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Favorite extensions: XML Tools

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Favorite extensions: XML Tools

- [Instructor] XML doesn't get much love these days. But it's still a staple in many development shops. Out of the box, you get decent color syntax in the visual studio code editor. We can enhance the features with an XML extension. This is what it looks like when you open an XML file with the default settings. I'm in the trucks.xml file. You get color coding of the tags. When you select a tag, it'll show you all the other tags with the same name. There's also a line drawn between the starting tag and the ending tag. Let's change the indenting on a couple of these lines and then if I'd like to clean this up by using format document, typically I would go to right click and choose format document, but you can see that's not available. But I can add that with this extension we're using. Go to the extension section, search in the marketplace for XML, the first item is the one I'm looking for, XML tools. And this has two things that I like, it has a formatting feature, and it enhances the…

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