IntelliJ edit form XML
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Hey,
I know that you are not supposed to edit the XML of a form, as numerous answers on this forum as well as on stackoverflow indicate. But I believe that I have either a possible reason to allow it anyway.
I want to copy one form to a new form, but the form is actually XML code from an SVN repository. Would there be another way to accomplish this? So I have the XML of a form from a few months old, and now I want to create a new form with this XML.
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You can do it in some external editor.
@Serge Baranov.
Considering IntelliJ is an editor, it is odd to me that this is not supported. Even though they have other support for working with forms. This sounds a bit like a missing feature, for no good reason. Well, I assume the reason is to protect the user from writing invalid XML.
I can understand that, but the posibility should at least be there. I solved it using a workaround with local history though.
There is a related request to open the form as XML: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-4742.