You can do this without additional plugins:

 - place cursor on the tag
 - &lt;kbd&gt;v&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;a&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;t&lt;/kbd&gt; - will select the (outer) tag and place cursor on the end
 - once you&#39;ve got your selection you can toggle between the top and bottom with &lt;kbd&gt;o&lt;/kbd&gt; (*update based on Michael Gruber&#39;s note*)
 - &lt;kbd&gt;c&lt;/kbd&gt; - change or, &lt;kbd&gt;y&lt;/kbd&gt; - copy or, escape for leaving visual mode ... 

Another useful operation is: &lt;kbd&gt;v&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;i&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;t&lt;/kbd&gt; - will select content of the tag (inner). 

**Update (thanks to @elrado)** Example: &lt;kbd&gt;v&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;i&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;t&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;o&lt;/kbd&gt; will enable you to select inner content of the tag and position cursor on the beginning of the selected text.

Reference: https://superuser.com/questions/182355/how-can-i-select-an-html-tags-content-in-vim

Vim reference (thanks to @Geek for noting this out):

    :help visual-operators

you&#39;ll get:

    4. Operating on the Visual area				*visual-operators*
    
    The objects that can be used are:
    	...
    	at	a &lt;tag&gt; &lt;/tag&gt; block (with tags)		|v_at|
    	it	inner &lt;tag&gt; &lt;/tag&gt; block			|v_it|
        ...
   

There is a vim plugin called matchit.vim . You can find it here: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=39 . It was created pretty much the exact purpose you describe.

Install that, place your cursor on the body of the tag (not the &lt;&gt;, else it&#39;ll match those) and press % to jump to the other tag. See the script&#39;s page to find out what else it matches.

The OP stated that what he really wanted to do is copy a section of XML without having to find the matching tag.  This is easily done in normal mode with `yat&lt;motion&gt;p`, which yanks the text inside and including the matching tags, then pastes it.  `yit&lt;motion&gt;p` is almost the same, but it doesn&#39;t include the outer tags.

The &#39;y&#39; in the string is of course the normal mode &quot;yank&quot; command.  (`:help y`)

`a` or `i` can be used for object selection after an operator such as `y` or inside a visual selection.  The symbol after `a` or `i` specifies what should be selected.  The object type `t` used here indicates an SGML tag.  (`:help object-select`).

Of course `&lt;motion&gt;` just means to move somewhere by the means of your choice and `p` puts the yanked text at that location.


Just my trick of using &quot;yank&quot;, &quot;object-select&quot; (tag select) and &quot;jump to last yanked text&quot;.

    yit`] 

to jump to right before closing tag

and

    yit

to jump to right after opening tag

Note: this will change the content of default register

What is an [AppDomain][1]? What are the benefits of AppDomains or why 
Microsoft brought the concept of AppDomains, what was the problem without AppDomains?

Please elaborate.

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_Domain


What is AppDomain?

I&#39;m aware that in Vim I can often repeat a command by simply adding a number in front of it. For example, one can delete 5 lines by:

    5dd

It&#39;s also often possible to specify a range of lines to apply a command to, for example

    :10,20s:hello:goodbye:gc

How can I perform a &#39;vertical edit&#39;? I&#39;d like to, for example, insert a particular symbol, say a comma, at the beggining (skipping whitespace, i.e. what you&#39;d get if you type a comma after Shift-I in command mode) of every line in a given range. How can this be achieved (without resorting to down-period-down-period-down-period)?


How do I repeat an edit on multiple lines in Vim?

Vim `%` operator jumps to matching parentheses, comment ends and a few other things.  It doesn&#39;t, however, match XML tags (or any other tag, to the best of my knowledge).

What&#39;s the best way to jump to the matching XML tag using Vim?

**Note:**  What I *really* want to do is duplicate a section in an XML file without manually looking for the matching tag.

Jump to matching XML tags in Vim

Vim <code>%</code> operator jumps to matching parentheses, comment ends and a few other things. It doesn't, however, match XML tags (or any other tag, to the best of my knowledge).
What's the best way to jump to the matching XML tag using Vim?
Note: What I really want to do is duplicate a section in an XML file without manually looking for the matching tag.

How can space and tab be represented in an XML tag?

Are there any special characters that can represent them?

Represent space and tab in XML tag?

Its a .vbproj and looks like this

    &lt;Project DefaultTargets=&quot;Build&quot; xmlns=&quot;http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003&quot;&gt;
        &lt;PropertyGroup&gt;
            &lt;ProjectGuid&gt;15a7ee82-9020-4fda-a7fb-85a61664692d&lt;/ProjectGuid&gt;

all i want to get is the ProjectGuid but it does not work when a namespace is there...

