It's even worse than it appears.
Thursday November 18, 2021; 8:31 AM EST
A simple XML viewer?#
  • When you view a normal XML file in the browser, Chrome gives you a simple, readable XML viewer. #
  • I want to be able to invoke that viewer from a JavaScript app running in the browser. #
  • Some kind of JavaScript call like#
    • window.xmlViewer (xmltext);#
  • The only other option is to rewrite it from scratch, which I'm open to doing but would rather not. Does anyone know if such a thing exists?#
  • BTW, one of the things that kind of silently limits the size of RSS is the way browsers display RSS feeds. They can handle other XML types in a normal sensible way. But the RSS viewer is broken. I wish they would just let it be, and show it as a normal XML file. #
  • A thread to discuss.#

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