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xmlindent - Format XML files

At Atlassian about 90% of my work is with Maven - so I’m editing a lot of XML every day. One invaluable tool I’d like to share is xmlindent.

Reformatting poorly formatted XML is as easy as
$ xmlindent -w crappy_formatted.xml

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 5:02 pm and is filed under Atlassian, Build and Release Engineering. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

sime Says: June 11th, 2008 at 8:22 pm

Is this the same as :

xmllint –format –recover

Steve Smith Says: June 11th, 2008 at 8:33 pm

For Emacs users nXML-mode is the way to go:

http://www.thaiopensource.com/nxml-mode/

Written by James Clark, who knows a thing or two about XML.