Free XML Formatting tool

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Is there a free XML formatting  indent  tool available where I can past an XML string and have it formatted so I can read the XML document correctly   Thanks  Edit   I am using XML Notepad on Windows XP

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Try http   prettydiff com   The algorithm is similar to HTML Tidy  but is more complete   The program is written entirely in JavaScript  so you don t have to install anything

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You can open the XML file in any Visual Studio Express product and the press Ctrl A  Ctrl K  Ctrl F to get it nicely formatted   Hey  it s free and it s a tool  so it fits the question   -

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I believe that Notepad   has this feature   Edit  for newer versions  Install the  XML Tools  plugin  Menu Plugins  Plugin Manager  Then run  Menu Plugins  Xml Tools  Pretty Print  XML only - with line breaks   Original answer  for older versions of Notepad       Notepad   menu  TextFX -  HTML Tidy -  Tidy  Reindent XML  This feature however wraps XMLs and that makes it look  unclean   To have no wrap     open C  Program Files Notepad   plugins Config tidy TIDYCFG INI   find the entry  Tidy  Reindent XML  and add wrap 0 so that it looks like this       Tidy  Reindent XML   input-xml  yes  indent yes  wrap 0

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I believe that Notepad   has this feature   Edit  for newer versions  Install the  XML Tools  plugin  Menu Plugins  Plugin Manager  Then run  Menu Plugins  Xml Tools  Pretty Print  XML only - with line breaks   Original answer  for older versions of Notepad       Notepad   menu  TextFX -  HTML Tidy -  Tidy  Reindent XML  This feature however wraps XMLs and that makes it look  unclean   To have no wrap     open C  Program Files Notepad   plugins Config tidy TIDYCFG INI   find the entry  Tidy  Reindent XML  and add wrap 0 so that it looks like this       Tidy  Reindent XML   input-xml  yes  indent yes  wrap 0

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You could also try http   xmltoolbox appspot com  it is an online xml formatter  You just paste your xml into a large text area field and press  format xml  then it pretty prints the xml in the text area so its easy to read or copy   There is also a nice little filter feature that allows you to see all of a certain element   Hope you will enjoy the tool

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I believe that Notepad   has this feature   Edit  for newer versions  Install the  XML Tools  plugin  Menu Plugins  Plugin Manager  Then run  Menu Plugins  Xml Tools  Pretty Print  XML only - with line breaks   Original answer  for older versions of Notepad       Notepad   menu  TextFX -  HTML Tidy -  Tidy  Reindent XML  This feature however wraps XMLs and that makes it look  unclean   To have no wrap     open C  Program Files Notepad   plugins Config tidy TIDYCFG INI   find the entry  Tidy  Reindent XML  and add wrap 0 so that it looks like this       Tidy  Reindent XML   input-xml  yes  indent yes  wrap 0

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You can open the XML file in any Visual Studio Express product and the press Ctrl A  Ctrl K  Ctrl F to get it nicely formatted   Hey  it s free and it s a tool  so it fits the question   -

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Use the following      xmllint --format

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If you use Notepad    I would suggest installing the XML Tools plugin  You can beautify any XML content  indentation and line breaks  or linarize it  Also you can  auto- validate your file and apply XSL transformation to it   Download the latest zip and copy the extracted DLL to the plugins directory of your Notepad   installation  Also  download the External libs and copy them to your  SystemRoot  system32  directory

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You can open the XML file in any Visual Studio Express product and the press Ctrl A  Ctrl K  Ctrl F to get it nicely formatted   Hey  it s free and it s a tool  so it fits the question   -

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Not directly an answer  but good to know nevertheless  After indenting  please make sure that the parser s  and application s  which will subsequently process the formatted XML will not yield different results  White space is often significant in XML and most conforming parsers bubble it up to the application

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Notepad   dit it well only if you re in ANSI  If you do it in something like  ANSI AS UTF8   tidy dirty the doc

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If you use Notepad    I would suggest installing the XML Tools plugin  You can beautify any XML content  indentation and line breaks  or linarize it  Also you can  auto- validate your file and apply XSL transformation to it   Download the latest zip and copy the extracted DLL to the plugins directory of your Notepad   installation  Also  download the External libs and copy them to your  SystemRoot  system32  directory

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Use the following      xmllint --format

