Yes, I know that Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 SP1 have been end-of-life for a long time, but in the wild they are still being used so here is for posterity:
A while ago, I needed to investigate reboot events on some Windows 10 systems. I wanted to use the console instead of the eventvwr GUI Event Viewer.
There is a tool for that called wevtutil which – like eventvwr – uses XPath query parameters and produces XML output.
Postprocessing XML can be a thing, but since .NET has great XML support, you can use PowerShell for that (which for me often is way easier than going the XSLT route, for instance because Windows lacks built-in console XSLT tooling).
Based on the help and the below links, my query command then on these machines turned out to be this: Read the rest of this entry »
The iTunes library xml file is in the same directory as the .itl file. The file is in Apple plist format, and Python’s standard library has a good parser for it.
On my list of Visual Studio Code extensions to try (after I change the shortcuts, as direct Alt shortcuts are not a good idea, luckily those are configurable)
VSCode extension that checks for broken links in an HTML, XML, RSS, PHP, or Markdown file.
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Checks currently open file:
for broken links in anchor-href, link-href, img-src, and script-src tags in currently-open HTML or PHP file
both clearnet and onion (Tor) links
for badly-formatted mailto links, and duplicate local anchors (anchor-name, anchor-id)
for working HTTPS equivalents of HTTP links
Optionally checks for invalid characters and common mistakes (missing tag content, empty attribute value, more).
Also checks for errors in a small subset of semantic HTML tags (in HTML and PHP files): checks that each page has header, main, footer; checks that each heading is inside a section, article, or aside; checks that each section/article/aside has exactly one heading in it; checks that heading values are nested properly.
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To see/change settings for this extension, open Settings (Ctrl+,) / Extensions / “HTML / XML / RSS link checker”.
To change the key-combinations for this extension, open File / Preferences / Keyboard Shortcuts and search for Alt+H or Alt+T or Alt+M or Alt+L.
Always wondered why I couldn’t find a method that would XML encode a string, effectively escaping the 5 illegal characters for XML. There is such a method but its location in the API is not intuitive at all. It’s in the System.Security namespace: [Wayback] SecurityElement.Escape(String) Method (System.Security) | Microsoft Docs
A few links for my link archive, as I often edit XML files (usually with different extensions than .xml, because historic choices that software development vendors make, which makes it way harder to tell editors “yes, this too is XML).
[WayBack] XPath Tools – Visual Studio Marketplace: Extension for Visual Studio – Run XPaths and XPath functions. Browse through results at the click of a button.Track and copy XPaths incl. XML namespaces in various formats, taking the hassle out of complex documents
This plugin is a small set of useful tools for editing XML with Notepad++. The plugin is libXML2-based. The plugin features are:
– XML syntax Check
– XML Schema (XSD) + DTD Validation
– XML tag autoclose
– Pretty print
– Linarize XML
– Current XML Path
– Conversion XML <-> Text
– Comment / Uncomment
– XPath expression evaluation
Author: Nicolas Crittin
Homepage: https://github.com/morbac/xmltools
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 