Re: [Pan-users] options to set correct posting profiles and delete groups not on servers

[Jim Henderson]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 06:00:31 -0000 (UTC), Duncan wrote:

> Strong second on search/replace for this sort of thing. Probably faster
> than a GUI would be for it anyway, and arguably more dependable, given
> the low usage and therefore low practical level of testing such a
> bulk-edit special-purpose pan function would likely get.  =:^)

One thing that I noticed as I was looking at this is that the group-
preferences.xml file isn't actually a well-formed XML document.  I was 
looking for a way to do an XPath-based search and replace (I'm familiar 
with using such a tool in the OxygenXML Editor, which is non-free), and 
found qxmledit as an alternative, but it refuses to open the file because 
it doesn't have a root element.

So it's XML-ish, but missing the top-most element makes it not a properly 
structured XML file.

That change might be an easier one to make in order for it to be able to 
be edited with a smart XML editor that can more easily search and replace 
based on the document structure rather than just a simple text search & 
replace.

It seems that the group-preferences.xml file is the only file that doesn't 
have a root document.

-- 
 Jim Henderson
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