

Plugin Manager is a Notepad++ plugin through which you can install, update and remove available plugins. XML Code sample Step 1: Adding Plugin Manager from Github XML is similar to HTML but the difference is that HTML defines how data looks, while XML defines what data is. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in such a format that both humans and machines could read. Custom tags are used in XML files to define objects and the data within each object. XML files are just plain text files that can’t do anything on their own. XML (stands for eXtensible Markup Language) which is a language designed to store and transport data.

How to Format/Indent XML Files on Notepad++ What is XML File? Users will find it difficult to edit or read the XML code without the correct format for code. However, it lacks the formatting for XML files or XML code. It allows a user to edit codes within multiple tabs in a single window. It is an advanced alternate version of the default notepad which supports 50 programming, scripting and markup languages. The indented code will look like.Notepad++ is a free text and source code editor that is mostly used by programmers. To indent this sample code, select the “TextFX->TextFX Edit->Reindent C++ code” menu. We’ll see how this code will be properly indented using the “TextFX Characters” plugin. In this example, we have unindented code like this. Please remember that you need to restart (close and reopen) the Notepad++ editor to make the plugin function. Once the plugin is successfully installed the “TextFX” menu will appear on the menu bar.Follow the instruction to successfully install the plugin. Select the “TextFX Characters” plugin and then press “Install” button. You’ll see the available plugins that are not yet installed. Select the “Available” Tab of the “Plugin Manager” window.Open the Plugin Manager by selecting “Plugins->Plugin Manager->Show Plugin Manager” menu.If the plugin is already installed, skip these steps. If TextFX Characters plugin is not installed, then following these steps to install that. Core Notepad++ does not have the feature to do this but indentation can be done easily using a plugin called TextFX Characters. Here we’ll see how to re-indent code which are not properly indented using Notepad++. Good developers always maintain proper indentation but many times we get codes from internet or other sources which are not properly indented, many times they are not indented at all. Badly indented code is very difficult to understand or maintain. Indentation is very important for readability and manageability of code, especially, if the size of code base fairly big.
