Formatting XML documents using Vi and Xmllint

Submitted by Jochus on Thu, 07/02/2013 - 14:48 | Posted in: Mac
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If you want to format the following XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ROOT><FOO><BAR>Hello World</BAR></FOO><BAR><FOO>World Hello</FOO></BAR></ROOT>

... you can use Vi in combination with Xmllint to do the formatting

$ vi example.xml
:%!xmllint --format -

... the result will be:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ROOT>
  <FOO>
    <BAR>Hello World</BAR>
  </FOO>
  <BAR>
    <FOO>World Hello</FOO>
  </BAR>
</ROOT>

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