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    Cee Qhawekazi Mhlongo
    last edited by Jan 21, 2019, 11:04 AM

    Hi i’m trying to get the XML tool plugins butim getting how to install option under xml tools. Please assist.

    M 1 Reply Last reply Jan 21, 2019, 11:18 AM Reply Quote 0
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      Meta Chuh moderator @Cee Qhawekazi Mhlongo
      last edited by Jan 21, 2019, 11:18 AM

      welcome to the notepad++ community, @Cee-Qhawekazi-Mhlongo

      first please upgrade your existing notepad++ to 7.6.2 with the installer from here
      (choose 32 or 64 bit, installer exe, or portable zip, depending on your current installation)
      start notepad++.exe and open plugins admin as shown in this screenshot:

      Imgur

      now enter xml in the search field and hit next until you see xml tools, select it as seen in this screenshot and hit install:

      Imgur

      after the install you will have the full xml tools menu:

      Imgur

      i hope this helps you.

      note: for further information or guides, we will need your debug information. please go to the notepad++ menu ? > debug info > copy debug info into clipboard and paste the information here

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        Cee Qhawekazi Mhlongo
        last edited by Jan 21, 2019, 11:36 AM

        It doesn’t install after i select it nothing happens

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          Meta Chuh moderator @Cee Qhawekazi Mhlongo
          last edited by Jan 21, 2019, 2:00 PM

          thank you for your response, @Cee-Qhawekazi-Mhlongo

          It doesn’t install after i select it nothing happens

          for further information or guides, we will need your debug information. please go to the notepad++ menu ? > debug info > copy debug info into clipboard and paste the information here

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            John Travers
            last edited by Jan 28, 2019, 9:12 PM

            I have the same problem…here’s my debug info:

            Notepad++ v7.5.9 (32-bit)
            Build time : Oct 14 2018 - 15:02:52
            Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
            Admin mode : OFF
            Local Conf mode : OFF
            OS : Windows 7 (64-bit)
            Plugins : NppExport.dll HTMLTag_unicode.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NPPJSONViewer.dll nppplugin_solutionhub.dll nppplugin_solutionhub_ui.dll nppplugin_svn.dll PluginManager.dll XMLTools.dll

            I run as a non-admin, but am prompted and provide correct admin account creds when NP++ asks for it. the xmltools.dll is placed in the plugins subfolder. The “How to install” popup says: Please install external DLLs into NPP root directory… I even tried that and did not work

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              Meta Chuh moderator @John Travers
              last edited by Meta Chuh Jan 29, 2019, 1:14 AM Jan 28, 2019, 10:26 PM

              welcome to the notepad++ community, @John-Travers

              yes, i can reproduce this perfectly on notepad++ 7.5.9 using the old “Plugin Manager”.
              the maximum i can get is the same xml tools “how to install” pop up window you see.

              you will need to upgrade to 7.6.3 to get the new “plugins admin” as the old “plugin manager” seems to produce this if you try to install xml tools with it.

              first please upgrade your existing notepad++ to 7.6.3 with the 32 bit updater/installer from >>> here <<<.
              (note: you don’t have to uninstall your current notepad++ 7.5.9, just run the npp.7.6.3.Installer.exe and install it over your current version)

              after that start notepad++.exe and open “plugins admin” as shown at this screenshot:
              important: do not use the old “plugin manager”, as it will not put plugins to the correct locations of newer notepad versions 7.6.0 to 7.6.3.

              Imgur

              now enter xml in the search field and hit next until you see xml tools, select it as seen in this screenshot and hit install.
              (you will now be prompted for your administrator credentials)

              Imgur

              after the install you will have the full xml tools menu:

              Imgur

              note: if you need other plugins as well, you will also have to re-install them using the official “plugins admin”

              if you need older plugins, that are not available in “plugins admin” we can guide you where to put them manually
              (eg. if you had old plugins before, they will have to be moved, as the plugins subfolder structure has changed a bit).

              i hope this helps you.

