justyourdevXML Formatter
Pretty-print XML with clean, nested indentation.
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How to use the XML formatter
Three steps, all in your browser.
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Paste your input
Type or paste your code or data. Press Sample to try an example.
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Pick the style
Choose indentation or options. The result updates as you type.
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Copy the result
Copy the output in one click. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
XML Formatter: what to know
The XML formatter parses your document and writes it back out with each element on its own line, indented by depth. It's the quickest way to read a SOAP response, an RSS or Atom feed, a sitemap, an SVG file or a Maven pom.xml that arrived as one long line.
Malformed XML is reported instead of guessed at. XML is strict: every element must be closed or self-closing (<br/>), tags must nest without overlapping, attribute values must be quoted, there must be exactly one root element, and the characters & and < must be escaped as & and < in text.
Only the whitespace between elements is re-indented; text is never changed. Mixed content, where text and tags are interleaved as in XHTML or DocBook, CDATA sections, comments and elements with xml:space="preserve" are kept exactly as written, because whitespace there can be meaningful. Errors are found with fast-xml-parser's validator and reported with their line and column.
Popular uses
- Reading SOAP and legacy API responses
- Inspecting RSS, Atom and sitemap files
- Tidying Android layouts, pom.xml and other XML configs
- Finding the unclosed tag in a broken document
Tips for the best result
- An error about an 'unescaped &' usually comes from a URL with query parameters inside the XML; write it as &.
- A byte order mark or blank line before the <?xml ...?> declaration makes some parsers fail; the declaration must come first.
- To compare two XML files, format both here first and then use the diff checker.
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