fails when the links are relative (./../../solarsys/planet9.css)

From a new users perspective, this can be perplexing since relative paths look valid in all xml/xsl files. However, the html output is never 'stored' anywhere other than memory and relative paths have no meaning. Currently the XML is loaded to memory then passed to WebBrowser thus relative paths have no meaning. There seems to be no way to set a 'working directory' for the WebBrowser component.

xmlnotepad could support relative paths by reading href links and loading those files into the WebBrowser DOM. But that is probably a bit of work. Is there an easier way?

Workarounds:
(1) Use fully qualified paths.
(2) Drag and drop your xml file into the xmlnotepad WebBrowser window
(3) Use XSL to copy the content of relative files directly into the html output - described here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1038101/how-to-copy-external-css-and-javascript-in-xslt
For images, they would need to be base64 encoded for embedding into html with Data URI.

If you have a very large XML, and edit something towards the end of the XML, it will hang up for a substantial amount of time. Even on not so large XML's the time delay after editing a node value is noticeable.

The source of the delay is the CheckChange call in XmlTreeView.OnModelChanged, which appears to be doing an exhaustive search of the XML document on every edit.

Is there an option to ignore optional elements from comparison? Or to use an xsd?

This is a feature suggestion. So in .config files we have big applicationSettings section with a lot of setting items. Right now in "xml notepad" it looks like on the screenshot. What I am suggesting is getting a value of name attribute of the setting item and then in the Tree View either substitute string "setting" with the value of name either append value of name to string "setting". With that being implemented it will be much easier to look for specific setting without remembering exact position and without using View - Expand All menu button.

The link in the description "See XML Notepad Design for information about how this application is built." is broken.

The wiki points to http://www.lovettsoftware.com/downloads/xmlnotepad/xmlnotepadsetup.zip which still installs 2.7.1.11

Quick analysis give dependency from COM mshtml. Is it possible to build this application without it ?

 Microsoft.mshtml, Version=7.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a
 Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a, processorArchitecture=MSIL
 PresentationCore
 PresentationFramework
 UIAutomationClient
 UIAutomationTypes
[~] Accessibility
[~] Microsoft.CSharp
[~] System
[~] System.Core
[~] System.Data
[~] System.Data.DataSetExtensions
[~] System.Deployment
[~] System.Drawing
[~] System.Windows.Forms
[~] System.Xaml
[~] System.Xml
[~] System.XML
[~] System.Xml.Linq
[~] WindowsBase

The updater reports a new version (2.8.0.8 per the update site) but only 2.8.0.7 can be downloaded as far as I can tell.

Is it possible to make a portable version of XmlNotepad, rather than one that needs to be installed?

An error has occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 1244, position 45.
Would you like to open using Notepad?

Silverado.zip

I am attempting to alter mods for a game and any mod containing the "&" symbol is giving me this error.

Is it possible in the near future to have some command line like Open, Close, Load, etc. Etc. to automate the use of the software in a batch file or other use ?
Tia
Arcangelo

In fact, I'm not sure I see any packaging/installer code checked in... (I've forgotten how ClickOnce manifests are maintained, I might just be missing it).

Dear All!

Thanks for this great XML editor, especially the validation (dropdowns!) for XSD restrictions is extremely helpful!

I have one question, whether this is possible right now (or in a future update):
If I search for element nodes with existing text in it, I can replace this text by using a /valid/xpath/to/soughtelement/text() xpath search. This replaces the text contained in soughtelement with the new text.

If the text in soughtelement is empty however, I can't make this work, as /valid/xpath/to/soughtelement[not(text())] replaces the whole soughtelement with the new text and /valid/xpath/to/soughtelement[not(text())]/text() doesn't find anything.

Any "hacking" the XML directly is forbidden as the search/replace dialog doesn't allow reserved XML characters.

I'd really appreciate any help on this one!

-regards,
Roland

The readme.md references a "Standalone downloadable installer" but I can't find it in the repo. Has it fallen out?

• G.

There is a dropdown list which contain previously opened files. But it is limited by 10 items. It will be
useful to have scrollbar or an option to specify a number of items in this dropdown list. If this is possible could you add this to config?

After using the most recent MSI to install 2.8.0.0, its product version is still listed as the old version 2.7.1.14

Unit tests cannot be executed if the XmlNotepad Solution is located in a path with spaces in the path. For example c:\users\john smith\will\not\work\XmlNotepad.

In addition all unit tests that uses this pattern...
p = pivalue.Bounds.Center();
var hit = ntv.HitTest(p.X, p.Y);
string hitname = hit.Name;
..fails on my computer.

hello,
there always exits a error that
“"E:\Anik\Work Files\XMLeditor\srcc\PublishDrop.cmd" "E:\Anik\Work Files\XMLeditor\srcc\Application\bin\Debug" > "E:\Anik\Work Files\XMLeditor\srcc\Publish.log"
”已退出，代码为 4。 Application 生成

In the wiki (https://github.com/Microsoft/XmlNotepad/wiki), the link that permits to download the standalone installer (http://www.lovettsoftware.com/downloads/xmlnotepad/xmlnotepadsetup.zip) is broken; it returns a 404. Where to download it?

Firstly: very useful app, thank you!

eg. filename = "My File.xml"
Right click on the file, select "open with..", select xmlnotepad
Fails with errors, cannot find "My" and cannot find "File.xml"
Presumably this would also happen if double clicking that xml file and xmlnotepad was the default app for xml extension.
Workaround: Use the file>open menu option in xmlnotepad

Can you put the line numbers in the comparison report?
It would be very useful.

Tanks

I would have more confidence in the authenticity and accuracy of the binaries if they were hosted on this project's releases tab.

I can't really tell that this software is related to this project (unless I followed the link in the wiki) and I'm not sure what version I'm getting. Although, it looks like this is a ClickOnce app, so maybe its self-explanatory?

Whenever I open an XML file stored on SharePoint Server 2013, I get a Load Error message:
Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed. Would you like to open it using Notepad? Yes/No.

There's only an unofficial NuGet package based on the original NET 1.1 version of the code and although json is taking over the world, there's still a lot of XML in enterprise applications that needs supporting.

Extract out XmlDiffPatch and XmlDiffView as separate NuGet packages and also support NET Core,

BTW I don't mind taking a first attempt at this.

Where is the app located? I'm trying to associate .xml files to this app and I can't find it anywhere in the store or on my hard drive. I have a shortcut in my Start Menu, but can't figure out where it's launching from.
Thanks.

With the latest update, setting the default app for xml files to XML Notepad doesn't work correctly in Windows 10. XML Notepad doesn't read the full pathname correctly when you double click an xml file in windows explorer and can't find the file.