Nxml (Native XML) Mode

Native XML mode is a GNU Emacs major mode for editing XML files. It is known to work with EMACS version 21.3.2.

The latest version is version 0.1. You can download it here.

Features

Nxml mode currently supports the following features:

• Font-locking with customizable faces.
• Automatic synchronization of start and end tags names. If you change the name of one tag, the matching tag automatically changes.
• Navigation commands and key bindings loosely based on the standard emacs "sexp" commands.
• An indentation engine that supports alignment of attributes.
• "Electric" versions of the keys "<", "/", ">", newline, and backspace that perform a small amount of autocompletion.
• Preliminary support for paragraph filling.
• Full understanding of document structure. Nxml mode doesn't approximate XML using regular expressions. It uses custom parsing code that implements a variant of the XML specification. Strictly speaking, the parsing is not XML compliant because it doesn't catch very many well-formedness errors (this is by design, since a document under construction is rarely well-formed). But any well-formed document should be correctly parsed by Nxml mode.