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> Wasn't one of the design goals of XML to be human readable? > How do I do that? I display the document on my screen, > or I print it out. Surely having the least number of control > characters in the document makes that more readily achieveable. > I don't want to have to use a hex editor to see the 'real' > contents of a document. Nor have my printer go ballistic > or print blocks in place of control characters. Even without control characters, XML documents in general aren't human readable using tools such as vi or other ASCII text editors. A subset of XML documents are human readable if edited with vi and viewed with the appropriate Latin font. Are there any Unicode text editors available? Is there a text editor (or some combination of editor + terminal emulator setup + ...) that supports text-editing any XML document (or a larger subset of XML documents)? I suppose a Unicode editor would need to support two modes: display 'logical' characters, and display multibyte characters and non-displaying characters and similar-appearing characters as groups of bytes.
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