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I like XML, I use it from time to time in the course of my job but find it's tag based structure clumsy to work with in comparison with other alternatives out there. Recently working with some OpenXML code I frequently had to check the validity and structure of XML coming in and XML I was writing to file.

Normally I'd google search a free online XML Parser and check my code is valid. But for this recent task, the amount of XML that needed parsing was quite a lot. I decided to find a tool to compliment my text editor of choice TextWrangler.

It turns out that my Mac already has probably the best lightweight XML validator, parser, and display formatter, namely xmllint. What's even better I discovered a way to use xmllint directly in TextWrangler. Xmllint ships out of the box with OS-X

André Bergonse provides the method to connect TextWrangler to xmllint and process one's XML with a few key presses. So if you use TextWrangler and have a need to work with XML, you will like this.
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