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Re: What's a decent XML editor specifically for editing/viewing SMS messages copied from Android to Windows?

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 2020-04-21 13:51 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <r7nbr7$87t$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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Arlen Holder wrote:
> 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>

OK, so I seen in the question a mention of "SMS Backup & Restore",
which implies someone wants to make a storage format for their works,
one which can be parsed later using one of the available parsers.
You can prepare "databases" if you want, as XML has name:value pairs.
If they instead used a database format, it likely wouldn't be
crossplatform, and the people on some platform, would feel "ignored".

It doesn't necessarily suggest that people go around editing
the content of the files. If it's for backup and restore.

Perhaps a customer would like a "conversion" process, for converting
the payload section of the backup, into some other format. That
can be done with text processing languages and/or scripts. PERL
being an example.

If the bog-standard XML files need to be "pretty", a web site
like jsbeautifier.org loads some javascript in the browser
which does *local* processing of presented pasted materials.
The materials are not sent to the website for server processing.
Just the browser does the transformation. This would add things
like indentation to an improperly indented XML. If the damage
is severe enough (maybe no line endings), the javascript isn't
clever enough to resolve all issues of that type. But it can
improve the appearance, if you don't like what you see.

If I need to edit an XML for VirtualBox or VPC2007 or the like,
I just use Notepad for the couple lines needing modification.

    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
        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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