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How to Open,Validate,Format & Render XML Files in VSCode IDE
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Jul 5, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you how to open
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syntax highlighting and format validate
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your XML documents directly inside VS
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code. So by default in VS code, XML
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document doesn't have much support. So
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if I have this Xample doxml file, so the
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file will show like this, it doesn't
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have the ability to syntax highlight the
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various sections of XML files. It
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doesn't validate your documents. So
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there is a one extension you need to
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install right here. Just go to the
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extensions tab and just if you just type
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here XML
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the very first extension which comes
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right here. It's developed by this XML
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tools. You may say
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I already have this
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but let me just uh uh uninstall this.
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So without this extensions if you open
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your sample.xml file it doesn't do much.
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So what you need to do first of all you
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it simply need to activate this
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extension.
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So once it is activated you will see the
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syntax highlighting is there.
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You just open the command pallet
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you will see all these options appearing
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revalidate all opened XML files. So all
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XML files were successfully validated.
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So let's suppose if I make some kind of
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mistake here
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and again do this process.
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So this extension doesn't do the job for
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us. So you can uninstall this. Let me
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choose this. If you just type your XML
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formatter.
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So quite a number of extensions will
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come. So,
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but these two extensions do the job for
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you for basic syntax highlighting.
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This is developed by Redhead. It's
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almost having 9 million downloads. And
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this one also
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it's does the job for you.
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So I think these two extensions are more
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than enough if you're working with XML
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files. Simply install them and
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you will have syntax highlighting as
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well. So all these features will be
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there. So,
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thank you very much for watching this
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