Determines the default behavior to use for all editors, (by default all editors will use these setting).

Indent Size

The number of columns used for a tab. This is also the number of columns XML data will be indented by.

Use

Tabs - a tab is used to for each indent.

Spaces - a number of spaces characters is used for each indent.

Show Line Numbers

Indicates if line numbers should be shown in the left hand margin

Show Whitespace

Non-visible characters like spaces and tabs are shown in the editor (default is off).

Word Wrap

Line lines are wrapped when displayed in the editor (default is off).

Enable Macros

Enabled keyboard macros to be recorded and played back (default is enabled).

Show XML Tooltips

If this is true the tooltips are shown within the XML Code Editor when a element/attribute is hovered over.

Indent Attributes

If this is checked then when attributes are auto formatted then they are placed one per line. If it's not checked then they are all placed on the same line as the opening element.

Ignore Significant Whitespace Formatting XML

Causes leading and trailing whitespace to be ignored (default is false). Whitespace before and after data contained within an XML Element is considered to be significant to most parsers. It will therefore be preserved when formatting your XML documents, which can cause them to look verbose. Consider the XML sample.

The following XML is formatted as follows

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<library>
<book id="b0836217462" available="yes">
<isbn>
   08362   17462
</isbn>
</book>
</library>

Formatting and respecting the Significant whitespace (i.e. unchecked) will result in the following (note the data within the isbn element is the same, but it's not cleanly formatted).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<library>
    <book id="b0836217462" available="yes">
        <isbn>
   08362   17462
</isbn>
    </book>
</library>

Formatting and ignoring the Significant whitespace (i.e. checked) will result in the following (note the data within the isbn element has changed, the leading and trailing whitespace has been removed).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<library>
    <book id="b0836217462" available="yes">
        <isbn>08362   17462</isbn>
    </book>
</library>