It being on the server precludes opening an IDE? That said, I agree that it would be better if it isn't a thousand lines, and maybe there are better options th

It being on the server precludes opening an IDE? That said, I agree that it would be better if it isn't a thousand lines, and maybe there are better options than XML. The company I work for is a Microsoft shop (for now, switching to Java sadly), and I've edited a lot of web.configs in servers, sometimes using Notepad, and it wasn't much of a hassle (though I did have to research what to edit beforehand in some cases).