XML is a file extension, short for eXtendable Markup Language. XML can be used to exchange, share, and store data.

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How do I get a list of all applications that can be executed from Ubuntu Dash Home? Is there is some xml file that stores this information?

I'm building an application and it's very important to me to know how to get this information. In LXDE, there is /usr/share/lubuntu/openbox/menu.xml that lists all the programs that can be executed ...
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How to open .xmi files

Is there any app that can open .xmi files in Ubuntu? File created in the XMI (XML Metadata Interchange) format, an XML file format most commonly used for exchanging UML diagrams; stores model design ...
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A script to monitor new files in folder so I can add them to an external XML files

I want to monitor (by cron, I got that part covered :P) new audio files in folders so I can add them toa separate XML files which act as an podcast RSS feed. The file structure looks like this: - ...
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How do I stop XML Copy Editor from crashing when opening a file?

I tried installing XML Copy Editor, and whenever I try to open an XML file in it, it crashes. It seems like it just shuts off, as though I clicked close, because it doesn't generate and error log. How ...
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Load configuration from XML (Xfconf)

I'm trying to make an app to switch your XFCE4-Panel's layout between 3 layouts. I applied those layouts and copied the XML file where Xfconf stores its configuration for the panel. The general idea ...
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PDF to XML sure thing, but the other way around?

This is my first post so excuse me if I'm breaking any conventions. Well the thing is I'm developing a long term archive system in Ubuntu environment. For different reasons XML is a very strong ...
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Do dconf use EXI binary XML?

A question came to my mind reading an answer to the question What are the differences between gconf and dconf?. In an reply to the above question, Oli said: Binary read access is far faster than ...
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Visual editor for xslt

I was wondering if it is included in Ubuntu any GUI tool to support the creation of xslt -- bonus points if it also shows how it transforms some reference xml source as I write the xslt document. ...
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How to interpret the contents of ~/.gconf?

Consider a key like /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/cycle_windows I can access this this key using gconf-editor. However when I cd to ~/.gconf/apps/metacity I find an empty file named ...
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How can I 'span' images in wallpapers.xml

I'm trying to set up some Backgrounds and wrote a custom xml for that (later on I want to make a custom slideshow of these). The images should span over my dual monitor. $ cat ...
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Print text between two XML tags

Consider the following excerpt from a large XML file: ... <serverName someKey="false" anotherKey="0.05" thirdKey="0.04"> <default>blah.blah.blah</default> <region ...
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How do I increase the terminal border size in xfce?

The terminal (and other applications) borders seem to be only 1 pixel wide which makes them almost impossible to click. I am aware that alt+right click has the same function, but I need the borders ...
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How do I install CDK - The Chemical Development Kit from the tarball?

If you need to download the tarball yourself to know how to help me here's the file. I'm running 12.10 if it is relevant. I don't know where to go in installing CDK I know the README file says to ...
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xsltproc killed, out of memory

I'm trying to split up a 13GB xml file into small ~50MB xml files with this XSLT style sheet. But this process kills xsltproc after I see it taking up over 1.7GB of memory (that's the total on the ...
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Convert XML to CSV shell command line

I have a Large XML file (600MB) and i want to convert that into CSV through Terminal Commands. I have tried to convert the XML into TXT through xml2 command using the following syntax. xml2 < ...
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Theme ListView text pulled from XML?

I've been working on my msm touch app and got to a point were I get the needed info from an XML file, but it is unthemed, and not as good looking as other "direct" text is. Its black and further to ...
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Is there any good `XPATH` evaluator like `xpathvisualization` in `windows notepad++`

I am using Ubuntu13.04. I am looking for any good XPATH evaluator like xpathvisualization in windows notepad++. I need it to test xpath expression for my XMLs. Can anyone suggest any?
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Generating menu in ubuntu

I want to change GUI menu of ubuntu. That is, I want to add a icon at the menu (top of screen), after clicking that a menu will be shown and selecting particular option will run a particular ...
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ODT via DocBook XML and template XSL becomes XSL-FO to fop to become PDF [closed]

Well I recently asked a question about getting a PDF-file to become an XML-file and then return it to a PDF-file preferably exactly the same as the original, but at least almost the same. I've been ...
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Reformating xml document [closed]

I have an xml document in the format below: <key>value</key> <key>value</key> <key>value</key> But need to convert it to the following: <tag k='key' ...
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Split a large XML file by a certain node into smaller files

I've got a XML file with 1GB (about 6000000 Lines). The goal is to split this file into smaller .xml files with more or less 20000 lines each. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> ...