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| From | Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.freeware, comp.text.xml |
| Subject | What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? |
| Date | 2020-04-21 23:05 +0530 |
| Organization | Mixmin |
| Message-ID | <r7nasv$jm2$1@news.mixmin.net> (permalink) |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
Q1: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages
archived from Android to Windows (in the XML text archive format).
<https://i.postimg.cc/L5WsCrNq/xml01.jpg>
Q2: Why do these SMS backup programs use XML anyway?
Other than while graphically layout out Hello-World simple apps in
Android Studio freeware, I've never had to deal with XML on Windows.'
<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.mobile.android/aW64zYeBtF0/1b5h3r3PBAAJ>
I need help figuring out _what_ is in a bunch of newly created XML files.
o What free editor/viewer would you recommend for my generic needs below?
What's the problem set?
1. Someone asked on comp.mobile.android how to copy SMS/MMS from Android to Windows.
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.mobile.android/d0Y8CqDTaog>
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.mobile.android/xwX8S7XW-p0>
2. I tested these free apps, both of which created XML files.
o *SMS Backup & Restore*, by SyncTech Pty Ltd
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore>
"backs up and restores your phone's SMS and MMS messages and call logs."
o *Super Backup & Restore*, by MobileIdea Studio
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idea.backup.smscontacts>
"You can backup applications, contacts, text messages, call history,
bookmarks, calendars to your SD card, Gmail, or Google Drive"
(some functions require root)
3. I copied the XML results to Windows.
\sms_backup_and_restore\calls-20200421011403.xml
\sms_backup_and_restore\sms-20200421011403.xml
\super_backup_and_restore\sms\sms_20200421012301.xml
\super_backup_and_restore\logs\calllogs_20200421012328.xml
Now what?
o How can we best view/edit these SMS XML files on Windows?
Obvious I doubleclicked on them, which brought up the XML tagged results in
Windows Internet Explorer (of all things). Obviously I googled and installed
what seems to be the canonical XML freeware editor, from Microsoft...
o *XML Notepad 2007*
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7973>
Name: XmlNotepad.msi
Size: 1917440 bytes (1872 KiB)
SHA256: 7420A936C167ACAFDC9421181B579FE8ECFF6D43937EDCEF93E2A1321F8141FF
Unfortunately, it required more stuff from Microsoft...
o .NET Framework 3.5
<https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-framework/net35-sp1>
Name: dotnetfx35.exe
Size: 242743296 bytes (231 MiB)
SHA256: 0582515BDE321E072F8673E829E175ED2E7A53E803127C50253AF76528E66BC1
Which, when clicked, _still_ tried to download more stuff from the net.
Finally, when I was able to read the XML file, the question may have
been partially mooted (mootified?) simply because the contents the backup
contained are rather uninspiring.
Nonetheless, the question arises as to what's a good free Windows XML editor?
And, why do these freeware SMS backup programs choose XML format anyway?
<https://i.postimg.cc/L5WsCrNq/xml01.jpg>
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What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> - 2020-04-21 23:05 +0530
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-04-21 13:51 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> - 2020-04-21 23:41 +0530
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-04-21 16:45 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> - 2020-04-22 07:43 +0530
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-04-21 23:13 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> - 2020-04-22 10:13 +0530
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-04-22 01:56 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> - 2020-04-22 12:51 +0530
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2020-04-22 08:24 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-22 16:21 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2020-04-22 16:42 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-22 19:15 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2020-04-22 20:17 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-22 21:35 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2020-04-23 09:10 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-23 12:46 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2020-04-23 13:15 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-23 13:25 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? Arlen Holder <arlenholder@anyexample.com> - 2020-04-23 22:55 +0530
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-23 13:29 -0400
Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2020-04-21 14:03 -0400
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