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Not directly an answer  but good to know nevertheless  After indenting  please make sure that the parser s  and application s  which will subsequently process the formatted XML will not yield different results  White space is often significant in XML and most conforming parsers bubble it up to the application

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Use the following      xmllint --format

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Firstobject s free XML editor for Windows is called foxe is a great tool     Open or paste your XML into it and press F8 to indent  you may need to set the number of indent spaces as it may default to 0    It looks simple  however it contains a custom written XML parser written in C   that allows it to work efficiently with very large XML files easily  unlike some expensive  espionage  related tools I ve used    From the product page      The full Visual C   source code for this firstobject XML editor    including the CDataEdit gigabyte edit control MFC component  is   available as part of the Advanced CMarkup Developer License  It allows   developers to implement custom XML handling functions such as   validation  transformation  beautify  and reporting for their own   purposes

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Not directly an answer  but good to know nevertheless  After indenting  please make sure that the parser s  and application s  which will subsequently process the formatted XML will not yield different results  White space is often significant in XML and most conforming parsers bubble it up to the application

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If you are a programmer  many XML parsing programming libraries will let you parse XML  then output it - and generating pretty printed  indented output is an output option

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You could also try http   xmltoolbox appspot com  it is an online xml formatter  You just paste your xml into a large text area field and press  format xml  then it pretty prints the xml in the text area so its easy to read or copy   There is also a nice little filter feature that allows you to see all of a certain element   Hope you will enjoy the tool

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Not directly an answer  but good to know nevertheless  After indenting  please make sure that the parser s  and application s  which will subsequently process the formatted XML will not yield different results  White space is often significant in XML and most conforming parsers bubble it up to the application

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Firstobject s free XML editor for Windows is called foxe is a great tool     Open or paste your XML into it and press F8 to indent  you may need to set the number of indent spaces as it may default to 0    It looks simple  however it contains a custom written XML parser written in C   that allows it to work efficiently with very large XML files easily  unlike some expensive  espionage  related tools I ve used    From the product page      The full Visual C   source code for this firstobject XML editor    including the CDataEdit gigabyte edit control MFC component  is   available as part of the Advanced CMarkup Developer License  It allows   developers to implement custom XML handling functions such as   validation  transformation  beautify  and reporting for their own   purposes

User · Answer

If you are a programmer  many XML parsing programming libraries will let you parse XML  then output it - and generating pretty printed  indented output is an output option

User · Answer

You can open the XML file in any Visual Studio Express product and the press Ctrl A  Ctrl K  Ctrl F to get it nicely formatted   Hey  it s free and it s a tool  so it fits the question   -

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Advanced Conventional Formatting  Update   XMLSpectrum is an open source syntax-highlighter  Supporting XML - but with special features for XSLT 2 0  XSD 1 1 and XPath 2 0  I m mentioning this here because it also has special formatting capabilities for XML  it vertically aligns attributes and their contents as well as elements - to enhance XML readability   The output HTML is suitable for reviewing in a browser or if the XML needs further editing it can be copied and pasted into an XML editor of your choice  Because xmlspectrum xsl uses its own XML text parser  all content such as entity references and CDATA sections are preserved - as in an editor     Note on usage  this is just an XSLT 2 0 stylesheet so you would need to enclose the required command-line  samples provided  in a small script so you could automatically transform the XML source    Virtual Formatting  XMLQuire is a free XML editor that has special formatting capabilities - it formats XML properly  including multi-line attributes  attribute-values  word-wrap indentation and even XML comments   All XML indentation is done without inserting tabs or spaces  ensuring the integrity of the XML is maintained  For versions of Windows later than XP  no installation is needed  its just a 3MB  exe file   If you need to print out the formatted XML there are special options within the print-preview   such as line-numbering that follows the indentation  If you need to copy the formatted XML to a word processor as rich text  that s available too    Disclosure  I maintain both XMLQuire and XMLSpectrum as  home projects

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If you use Notepad    I would suggest installing the XML Tools plugin  You can beautify any XML content  indentation and line breaks  or linarize it  Also you can  auto- validate your file and apply XSL transformation to it   Download the latest zip and copy the extracted DLL to the plugins directory of your Notepad   installation  Also  download the External libs and copy them to your  SystemRoot  system32  directory

