Simple XML Viewer app

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
node.js, xml

Research direction

Start by reviewing the repository structure and the existing XML viewer linked in the issue. Compare the requested URL parameter, parsed and consistently indented display, GitHub-like appearance, and horizontal scrolling with the referenced GitHub XML view. Done means a usable web-page or Node app that renders XML in this form.

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Description

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I would love to have a very simple XML viewer app. I have one that I don't like very much. The app would run in a web page or on a server (if so, must be a Node app). It takes a url parameter, displays the contents of the file, parsed and indented consistently, and uses the same display that GitHub uses to display code, though it doesn't need any of the GH features, just the appearance. Horizontal scrolling, not wrapping text. I would use it in my existing app, with credit of course. I need this because my work requires me to look at XML files. And as far as I know there isn't a great way to do that, and given all the XML that's out there (web pages are XML, RSS feeds are XML) it would make sense to solve this problem well, as a very useful upgrade to the user experience of the web.

Dominant language
HTML
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134
Forks
10
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No merged PRs in 30d

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