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                Gabriel Poulin
                last edited by Feb 1, 2019, 2:20 PM

                I have been struggling trying to make XML Tools appear for the past 2 days and have not been successful.
                I have uninstalled all I had, reinstalled 7.6.3 from scratch but everytime I click to install XML Tools, a windows admin popup window comes up, I select Yes to proceed then N++ loads up and still no XML Tools.
                I have followed the instructions to a tee. Anyone else having the same issue where XML Tools just stopped working and will not appear after installing it using the Plugins Admin that comes with N++ 7.6.3?

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                  PeterJones
                  last edited by Feb 1, 2019, 2:59 PM

                  @Gabriel-Poulin ,

                  After you do the install procedure, and “N++ loads up and still no XML Tools”: please go to the menu ? > Debug Info > Copy debug info to clipboard and paste in your reply to this topic. Also, what does your %Program Files%\Notepad++\Plugins directory look like? copy/paste the dir from a cmd.exe window, or embed an screenshot of explorer using the ![](https://url.to/image.png)-syntax for an externally-hosted image (such as imgur.com).

                  We need this information to be able to determine whether it’s that the install didn’t happen (right), or whether something else is going wrong.

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                    Gabriel Poulin
                    last edited by Feb 1, 2019, 4:43 PM

                    The dubug info:

                    Notepad++ v7.6.3 (32-bit)
                    Build time : Jan 27 2019 - 17:20:30
                    Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
                    Admin mode : OFF
                    Local Conf mode : OFF
                    OS : Windows 10 (64-bit)
                    Plugins : DSpellCheck.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

                    Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins

                    02/01/2019 09:03 AM <DIR> .
                    02/01/2019 09:03 AM <DIR> …
                    01/31/2019 01:56 PM <DIR> ComparePlugin
                    01/31/2019 01:56 PM 213,504 ComparePlugin.dll
                    02/01/2019 09:03 AM <DIR> Config
                    01/31/2019 01:58 PM <DIR> doc
                    02/01/2019 09:03 AM <DIR> DSpellCheck
                    02/01/2019 09:03 AM <DIR> mimeTools
                    02/01/2019 09:03 AM <DIR> NppConverter
                    02/01/2019 09:03 AM <DIR> NppExport
                    01/31/2019 01:57 PM 2,728,960 NppFTP.dll
                    01/31/2019 01:55 PM 497,152 PluginManager.dll
                    01/31/2019 01:58 PM 81,920 SpellChecker.dll
                    01/31/2019 01:58 PM 2,131,968 XMLTools.dll
                    5 File(s) 5,653,504 bytes
                    9 Dir(s) 275,868,667,904 bytes free

                    C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins>


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                      PeterJones
                      last edited by PeterJones Feb 1, 2019, 4:52 PM Feb 1, 2019, 4:51 PM

                      Okay, so that says that it didn’t even try to write the XML Tools DLL.

                      Next experiment: follow @Meta-Chuh’s advice in https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/17030/how-to-get-a-plugin-in-notepad-v7-6/5 (hover-over shows timestamp of 2019-02-01T15:47:10.780Z) – close all instances of Notepad++; download a portable zipfile 7.6.3 32bit, unzip into a folder on your desktop (or other temporary location); run notepad++.exe from the portable directory, use Plugins > Plugins Admin to install XML Tools in your portable version; check to make sure it installed, and/or give the portable’s DebugInfo and portable directory listing for the ...\plugins\ portable directory…

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                        Meta Chuh moderator @Gabriel Poulin
                        last edited by Meta Chuh Feb 3, 2019, 4:45 PM Feb 2, 2019, 12:53 AM

                        @Gabriel-Poulin

                        thank you for taking the time to provide us with your debug data, your dir listing, and your screenshots, as well as your patience for the last 2 days, it’s much appreciated and welcome to the club of patient people 😉.

