escaping xml in intellij 14 - intellij-idea

in Intellij, I'm looking for a single keystroke method to transform escaped XML to XML and vice versa I've looked at macros with a file find/replace but they are not doing what I need - any suggestions?
e.g.
<Alpha>
<Beta>3030</Beta>
<Beta>3030</Beta>
</Alpha>
TO
<Alpha>
<Beta>3030</Beta>
<Beta>3030</Beta>
</Alpha>

Take a look at this plugin, it can do what you want and much more in terms of escaping and string manipulation in general.
You can bind some custom shortcut to Escape XML and Unescape XML actions. Or you can hit SHIFT+ALT+M and then 8 to escape or SHIFT+ALT+M and then 9 to unescape by default.
It's probably not the exact solution you're looking for, but hopefully it will help.

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How to write an XPath to select text with a quote & comma character?

How can I select a XPath that contains a text with both quote & comma character?
I have to find an element if the text contains =Yes, It's OK
My XPath does not save in ranorex tool even though if i put the text inside the double quotes like below
//span[text()="Yes, It's OK"]
So how can I save this xpath that uses "".in Ranorex
your use of double-quotes is correct. if
//span[text()="Yes, It's OK"]
doesn't match, it might be because the xpath engine has a lowercase bug (i have encountered PHP+DOMXPath+libxml2 systems where it would only match lowercase text even for text with uppercase characters, never quite figured out the problem there), or it might be because the text has hidden whitespace you're not aware of, maybe it actually has a hard-to-spot whitespace at the start or the end? anyway maybe contains() will work:
//span[contains(text(),"Yes, It's OK"]
or.. if it has the lowercase-issue i have encountered in the wild once before, maybe this will work:
//span[contains(text(),"yes, it's ok"]
(that really shouldn't be required, but i have been in that situation once before, and that was years ago, and that was... probably php5)

Multi-line text in a .env file

In vue, is there a way to have a value span multiple lines in an .env file. Ex:
Instead of:
someValue=[{"someValue":"Here is a really really long piece which should be split into multiple lines"}]
I want to do something like:
someValue=`[{"someValue":"Here is a really
really long piece which
should be split into multiple lines"}]`
Doing the latter gives me a JSON parsing error if I try to do JSON.parse(someValue) in my code
I don't know if this will work, but I can't format a comment appropriately enough to get the point across so see if this will work:
someValue=[{"someValue":"Here is a really\
really long piece which\
should be split into multiple lines"}]
Where "\" should escape the newline similar to how you can write long bash commands while escaping the newline. I'm not certain the .env interpreter will support it though.
EDIT
Looks like this won't work. This syntax was actually proposed, but I don't think it was incorporated. See motdotla/dotenv#333 (which is what Vue uses to parse .env).
Like #zero298 said, this isn't possible. Likely you could delimit the entry with a character that wouldn't show up normally in the text (^ is a good candidate), then parse it within the application using string.replace('^', '\n');

awk pattern to match an XML PI at the start of a line

I have an XML document containing a number of XML Processing Instructions which are of the form:
<?cpdoc something?>
I am trying to match them in awk with the pattern
/^\<\?cpdoc/
but it's not returning anything. If I remove the ^ anchor, it works (but I have other similar PIs which don't start a line which I don't want matched).
It looks as if it's being confused by the \<\? but why is it ignoring the line-start anchor?
Don't parse XML with regex, use a proper XML/HTML parser.
theory :
According to the compiling theory, XML can't be parsed using regex based on finite state machine. Due to hierarchical construction of XML you need to use a pushdown automaton and manipulate LALR grammar using tool like YACC.
realLife©®™ everyday tool in a shell :
You can use one of the following :
xmllint
xmlstarlet
saxon-lint (my own project)
Check: Using regular expressions with HTML tags
Example using xpath :
xmllint --xpath '//processing-instruction()' file.xml
Solution by OP and explanation by Ed Morton.
It works if the less-than is not escaped, as otherwise it's a word boundary. So instead of:
\<\?
I should use literal:
<\?
This is because we can't just go escaping any character and hoping for the best, we have to know which characters are metacharacters and then escape them if we want them treated as literal.

Format TSQL onto one line

Our company uses an old app which reads TSQL from a .INI file. Due to how the app process the INI file the TSQL has to be all on one line. I use Poor Mans TSQL Formatter to get everything nice and tidy for things like SPs, but am wondering if there's something out there to do the reverse - take nicely formatted TSQL and shove it all onto one line (removing carriage returns , line breaks etc).
I'm working in SSMS but also use Notepad++, and will happily use some other editor if it has the functionality.
Using Notepad++ (Without any plugin)
After lot's of googling I found that there are no plugins like TextFX and PoorMansTSqlFormatter are available in x64 bit version of notepad++ even not needed.
Notepad++ --> Write Query --> Edit --> Blank Options --> Remove Unnecessary Blank and EOL.
That's it.
Using Notepad++
Select the statement that is over multiple lines then on the menu: TextFX>TextFX Edit>Unwrap Text
And for even greater ease you can assign it to a keyboard shortcut using the shortcut mapper (Settings>Shortcut Mapper)
You can use the minify comment to remove all the unnecessary space in the Poor Mans TSQL Formatter
[minify]
[/minify]
I like Martin's answer and that is probably the way to go. But I'll point out that you can just use string manipulation to turn carriage returns and line feeds into spaces. This is particularly easy in the later versions of SSMS that enable limted use of regex in the find/replace dialog.
In SQL Server 2012:
Highlight the selected text and use 'Find and Replace' (ctrl + h)
Check: use Regular Expressions
Find: \n
Replace with: LEAVE BLANK

define a long complex literal string

I have a string that is quite long and complicated, with special characters inside. I want to define this string as a variable, but don't want to escape each of them (because there are so many). I remember that in XML they have a special syntax for that, is there something similar for Objective-C?
Edit: I know I can save the thing in a file and load it easily, but is it possible to do so without a new file? I'm having quite some of them...
No, you have to escape the characters (though you only have to escape ", \, and control characters... is the string mostly control characters and quotes?)
A better idea might be to put the string in a file. Load it using +[NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:].