XML document authoring with emacs nxml-mode

In order to use the nxml package under emacs, you must add these lines to your .emacs file, so that emacs knows where to find the nxml package:

;; /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tcc-nxml-emacs:  Add these lines
;;      to your .emacs to use nxml-mode.  For documentation of
;;      this mode, see http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/nxml/
;;--
;; Add the nxml files to emacs's search path for loading:
;;--
(setq load-path
      (append load-path
              '("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/nxml/")))
;;--
;; Make sure nxml-mode can autoload
;;--
(load "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/nxml/rng-auto.el")

;;--
;; Load nxml-mode for files ending in .xml, .xsl, .rng, .xhtml
;;--
(setq auto-mode-alist
      (cons '("\\.\\(xml\\|xsl\\|rng\\|xhtml\\)\\'" . nxml-mode)
            auto-mode-alist))

If adding these lines breaks emacs for other uses, you can set up a separate customization file just for nxml-mode.

For example, you can make a copy of your .emacs file named nxml.emacs and add the customizations shown above. Then to run emacs with nxml, use this command:

emacs -q --load ~/nxml.emacs

The -q option prevents emacs from reading your .emacs file, and the --load ~/nxml.emacs option causes it to read your customized setup file instead.