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younginnovations / aidstream-old

[Deprecated] AidStream is a platform for small and medium size NGOs to publish their aid data in IATI standard.
http://aidstream.org
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Formatting the XML files #83

Closed rolfkleef closed 10 years ago

rolfkleef commented 10 years ago

As a user, I want to download a well-formatted XML file, so that it is easier to interpret in my text editor

The IATI activities file may be valid XML, but basically is a long string, mostly on a single line of text. This makes it hard to do anything with it from a regular user's perspective.

It would be helpful to for instance run "xmllint --format" on the file (this is what I usually do); and perhaps to provide a syntax-coloured preview with line numbers through something like the SyntaxHighlighter: http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/manual/installation.html (I suggested that for the CSV2IATI conversion tool too: https://github.com/IATI/CSV2IATI/issues/202)

stevieflow commented 10 years ago

+1

I've also noticed that in the (rare) occassions that an AidStream file fails schema validation - the current formatting makes it difficult to pinpoint the relevant issue/line/element