[TxMt] Converting dense XML to easy-to-read form?
Eric O'Brien
ericob at possibilityengine.com
Fri Dec 28 04:46:46 UTC 2007
I am not *writing* XML files, but I often want to understand one --
either just for education or because I need to modify it.
Often the file in question was automatically generated and "ease of
reading by humans" was not part of the process.
Right now, I trying to pull apart a XML file where a single element
contains about 90 attributes. Thankfully, they *do* seem to be
ordered alphabetically, but they are all run together in a single
line. That is, there are no linefeeds between attributes. Which
would be just what I'd like (for readability anyway -- I'm hoping
that "white space is white space and it won't matter whether those
white-spaces are space characters or line feeds).
For this file, using Find and Replace seems to work. (Find
<doublequote><space> replace with <doublequote><newline>). I don't
know enough about XML to know if it always going to be as easy as that.
The XML bundle item "Tidy" actually runs xmllint, but I don't see a
way to make that do what I want.
Searching Google on "XML pretty print" I came up with a number of
hits, but many bits of code were from the year 2000 or so.
Does anyone know of any... contemporary solutions? Or have other
suggestions/ideas?
Thanks!
eo
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