     Dim xmlDoc As New XmlDocument()
     Dim filePath As String = Path.Combine(mDirectory, name + &quot;\&quot; + name + &quot;.vbproj&quot;)
     xmlDoc.Load(filePath)
     Dim value As Object = xmlDoc.SelectNodes(&quot;/Project/PropertyGroup/ProjectGuid&quot;)

what can i do to fix this?


XPath select node with namespace

I have encountered many half-solutions to the task of returning XML in ASP.NET. I don&#39;t want to blindly copy &amp; paste some code that happens to work most of the time, though; I want the *right* code, and I want to know *why* it&#39;s right. I want criticism; I want information; I want knowledge; I want understanding.

Below are code fragments, in order of increasing complexity, representing some of the partial solutions I&#39;ve seen, including some of the further questions each one causes, and which I&#39;d like to have answered here.

A thorough answer must address why we *must* have or *must not* have any of the following things, or else explain why it&#39;s irrelevant.

 - Response.Clear();
 - Response.ContentType = &quot;text/xml&quot;;
 - Response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
 - Response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF16;
 - Response.ContentType = &quot;text/xml; charset=utf-8&quot;;
 - Response.ContentType = &quot;text/xml; charset=utf-16&quot;;
 - Response.End()
 - Using an aspx with the front-file guts ripped out
 - Using an ashx file

In the end, imagine you need to write the contents of a helper function like this:

&lt;!-- language: lang-c# --&gt;

    ///&lt;summary&gt;Use this call inside your (Page_Xxx) method to write the
    ///xml to the web client. &lt;/summary&gt;
    ///&lt;remarks&gt;See for https://stackoverflow.com/questions/543319/how-to-return-xml-in-asp-net
    ///for proper usage.&lt;/remarks&gt;
    public static void ReturnXmlDocumentToWebClient(
        XmlDocument document,
        Page page)
    {
       ...
    }

----------

Every solution I see starts with taking an empty aspx page, and trimming all the HTML out of the front file (which causes warnings in Visual Studio):

    &lt;%@ Page Language=&quot;C#&quot;
          AutoEventWireup=&quot;true&quot;
          CodeFile=&quot;GetTheXml.aspx.cs&quot;
          Inherits=&quot;GetTheXml&quot; %&gt;

Next we use the `Page_Load` event to write to the output:

&lt;!-- language: lang-c# --&gt;

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
       String xml = &quot;&lt;foo&gt;Hello, world!&lt;/foo&gt;&quot;;

       Response.Write(xml);
    }

----------

Do we need to change the **ContentType** to **&quot;text/xml&quot;**? I.e.:

&lt;!-- language: lang-c# --&gt;

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
       String xml = &quot;&lt;foo&gt;Hello, world!&lt;/foo&gt;&quot;;

       Response.ContentType = &quot;text/xml&quot;;
       Response.Write(xml);
    }

----------

Do we need to call `Response.Clear` first?

&lt;!-- language: lang-c# --&gt;

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
       String xml = &quot;&lt;foo&gt;Hello, world!&lt;/foo&gt;&quot;;

       Response.Clear();
       Response.ContentType = &quot;text/xml&quot;;
       Response.Write(xml);
    }

Do we really need to call that? Doesn&#39;t `Response.Clear` make the prior step of making sure that the code in the front file was empty (not even a space or a carriage return) outside of the `&lt;% ... %&gt;` unnecessary?

Does `Response.Clear` make it more robust, in case someone left a blank line or space in the code-front file?

Is using ashx the same as a blank aspx main file, because it&#39;s understood that it&#39;s not going to output HTML?

----------

Do we need to call `Response.End`? I.e.:

&lt;!-- language: lang-c# --&gt;

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
       String xml = &quot;&lt;foo&gt;Hello, world!&lt;/foo&gt;&quot;;

       Response.Clear();
       Response.ContentType = &quot;text/xml&quot;;
       Response.Write(xml);
       Response.End();
    }

What else could possibly happen after `Response.Write` that needs us to end the response **right now**?

----------

Is the content-type of `text/xml` sufficient, or should it instead be **text/xml; charset=utf-8**?

&lt;!-- language: lang-c# --&gt;

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
       String xml = &quot;&lt;foo&gt;Hello, world!&lt;/foo&gt;&quot;;

       Response.Clear();
       Response.ContentType = &quot;text/xml; charset=utf-8&quot;;
       Response.Write(xml);
       Response.End();
    }

Or should it specifically **not** be that? Does having a charset in the content type, but not setting the property, screw up the server?

Why not some other content type, e.g.:

 - UTF-8
 - utf-16
 - UTF-16

----------

Should the charset be specified in `Response.ContentEncoding`?

