Turning on XML syntax highlighting in vim for a non-XML file

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I'm using vim to browse through some log files (the file extension is .log) which contain a lot of XML.

How can I turn on XML syntax highlighting after opening the file? Of course, I don't actually want to associate XML syntax highlighting with all log files.

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The command you want is ":setfiletype". For example:

:setf xml

See ":help :setfiletype".

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