one line big XML to multiline

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

Hi all,

I got a big one line XML file.
I want to break the lines to make it more readable.

Replacing "><" with "C-j" then indenting is the most obvious solution,
but would you know a more elegant solution?

I'm using Emacs 23 (FC17) with nXml or sgml-mode usable.

Thank you.

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[Tassilo Horn]

Mihamina Rakotomandimby <miha...@rktmb.org> writes:

Hi,

> I got a big one line XML file.
> I want to break the lines to make it more readable.
>
> Replacing "><" with "C-j" then indenting is the most obvious solution,
> but would you know a more elegant solution?

I'd go with some external tool such as xmllint which comes with libxml.

$ xmllint --format --output formatted.xml original.xml

should do what you want.

Bye,
Tassilo

[John Bokma]

I've used this in the past, with success:

http://blog.bookworm.at/2007/03/pretty-print-xml-with-emacs.html

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[Xah Lee]

you can record a keyboard macro, save it, assign it a key. So, just
press one key, and the file is indented and well-formatted.

〈Emacs: Using Keyboard Macro to Record/Playback Keystrokes〉
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_macro_example.html

to indent, just select all then 【Ctrl+Alt+\】.

or, this can be easily done by writing a elisp command.

Xah

[Matt McClure]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Tassilo Horn <tas...@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> I'd go with some external tool such as xmllint which comes with libxml.
>
> $ xmllint --format --output formatted.xml original.xml
>
> should do what you want.

I prefer `xmlstarlet`[1]. To format a buffer:

C-x h C-u M-| xml fo RET

[1]: http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/docs.php

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