Mark Rogers wrote:
xmllint is installed so I'll play with it - a useful workaround so thanks.
I'm starting to think that I'm missing the point here...
I have formatted the file with xmllint, and it still takes a long time to load in any of the text editors (or Firefox) that I've tried. The formatted file is 76000 lines long, 3.7MB in size.
Obviously the line length was not the problem after all. Any suggestions for a good GUI editor that can handle large files?
I never had problems with large files in (eg) UltraEdit on Windows, but I've not succeeded in getting that running under Wine. (And I still don't think 4MB is large!)
Maybe I should give Eclipse another go; it eats memory for breakfast :-)