Generates PluginsManager::runPluginCommand Exception error

[Gitoffthelawn]

I'm fixing a large commercial website, and as part of the debugging process, I'm validating some of the server responses. I've isolated an error where their servers are responding with erroneous data.

I was trying to look at some of that data in Notepad++ with your helpful extension. Unfortunately, when using the extension to format the data, the extension causes Notepad++ to issue this error:

**PluginsManager::runPluginCommand Exception error**

This should not happen.. please get in touch with the developers @ https://github.com/morbac/XMLTools

So here I am, getting in touched with you as requested! :)

Here is a tiny fragment of data that will always cause this error to appear when using both the Pretty print and Linearize functions in XMLTools:

<svg version=\"1.1\"\n\txmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"\n\txmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\" display=\"none\">\n\t<defs>\n\t\t<g id=\"foo\">\n\t\t\t<g fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\">\n\t\t\t\t<path stroke=\"#fff\" d=\"M1\" transform=\"translate(2 2)\"/>\n\t\t\t\t<path stroke=\"#fff\" d=\"M2\" transform=\"translate(2 2)\"/>\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M3\" transform=\"translate(2 2)\"/>\n\t\t\t</g>\n\t\t</g>\n\t\t</svg>

Of course, this data has serious issues (which is why their website has issues), but I don't think XMLTools should be abending when it encounters erroneous code.

[morbac]

Hi,

The error you encountered is sent by the SimpleXml formater engine whose I'm not the developer. You can avoid this error by using another formating engine : go in XMLTools Options and select "QuickXml" or "StringXml" as formating engine.

Now, this will not magically make your xml valid and the syntax errors present in your

[Gitoffthelawn]

Thanks. I will give your recommendation a try. Since SimpleXml generates an error on syntactically invalid XML, I wonder if either QuickXml or StringXml would be a better default for your plug-in. What's your thought on that?

BTW, if you can briefly summarize the key differences between the 3 engines, I'm interested in reading what you write.

[morbac]

The options dialog already gives some infos about these 3 engines. Briefly:

• SimpleXml is a fast formating engine developped by @LetMeSleepAlready. It is optimized for low memory usage, recommended for big files.
• QuickXml is a fast formating engine I developed as an alternative to SimpleXml. My goal was to try having an engine who garanties conformity (for instance, depending how you format <p>some <b>bold</b> <i>italic</i> text</p>, it might change the xml structure; therefore QuickXml will not format xml when it causes a change in structure)
• StringXml is the formating engine used in previous plugin version; it's not optimized at all and has performance issues on big files

[Gitoffthelawn]

Thanks! What do you mean by "change the structure"? I imagine you agree that changing the actual XML would not be good! :)