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Creating a Simple XML Editor in Your Terminal with Python and Textual

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Mike Driscoll
Jul 30, 2025
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Several years ago, I created an XML editor with the wxPython GUI toolkit called Boomslang. I recently thought it would be fun to port that code to Textual so I could have an XML viewer and editor in my terminal as well.

In this article, you will learn how that experiment went and see the results. Here is a quick outline of what you will cover:

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