                        we are looking forward to read your results, after you’ve tested a portable version as suggested by @PeterJones.
                        direct portable download link to npp.7.6.3.bin.zip

                        if you want to install xmltools manually right now, until we figured out how we could help to fix your specific case:

                        • please download xmltools manually from here: https://github.com/morbac/xmltools/releases/download/2.4.11.0/Xml.Tools.2.4.11.0.x86.Unicode.zip

                        • extract Xml.Tools.2.4.11.0.x86.Unicode.zip anywhere to a temporary location

                        • create a folder XMLTools inside of C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\

                        • copy the files XMLTools.dll and change.log as well as the whole folder libs from the extracted Xml.Tools.2.4.11.0.x86.Unicode folder to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\XMLTools

                        • restart notepad++ (only necessary if it was opened while copying the xmltools plugin to it’s folder destination)


                        if you are interested on some tech info (reading can be skipped freely, as it does not contain any solutions):

                        01/31/2019 01:58 PM 2,131,968 XMLTools.dll

                        this looks very strange and i don’t fully understand it yet:

                        the xmltools.dll is inside the plugins folder, but outside of it’s (missing) xmltools sub folder.
                        it has been “created” yesterday, so it is definitively downloaded either by plugins admin or plugins manager, and not manually, put there as both do not preserve the original dll creation time (when extracted by gpup.exe or gup.exe), reflecting only the installation date.

                        now if it would have been extracted by the new plugins admin, it would have created the libs folder as well, and that one is also missing.

                        if it would have been installed by the old plugin manager, you would find zlib1.dll directly inside of C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\ with the same creation date as your XMLTools.dll.

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                          Gabriel Poulin
                          last edited by Feb 4, 2019, 4:41 PM

                          I followed the instructions in the other thread where I deleted everything N++ from my the hard drive and registry (there was over 100 + in there due to all the manual file extension settings I had put in the past 7 years).
                          I also tried the test temp location stand alone on a desktop folder, same issue.

                          The only way I was able to make it work was via Manually copying the files in the XMLTools folder I created in Plugins. That worked, thank!

                          It could be because I am on a corp latop behind a corp firewall too?

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                            Meta Chuh moderator @Gabriel Poulin
                            last edited by Meta Chuh Feb 4, 2019, 6:20 PM Feb 4, 2019, 6:13 PM

                            thanks @Gabriel-Poulin for reporting back.
                            we’re glad to hear that you got it running with a manual install. 👍

                            It could be because I am on a corp latop behind a corp firewall too?

                            o.m.g… yes, i am so sorry, this time i completely forgot to ask if you are behind a corporate proxy or firewall. 😳 my sincere apologies.

                            if you are behind a proxy, you can set it at the notepad++ menu ? > set updater proxy as seen at the screenshot below, as long as you know the proxy server address and port.

                            note: usually you can find the proxy settings at the connection settings of your browser.

                            Imgur

                            enter your company’s proxy server ip address and port number here as seen at the next screenshot.
                            (note: do not use the example ip and port, they will not work, except if your company uses the same values by coincidence)

                            Imgur

                            note: currently notepad++ does not support proxy authentication (user name and password), so it will not work, if your corporate proxy/firewall needs user credentials.

                            Chris WernerC 1 Reply Last reply Feb 10, 2020, 7:21 PM Reply Quote 3
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                              Gabriel Poulin
                              last edited by Feb 6, 2019, 2:56 PM

                              that won’t work as my proxy does require login creds.
                              I will leave it as it is for the manual installation, at least that got me going and I can stop pulling any hairs I may have left :)

                              Thanks all for your help

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                                oryz
                                last edited by Jul 11, 2019, 9:51 AM

                                Hey guys, can I thread hijack (as I am having the exact same issue, except for me the manual method doesn’t work as well)?

                                I’m also behind a corporate firewall, except I don’t even know what my proxy server IP address is (it’s configured via a script).

