On her Linux workstations, she would have typed a quick one-liner: xmllint --valid --noout config.xml . But tonight, she was on her Windows laptop, connected via a sluggish VPN. No xmllint . No grep that respected XML structure. Just PowerShell and a growing sense of dread.
She ran:
She reran the pipeline. Green.
.\xmllint --valid .\config.xml 2>&1 | Select-String "error" The output hit like a puzzle piece clicking into place: xmllint for windows