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Malcolm Kay wrote:

>On Friday 23 July 2004 16:04, Miguel Cardenas wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello
>>
>>Anybody knows a program or utility to view XML documents?
>>    
>>
>
>You should realise that XML defines a syntax and grammar for 
>storing data. How that information is intended to be used 
>(or displayed) depends on the particular application for which 
>it was written.
>
>To examine an XML file generically requires no more than a 
>standard text editor. Or you can use an editor (say nedit)
>which can interpret the syntax and highlight the structure.
>  
>

If your XML file came with an XSLT stylesheet, you could use
xsltproc to convert the file to whatever the stylesheet specifies
(that's normally, but doesn't necessarily need to be, HTML).
xsltproc is part of the textproc/libxslt port.

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