Pretty printing XML files on Emacs

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cnu picture cnu · Aug 15, 2008 · Viewed 40.4k times · Source

I use emacs to edit my xml files (nxml-mode) and the files were generated by machine don't have any pretty formatting of the tags.

I have searched for pretty printing the entire file with indentation and saving it, but wasn't able to find an automatic way.

Is there a way? Or atleast some editor on linux which can do it.

Answer

Juan Garcia picture Juan Garcia · Feb 27, 2009

You don't even need to write your own function - sgml-mode (a gnu emacs core module) has a built-in pretty printing function called (sgml-pretty-print ...) which takes region beginning and end arguments.

If you are cutting and pasting xml and you find your terminal is chopping the lines in arbitrary places you can use this pretty printer which fixes broken lines first.

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