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Microsoft Visual Studio +1 over eclipse for xml editing

I just spent the last hour "futzing" with eclipse to edit a large xml file that I was writing an XSL for.  Eclipse would crash, and hard.  I had lots of memory allocated to it (about 1gb). 

Out of frustration, I fired up Microsoft Visual Studio, and copied and pasted my xml into the file, and IT WAS AUTOMATICALLY FORMATTED!  Awesome.  Even if I could get eclipse not to crash, it took a minute for it to format the xml.

The only issue I had was trying to move the xml file from my MAC copy buffer over the my parallels instance of Visual Interdev.  I ended up laying the xml file on the file system, and browsing to it from my Parallels windows instance.

Definitely going to head straight to the Microsoft tools for xml editing of this nature.  Why did I suffer!

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