Notepad++ in combination with the XML Tools Plugin and the XidML schema is a smart way to validate XidML files (basically any XML file where you have a schema). You can play by editing the XidML sample to check how the validation works and how validation error messages will look like. When installing Notepad++, ensure that the XML tools Plugin is installed. As the title implies, this procedure can be applied to any XML file, for which there's a schema available. For the screenshots, Notepad++ v8.1.9.2 and XidML 3.0.0 was used. The following steps should give a short introduction of using Notepad++, XML tools plugin and the XidML schema to validate XidML files. XidML provides the schema along with sample XidML files at To create, modify, debug AND validate XidML files, you might use the free editor Notepad++ with the XML tools Plugin. To help the user applying the rules and creating well formed and valid XidML files, a schema is available as "*.xsd" files which contains the rules for XidML files and its elements. You need also to apply those rules and work with XidML files. Because it's one thing to define and understand the rules and specifications of the XidML standard. One of the advantages of XML is, that such files can be validated. XidML is a specific way to describe a Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) configuration. In one of the last articles of European Society of Telemetry (EST) here on LinkedIn, the XidML standard was introduced, which utilizes a XML-based language. The content of such files can be displayed with common text editors which are available for any OS in many variants. Working with text based files has the big advantage - despite binary files - that they are human readable.
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