Hello,

I recently installed the UE version 12.10a with build in XMLlint support.

In the first step I managed to activate the menu entry "Tool XMLlint" which is not active by default :-(

But the XMLlint Tool seems not to work. Tried some functions (eg. format) with no success.

- Do I have to install the XMLlint tool manually (from xmlsoft.org)?
- Or is the XMLlint tool build in?
- How to configure in UE?
- Does anybody has a working example?

Thanks for help in advance,

matt

Hello Mofi,

thanks for your answer, but the issue is still not solved.

The Tool XMLlint dialog appears in UE. The parser seems to work, but the results are not as expected.

- the function "Reformat and reindent the output, where indention is [ 4 ]" fails with no output (--format)
- once the --format option fails, the output is converted to a single <xml></xml> line, even if the input xml file is formatted and indented
- the option "Output results as an HTML file" failes with no effect (--htmlout)
- the option "Output Timing information" fails with no effect (--timing)
- In case of not well formed XML the Tool opens a popup saying 'Unclassified error' - I am expecting the original XMLlint messages with error code and line number
- I get Popups with "Validation error", "Error in DTD" - but I am missing the xmllint parser error messages


>I guess, you have to download the latest libxml2 package for win32 from xmlsoft.org.

- I downloaded XMLlint (xmllint.exe, libxml2.dll, zlib1.dll) and tried all locations (WINNT, UE dir, GNU dir, GNU/xmllint/, xmllint.exe in in the PATH list) with no effect and no success.
- I have a XMLlint installation running on my system (in the DOS box - but not in UE). That is where I get the expected results.
- The parser seems to work, but not like I expected - so I'm still not sure if I have to install XMLlint manually or not.


Does anybody has installed UE with XMLlint and, for example, succesfully reformat and reindent the output with indention=4?

Regards, matt

I am also looking for the solution for this problem. I downloaded the tool. Put it in different subdirectories of the GNU folder, but everytime I try to reformat a XML file I get an error message in UEStudio ('Error writing output') and I end up using the tool sepperately from UE. How to fix this?

Jurriaan wrote:I am also looking for the solution for this problem. I downloaded the tool. Put it in different subdirectories of the GNU folder, but everytime I try to reformat a XML file I get an error message in UEStudio ('Error writing output') and I end up using the tool sepperately from UE. How to fix this?

Jurrian, did you ever find a solution for this? I'm having the same issue.

Thanks,
Scott

I am also looking for help with XMLlint. Cannot get the parser to reformat XML. Anybody?

I am back on UE 10.10a (sorry, corporate policy / supported version).

In that version of UE, I am able to use xmllint as an external tool to format a tab/file's content -- specifically, I use the Windows binaries found, per this page

http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html

at this page

http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html

However, it only seems to work when, in the UE "Tool Configuration" dialog, I check the checkbox "Capture Output" found in the controls group labeled "Command Output (DOS Commands). When I uncheck this box, my file is not formatted (and, without output, I'm left wondering why).

So, after running the tool I have to close a new tab that contains the command output (empty when the command, as I have it configured, is successful). But at least it does do the formatting.

By the way, xmllint outputs only to stdout unless you tell it to write to a file. So, my UE tool command is defined as:

"full path to xmllint.exe" --format --output "%f" "%f"

I didn't locate the program on my defined path. Substitute for "full path to " as appropriate, if you try this.

Hi, Mofi,

I tried that, as well as some other seemingly likely tool configuration variations, but only the configuration that I described above worked.

Further, today -- after my system was shut down for the night -- I'm finding the tool command I set up is no longer working, even though I didn't change it. Now, it complains that:
Even though I have the full path to the executable quoted in the command specification:
Go figure. This exact same configuration worked when I described it, above. I've tried re-editing it; no luck. Also editing it to something else, then back to the original; still no luck.

Anyway, it's not too often anymore I get to use the following salutation, so forgive me if the context is not entirely appropriate:

Servus!

Mofi,

It turns out that execution was choking on the spaces in the filename parameters. Only after I changed BOTH parameters to instead use the DOS 8.3 format (changed '%f' to '%F') did execution begin completing successfully. With the 8.3 format, quoting the parameters is no longer necessary, so either of the following works:
I was concerned that this might cause long file names to be converted to 8.3 format when xmllint writes output to them, but that is not the case. Long file names remain intact.

By the way, when I whipped up my first version of my tool configuration, I was using a file path/name that didn't contain any spaces. That's why it initially worked.

Thanks for the tip about combining settings "Output to List Box" and "Show DOS Box". After deducing the above change to '%F', I tried that combination of settings, and with it I get successful execution without the side effect of an opened tab for (empty) command output. Good stuff!

Regards