                                Debug info:
                                Notepad++ v7.7.1 (32-bit)
                                Build time : Jun 16 2019 - 21:14:50
                                Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
                                Admin mode : OFF
                                Local Conf mode : OFF
                                OS : Windows 7 (64-bit)
                                Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

                                Dir:
                                Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\XML Tools

                                11/07/2019 07:32 PM <DIR> .
                                11/07/2019 07:32 PM <DIR> …
                                21/11/2018 08:02 AM 9,116 change.log
                                21/11/2018 08:02 AM <DIR> libs
                                22/11/2018 06:47 AM 2,131,968 XMLTools.dll
                                2 File(s) 2,141,084 bytes

                                Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\XML Tools\libs

                                21/11/2018 08:02 AM <DIR> .
                                21/11/2018 08:02 AM <DIR> …
                                19/03/2015 09:56 PM 1,281,639 libiconv-2.dll
                                19/03/2015 09:56 PM 75,496 libwinpthread-1.dll
                                19/03/2015 09:56 PM 4,535,910 libxml2-2.dll
                                19/03/2015 09:56 PM 941,389 libxslt-1.dll
                                19/03/2015 09:56 PM 103,424 zlib1.dll
                                5 File(s) 6,937,858 bytes

                                 Total Files Listed:
                                           7 File(s)      9,078,942 bytes
                                

                                Thanks!

                                EkopalypseE dinkumoilD 2 Replies Last reply Jul 11, 2019, 10:58 AM Reply Quote 0
                                • EkopalypseE
                                  Ekopalypse @oryz
                                  last edited by Jul 11, 2019, 10:58 AM

                                  @oryz

                                  as you have Local Conf mode : OFF I would have expected that your plugins
                                  get loaded from appdata directory instead of the installation directory.
                                  Your listing, in general, looks good to me.

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                                  • dinkumoilD
                                    dinkumoil @oryz
                                    last edited by Jul 11, 2019, 1:57 PM

                                    @Ekopalypse said:

                                    as you have Local Conf mode : OFF I would have expected that your plugins
                                    get loaded from appdata directory instead of the installation directory.

                                    Uhm, I think that was the case back in the days of Npp v7.6 …

                                    @oryz

                                    The plugin directory is namd XML Tools (note the space character between them) but it should be XMLTools (exactly like the plugin DLL name without the .dll extension).

                                    EkopalypseE oryzO 2 Replies Last reply Jul 11, 2019, 4:10 PM Reply Quote 2
                                    • EkopalypseE
                                      Ekopalypse @dinkumoil
                                      last edited by Jul 11, 2019, 4:10 PM

                                      @dinkumoil

                                      Uhm, I think that was the case back in the days of Npp v7.6 …

                                      Are you sure? I’m somehow reluctant to install npp to test.

                                      The plugin directory is named XML Tools

                                      looks like it is, if we can take the directory listing as granted

                                      Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\XML Tools\libs

                                      dinkumoilD 1 Reply Last reply Jul 11, 2019, 6:17 PM Reply Quote 0
                                      • dinkumoilD
                                        dinkumoil @Ekopalypse
                                        last edited by dinkumoil Jul 11, 2019, 6:18 PM Jul 11, 2019, 6:17 PM

                                        @Ekopalypse said:

                                        Are you sure?

                                        Yes, of course. Local installations of Notepad++ (created by installer) since v7.6.3 store plugins in

                                        • %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\plugins\<Plugin name> (32 bit OS)
                                        • %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins\<Plugin name> (64 bit OS, 32 bit Npp)
                                        • %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\plugins\<Plugin name> (64 bit OS, 64 bit Npp)
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                                        • oryzO
                                          oryz @dinkumoil
                                          last edited by Jul 16, 2019, 2:18 AM

                                          @dinkumoil said:

                                          The plugin directory is namd XML Tools (note the space character between them) but it should be XMLTools (exactly like the plugin DLL name without the .dll extension).

                                          I think this was it! I actually ended up resolving the issue by disconnecting from the work VPN (I was at home) and then the Plugin Admin worked… You are right it installed the plugin in :
                                          %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins\XMLTools\ [NO SPACE] (64 bit OS, 32 bit Npp)

                                          It would be nice if NPP Plugin Admin would notify the user when it fails to connect to the plugin repository.

                                          Hopefully this would help others trying to install the plugin manually.

                                          Thanks for the help!

                                          dinkumoilD 1 Reply Last reply Jul 16, 2019, 8:39 AM Reply Quote 2
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