[Feature Request]: Read-only XML preview for pipelines and workflows
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- Java
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Description
### What would you like to happen?
For advanced users, contributors, and migration/support/debugging scenarios, it would be helpful to have a read-only preview of the underlying XML representation directly from the Hop GUI.
This feature would improve transparency, troubleshooting, learning, and version control workflows, without encouraging manual editing of XML files.
**Proposed behavior**
- Add an optional, read-only XML preview for pipelines and workflows.
- Accessible via an advanced or developer menu (not visible by default).
- Display the current in-memory representation (what will be saved).
- Support:
Syntax highlighting
Search
Copy to clipboard
Explicitly no editing of the XML from the UI.
### Issue Priority
Priority: 3
### Issue Component
Component: Hop Gui
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the Hop GUI editors for pipelines and workflows and the serialization path for their in-memory XML representation; done means both editors expose an optional read-only preview with syntax highlighting, search, and clipboard copying, without XML editing.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100