https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359323
Bug ID: 359323
Summary: Ark should preview XML files in a text viewer, not a
web browser
Product: ark
Version: 2.19
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: elvis.angelac...@kdemail.net
Reporter: k...@dhardy.name
CC: rak...@freebsd.org
When I open an archive in Ark, then click on an XML file to view it, a window
opens displaying sometimes nothing and sometimes values from within some of the
tags (concatenated together in a meaningless sequence, since the context of
their tags is not visible). What I want to do is view the text (optionally with
syntax highlighting).
XML is a container format for "configuration" files. Only a small sub-set, such
as XHTML files and some XML files with embedded XSLT components, can actually
be rendered meaningfully in a web-browser.
Note: I have a feeling I've reported this before, but cannot find anything in
the bug-tracker.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
If you want an example, try opening one of the [OpenMalaria release
archives](https://github.com/SwissTPH/openmalaria/releases) in Ark. Most
contain at least one XML file, which if opened in Ark is displayed in a
completely meaningless way. Extracted then opened with KWrite or another text
editor the full document is visible.
(Note that the standard file associations seem to do the same thing and open in
a web browser by default — but this is easy to fix or work-around via
right-click, "open with ...". Ark is not, hence this report.)
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