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Figure 9.6. XML Notepad won’t load invalid XML documents.
Save the file, and make sure it now passes the validation. An XML editor
will always export valid XML documents, so it will make sure that the <camera
is matched with the corresponding camera/> end tag automatically. This alone
makesanXMLeditorsabettertooltoeditCOLLADAdocuments.
XML notepad will refuse to open nonvalid XML documents. Let’s try to open
the duck-err1.dae document; it throws an error, the same error reported by our
validator, and proposes to edit the file with the default notepad, which is not
recommended in general. Editing nonvalid XML documents is best done ...