View source for Xml

XML-files ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML Wikipedia]) are used a lot in BotF2.

== <nowiki><!-- comment --></nowiki> ==

'''<nowiki>
 <!-- means that next text/lines are simply a comment, not a code. End of this is/must be -->'''
</nowiki>

Sometimes this is also used to deactivate some part of code which is standardly not used. For example just look into MusicPacks.xml.

== Visual Studio ==

might be a little bit different, depending on version of [[Source Code|Visual Studio]] and on language (most here is taken from German versions 2008, 2010 or 2013)

=== open a xml ===

just drag'n'drop the file to Visual Studio (right click and "open with" might also work)

=== Editor ===

==== show line numbers ====

> EXTRAS > OPTIONS > TEXTEDITOR > ALL LANGUAGES > GENERAL: line numbers

==== show space ====

> EDIT > ADVANCED: STRG+E, S

==== optimize ====

> EDIT > ADVANCED: STRG+E, D (whole document) or STRG+E, F (only marked area)