I use XMLStarlet. We will also discuss any useful tools at the SolrERG
(original subject of the thread)....
Regards,
Alex
On 10 Oct 2016 4:15 AM, <hairymccla...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
> Rick Leir said:> I commonly do a diff of the xmls to see what has changed
> in a new
> > release, or what differs in an example. The indentation is often
> > 'tidied up' in different ways, making the diff almost useless. Perhaps
> I
> > need to run an xml formatter before doing any diff's on xml's. Also,
> > perhaps the Solr committers could agree to standardize on an xml
> formatter.
>
> Notepad++ with the XML tools plugin has a helpful little shortcut
> (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+B) which tidies XML. I use this before diff'ing XML.
>
>
> On Saturday, October 8, 2016 1:52 AM, Erick Erickson <
> erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Personally I'd like an XML formatter as part of the checkin process ;)...
>
> But that's not my point. In any "replace configs" discussion, we need to be
> aware of the many different environments that are out there "in the wild".
> An indentation-sensitive format like YAML brings with it its own problems.
> One of them is that if I don't have my editor set to use spaces I've
> introduced
> errors. At least with a format that has structure you can format it ugly
> without
> changing its meaning.
>
> Best,
> Erick
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Rick Leir <rl...@leirtech.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2016-10-07 01:04 PM, Erick Erickson wrote:
> >>
> >> Rick:
> >> ..
> >> I've seen a _lot_ of configs in the wild with weird indentation, they
> >> tend to get that way because there are lots of situations I've seen
> >> where people edit them through some kind of remote terminal and can
> >> only edit in some vi-like editor. Which may be customized a zillion
> >> different ways in terms of how indentation is handled. That's
> >> something that we'd need to be sensitive to when considering an
> >> indentation-sensitive format.
> >
> > I commonly do a diff of the xmls to see what has changed in a new
> release,
> > or what differs in an example. The indentation is often 'tidied up' in
> > different ways, making the diff almost useless. Perhaps I need to run an
> xml
> > formatter before doing any diff's on xml's. Also, perhaps the Solr
> > committers could agree to standardize on an xml formatter.
> >
> > Sorry for warping this thread so far: When you comment out a swatch of
> XML,
> > you need to allow for embedded comments. That is less troublesome with
> some
> > other flavours of config file.
> >>
> >>
> >> Erick
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Rick Leir <rl...@leirtech.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for using the word bewildering, I agree.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> While we are talking of simplifying solrconfig.xml, may I mention
> YAML? I
> >>> find the YAML format so much more readable than XML.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I have not looked at the code which reads the config, so I do not know
> >>> how
> >>> big a change it is to use cfg4j and read in YAML.
> >>>
> >>>
> >
>
>
>
