Best way to paste an action's XML into editor without pasting the action itself?

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Howdy folks, I've been dabbling lately in XML, and it's use in KM, and have what is very likely a rookie question. How do yall recommend pasting an action's XML into the Editor without it just pasting the action itself?

Lately I was building a macro that involved building an action's XML properties using a variety of variables, and then inserting that action into the open macro. To do this I was compiling the XML itself in BBEdit, but every time I went to paste that into a clipboard action in KM, it would paste the action itself instead of the XML text. I ended up having to paste it in pieces, which could of course lead to user error and it not working properly.

So how do I paste an action's XML into a text field in KM without it pasting the action itself? Any help is appreciated, and thank you in advance!

-Chris

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I usually add a character to the start of the string before I paste it in, then delete the character afterwords.

Don't forget to set the action to not process tokens.