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Emacs has a nice xml editing mode called nXML.
I often define keyboard macros as I edit, some of these I record as functions which you can put in your .emacs, since they come in handy time and again, eg. this one for bidix:
(defun nxml-dix-restriction-copy (&optional RL)
"Make a copy of the Apertium element we're looking at, and add
an LR restriction to the copy. A prefix argument makes it an RL
restriction."
(interactive "P")
(nxml-token-after)
(let ((tok (xmltok-start-tag-qname)))
(while (not (equal tok "e"))
(nxml-backward-up-element)
(nxml-token-after)
(setq tok (xmltok-start-tag-qname))))
(if (looking-at "[e>]")
(nxml-backward-up-element))
(kill-sexp) (yank) (newline-and-indent) (yank)
(goto-char (mark t))
(let ((dir (if RL "RL" "LR")))
(forward-word) (insert (concat " r=\"" dir "\"")))
(forward-char) (just-one-space) (delete-backward-char 1))
;; whatever keys you prefer:
(define-key nxml-mode-map (kbd "C-c L") 'nxml-dix-restriction-copy)
(define-key nxml-mode-map (kbd "C-c R")
(lambda nil (interactive)
"Make a copy of the Apertium element we're looking at, and
add an RL restriction to the copy."
(nxml-dix-restriction-copy 'RL)))
Also, if you like having all <i> elements aligned at eg. column 25, the following in your .emacs lets you do M-x align on a region to achieve that, and also aligns
to 10 and <r> to 44 (for bidix):
(add-hook 'align-load-hook (lambda () (add-to-list 'align-rules-list '(nxml-dix-i-align (regexp . "\\(\\s-*\\)\\(<i.*\\)$") (modes . '(nxml-mode)) (column . 25))) (add-to-list 'align-rules-list '(nxml-dix-r-align (regexp . "\\(\\s-*\\)\\(<r>.*\\)$") (tab-stop . nil) (modes . '(nxml-mode)) (column . 44))) (add-to-list 'align-rules-list '(nxml-dix-p-align (regexp . "\\(\\s-*\\)\\(<p>.*\\)$") (modes . '(nxml-mode)) (column . 10)))))