&lt;!-- language: lang-c# --&gt;

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
       String xml = &quot;&lt;foo&gt;Hello, world!&lt;/foo&gt;&quot;;

       Response.Clear();
       Response.ContentType = &quot;text/xml&quot;;
       Response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
       Response.Write(xml);
       Response.End();
    }

Is using `Response.ContentEncoding` better than jamming it into `Response.ContentType`? Is it worse? Is the former supported? Is the latter?

----------

I don&#39;t actually want to write a String out; I want to write out an `XmlDocument`. [Someone suggests I can use the `XmlWriter`][1]:

&lt;!-- language: lang-c# --&gt;

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
       XmlDocument xml = GetXmlDocumentToShowTheUser();

       Response.Clear();
       Response.ContentType = &quot;text/xml&quot;;
       Response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;

       using (TextWriter textWriter = new StreamWriter(
             Response.OutputStream,
             Encoding.UTF8))
       {
           XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(textWriter);
           // Write XML using xmlWriter
           //TODO: How to do this?
       }
    }

Note the use of `Response.OutputStream`, rather than `Response.Write`. Is this good? Bad? Better? Worse? Faster? Slower? More memory intensive? Less memory intensive?

----------

I [read][6] that you should render

&gt; the XML in the page’s Render() method
&gt; to avoid problems with chunking
&gt; encountered when using Page_Load().

What is **chunking**?
What are the problems with chunking, and how does using using `Page_Render` eliminate them?

----------

I don&#39;t want to write the contents of my `XmlDocument` object into a string and then write that because that wastes memory. That is, any of these would be bad:

&lt;!-- language: lang-c# --&gt;

    Response.Write(doc.ToString());
    Response.Write(doc.InnerXml);
    xmlWrite.WriteString(doc.ToString());
    xmlWrite.WriteString(doc.InnerXml);

----------

**Similar Questions**

[How to return XML in ASP.NET][1]

**References**

[How Return XML From ASPX in ASP.NET 1.1][2]

[Writing XML output to an ASP.NET webpage][3]

[How do you output XML from ASP.NET?][4]

[Creating an ASHX handler in ASP.NET][5]

  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/374535/how-to-return-xml-in-aspnet
  [2]: http://www.deez.info/sengelha/2006/02/06/how-return-xml-from-aspx-in-aspnet-11
  [3]: http://forums.asp.net/t/1298093.aspx
  [4]: http://bytes.com/groups/net-asp/647876-how-do-you-output-xml-asp-net
  [5]: http://www.aspcode.net/Creating-an-ASHX-handler-in-ASPNET.aspx
  [6]: http://www.deez.info/sengelha/2006/02/06/how-return-xml-from-aspx-in-aspnet-11/#comment-24670


How to return XML in ASP.NET?

I have the following code: 

    DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(xmlFile);

How can I get it to parse XML contained within a String instead of a file?

In Java, how do I parse XML as a String instead of a file?

I have an `XDocument` object. I want to query for elements with a particular name at any depth using LINQ.

When I use `Descendants(&quot;element_name&quot;)`, I only get elements that are direct children of the current level. I&#39;m looking for the equivalent of &quot;//element_name&quot; in XPath...should I just use `XPath`, or is there a way to do it using LINQ methods?


Query an XDocument for elements by name at any depth

I waste a lot of time between Vim and Python. I find it too slow to manually copy-paste from Python to Vim and vice versa. A good broken example is:

&gt; %!python for i in xrange(25); print 6*i \n     

How can you do such tweaks direcly in Vim?   **[Solved]**


**[Clarification]**  I need things to Vim, like printing sequences, arithmetics... - things I cannot do in Vim.

**[?]** Can someone elaborate this point:
&quot;your script can read from stdin to operate directly on the lines given *(., %, ...).*&quot; 

**[Further Clarification]**

If I want to print &#39;Hello&#39; to lines 4,5, 6 and 7, what is wrong:

&gt; :4-7!python -c &quot;print &#39;hello&#39;&quot;

The dot . modifies the current line. Can I print on multiple lines 7, 32 and 99:

&gt; :7,32,99!python -c &quot;print &#39;hello&#39;&quot;

Clearly not working. How?

How can you use Python in Vim?

I know the regex for doing a global replace,
 
         %s/old/new/g

How do you go about doing an interactive search-replace in [Vim][1]?

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_%28text_editor%29


Interactive search/replace regex in Vim?

In Vim, what is the command to correct the indentation of all the lines?

Often times I&#39;ll copy and paste code into a remote terminal and have the whole thing messed up.  I want to fix this in one fell swoop.

How do I fix the indentation of an entire file in Vi?

I would like to list the matches, when I hit:

    /example
so that I see where all matches are at once.

How can you list the matches of Vim&#39;s search?

If I have 10 tabs opened, I have to close each one using &quot;:q&quot; separately. 

How can I close them all at once?

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