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Advanced Conventional Formatting  Update   XMLSpectrum is an open source syntax-highlighter  Supporting XML - but with special features for XSLT 2 0  XSD 1 1 and XPath 2 0  I m mentioning this here because it also has special formatting capabilities for XML  it vertically aligns attributes and their contents as well as elements - to enhance XML readability   The output HTML is suitable for reviewing in a browser or if the XML needs further editing it can be copied and pasted into an XML editor of your choice  Because xmlspectrum xsl uses its own XML text parser  all content such as entity references and CDATA sections are preserved - as in an editor     Note on usage  this is just an XSLT 2 0 stylesheet so you would need to enclose the required command-line  samples provided  in a small script so you could automatically transform the XML source    Virtual Formatting  XMLQuire is a free XML editor that has special formatting capabilities - it formats XML properly  including multi-line attributes  attribute-values  word-wrap indentation and even XML comments   All XML indentation is done without inserting tabs or spaces  ensuring the integrity of the XML is maintained  For versions of Windows later than XP  no installation is needed  its just a 3MB  exe file   If you need to print out the formatted XML there are special options within the print-preview   such as line-numbering that follows the indentation  If you need to copy the formatted XML to a word processor as rich text  that s available too    Disclosure  I maintain both XMLQuire and XMLSpectrum as  home projects

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Firstobject s free XML editor for Windows is called foxe is a great tool     Open or paste your XML into it and press F8 to indent  you may need to set the number of indent spaces as it may default to 0    It looks simple  however it contains a custom written XML parser written in C   that allows it to work efficiently with very large XML files easily  unlike some expensive  espionage  related tools I ve used    From the product page      The full Visual C   source code for this firstobject XML editor    including the CDataEdit gigabyte edit control MFC component  is   available as part of the Advanced CMarkup Developer License  It allows   developers to implement custom XML handling functions such as   validation  transformation  beautify  and reporting for their own   purposes

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Use the following      xmllint --format

User · Answer

Try http   prettydiff com   The algorithm is similar to HTML Tidy  but is more complete   The program is written entirely in JavaScript  so you don t have to install anything

User · Answer

If you use Notepad    I would suggest installing the XML Tools plugin  You can beautify any XML content  indentation and line breaks  or linarize it  Also you can  auto- validate your file and apply XSL transformation to it   Download the latest zip and copy the extracted DLL to the plugins directory of your Notepad   installation  Also  download the External libs and copy them to your  SystemRoot  system32  directory

User · Answer

Firstobject s free XML editor for Windows is called foxe is a great tool     Open or paste your XML into it and press F8 to indent  you may need to set the number of indent spaces as it may default to 0    It looks simple  however it contains a custom written XML parser written in C   that allows it to work efficiently with very large XML files easily  unlike some expensive  espionage  related tools I ve used    From the product page      The full Visual C   source code for this firstobject XML editor    including the CDataEdit gigabyte edit control MFC component  is   available as part of the Advanced CMarkup Developer License  It allows   developers to implement custom XML handling functions such as   validation  transformation  beautify  and reporting for their own   purposes

User · Answer

If you are a programmer  many XML parsing programming libraries will let you parse XML  then output it - and generating pretty printed  indented output is an output option

User · Answer

Another method to reindent XML in Notepad     From menu select Plugins -  XML Tools -  Pretty print  XML only     with line breaks  or press Ctrl Alt Shift B

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I believe that Notepad   has this feature   Edit  for newer versions  Install the  XML Tools  plugin  Menu Plugins  Plugin Manager  Then run  Menu Plugins  Xml Tools  Pretty Print  XML only - with line breaks   Original answer  for older versions of Notepad       Notepad   menu  TextFX -  HTML Tidy -  Tidy  Reindent XML  This feature however wraps XMLs and that makes it look  unclean   To have no wrap     open C  Program Files Notepad   plugins Config tidy TIDYCFG INI   find the entry  Tidy  Reindent XML  and add wrap 0 so that it looks like this       Tidy  Reindent XML   input-xml  yes  indent yes  wrap 0

User · Answer

If you are a programmer  many XML parsing programming libraries will let you parse XML  then output it - and generating pretty printed  indented output is an output option

User · Answer

Notepad   dit it well only if you re in ANSI  If you do it in something like  ANSI AS UTF8   tidy dirty the doc

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Another method to reindent XML in Notepad     From menu select Plugins -  XML Tools -  Pretty print  XML only     with line breaks  or press Ctrl Alt Shift B

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