XML Pretty Print

[Mike Margerum]

I used to be able to reformat / prettyify XML from BBEdit, but somewhere along the way this was removed.  It's probably one of the top things I need from the editor as I deal with a lot of XML.

Is it back yet?  If so, how do you access it?  I see a format in the markup menu, but it looks like its only for HTML?

Thanks

[Patrick Woolsey]

Not yet, but please drop a note to tech support
<sup...@barebones.com> and we may be able to help you with an
interrim solution.

Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
==
Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/>

[Dave]

You should have a program called xmllint in your /usr/bin/ directory that can parse and reformat an xml file, stream or URL. Since it can process standard input and output to standard out, it can be used in a text filter. See the user manual and http://bbeditextras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Text_Filters for more information on how to create and use text filters. See man xmllint or xmllint --help for more about xmllint.

[Jim Danner]

As Dave says, xmllint is a useful utility for this. My script Tidy up XML.sh looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Tidy up an XML file

XMLLINT_INDENT=$'\t' xmllint --format - | \
sed -E 's/^([[:blank:]]*)(<[^<>]+>)(.*)(<[^<>]+>)$/\1\2\
\1'$'\t''\3\
\1\4/'

I added the sed command to insert some more line breaks in the XML for clarity, but you can choose to do without (by removing everything starting from the | pipe).

[Iris Panabaker]

I like to use https://jsonformatter.org/xml-pretty-print for xml pretty print and xml formatter

[F. Alfredo Rego]

Is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle Soft Wrapping? 

Being lazy, I would like to avoid having to do a couple of pointing and clicking kinds of maneuver/manoeuvre/manœuvre/Manöver/maniobra/manovra using this:

Thanks to our distinguished intercontinental and multilingual community for any guidance. Sorry if I failed to include YOUR language, but I’m sure you’ll get the point (so to speak ;-)

Alfredo

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[Fletcher Sandbeck]

You can assign one. Open Preferences and select Menus & Shortcuts. Find "Status Bar" in the list and you'll find "Soft Wrap Text" within the "Text Options" and can assign a shortcut there.

[fletcher]

On Aug 11, 2017, at 8:44 AM, F. Alfredo Rego <F.Alfr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle Soft Wrapping? 

Being lazy, I would like to avoid having to do a couple of pointing and clicking kinds of maneuver/manoeuvre/manœuvre/Manöver/maniobra/manovra using this:

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[Neil Faiman]

On Aug 11, 2017, at 11:44 AM, F. Alfredo Rego <F.Alfr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle Soft Wrapping?
>
> Being lazy, I would like to avoid having to do a couple of pointing and clicking kinds of maneuver/manoeuvre/manœuvre/Manöver/maniobra/manovra using this:

BBEdit > Preferences, Menus & Shortcuts, choose View in the left pane, Text Display > Soft Wrap Text in the right pane, and set the keyboard shortcut of your choice. ( Or Status Bar in the left pane, Text Options > Soft Wrap Text in the right pane.)

Regards,

Neil Faiman

[F. Alfredo Rego]

Thanks, Neil and Fletcher. This worked perfectly.

I certainly need to dive into BBEdit’s wonderful preferences in more detail.

I appreciate your guidance.

Alfredo

> On Aug 11, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Neil Faiman <neil....@faiman.org> wrote:
>
> BBEdit > Preferences, Menus & Shortcuts, choose View in the left pane, Text Display > Soft Wrap Text in the right pane, and set the keyboard shortcut of your choice. ( Or Status Bar in the left pane, Text Options > Soft Wrap Text in the right pane.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Neil Faiman