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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.freeware, comp.text.xml |
| Subject | Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows? |
| Date | 2020-04-22 01:56 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Cross-posted to 3 groups.
Arlen Holder wrote:
> In response to what Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote :
>
>> If you have a 384MB file of unknown type, you can pop it into HxD for
>> a look.
>>
>> https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Thanks for the hex editor suggestion.
>
> I popped the XML file into hxd which shows pretty clearly there is ASCII
> and binary, where the binary is surrounded by <parts>xxx</parts> tags in
> some instances. <https://i.postimg.cc/26LJtdmC/xml04.jpg>
>
> It "could" be text plus images, where nothing I saw didn't indicate that to
> be the case, but of course, I'm reading hex code to determine that.
> <https://i.postimg.cc/kXLV3qx9/xml05.jpg>
>
> I was hoping a good XML editor would parse out the photos.
> o Maybe I just need a _better_ XML editor for Windows?
>
> However, one slightly indirect option to figure out if the archive contains
> images is to delete all the SMS texts on the phone and then try to restore
> them, which would be a pain, but it would definitively answer the question
> of whether the backed up XML archives contain MMS images.
>
> But that's why I asked for an XML editor to read the XML archive file! o
> I'm assuming a good XML editor would be able to parse the XML file.
The stuff before the /parts is BASE64 or ASCII85.
Converting it from the textual encoding evident in your picture,
to its original binary form, that wouldn't work well in a text editor.
Should an "editor" recognize every multimedia type in existence,
like the 500+ things the Linux "file" command recognizes ? Once the
ASCII85 is converted back to binary format, now we'd have to recognize
what it was by signature.
I'm not even sure that XML is intended for this kind of encapsulation.
Normally the XML files I've seen, they contain configuration information,
single lines with filenames or the like. To pour binary into the file
in a less efficient BASE64 or ASCII85 format, seems a bit on the silly side.
Maybe it succeeds at making the result "portable".
An editor that in any way thought it was dealing with text, would
suffer from the "Notepad problem". Where the average text editor
designer, cannot seem to handle memory management worth a damn,
and there's always an artificially low limit to the file size.
Currently on the best of days now, Notepad is still less than
around 1GB or so. At least Notepad (on Windows 10), doesn't
suck like it used to. You can do find and replace now, and it
actually works.
Paul
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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
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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
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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
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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
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