View xml files like a pro

Viewing XML files can be daunting with tracking mentally where the tag starts and where it ends. So, I ended up with the following alias to help me view xml files

xmllint --format - | pygmentize -f 16m -O style=native -g

xmlwf – Is your xml document well formed?

There is a small nifty utility called xmlwf that can check your xml documents to see if they are well formed.

sudo yum install expat

Once installed, simply use :

xmlwf

Need more details, just check the man page 🙂

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Script to get yourself some conkyrc files

Continuing from where we left, here is a script that can do all this for you 🙂

curl http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865\&page=$i | sed -n '/\\/pr/ p'| sed '// d'| sed 's##\n-----------------------------------\n\n\n#' >conkyrc
	dos2unix conkyrc
	cp conkyrc .test
	while [ $(wc -l .test|sed 's/[^0-9]//g') != 0 ]
	do
		sed -n '1,/------------------------/ p' .test|sed '$d' >conkyrc.$count
		diff .test conkyrc.$count |sed 's/^<.//'|sed '1, /---------------------/ d;2d'>.test
		((count++))
	done

This will create couple of conkyrc.files in the current directory. Each of these is one from the web-page that I mentioned earlier. So, enjoy….

configuration for afraid-dyndns on Fedora and other similar distro.

First install afraid-dyndns with the command:

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Now open the configuration file /etc/afraid-dyndns.cfg and we need to change the following:

Notify = root@localhost # leave empty to suppress notifications
CacheFile = /var/cache/afraid-dyndns/IP
AccountHash =

For the Account hash, head over to http://freedns.afraid.org/api/ login and then click one of the XML or the ASCII links there. Once the page has loaded, look at the URL which is of form:

Solved -- Errors with afraid-dyndns in Goddard (Fedora 13)

Since I updated to the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 13, I was getting error from the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/dynamic_dns" title="Dynamic DNS" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS">Dynamic DNS client for afraid. I was not getting enough time to fix this, so finally I decided to fix this in the night itself 🙂

Problem:
On running

afraid-dyndns

I was getting the error:

Entity: line 100: <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/parsing" title="Parsing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing">parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: br line 99 and div

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