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Is there a (unix) shell script to format XML in human-readable form?
Basically, I want it to transform the following:
<root><foo a="b">lorem</foo><bar value="ipsum" /></root>
... into something like this:
<root>
<foo a="b">lorem</foo>
<bar value="ipsum" />
</root>
libxml2-utils
This utility comes with libxml2-utils
:
echo '<root><foo a="b">lorem</foo><bar value="ipsum" /></root>' |
xmllint --format -
Perl's XML::Twig
This command comes with XML::Twig perl module, sometimes xml-twig-tools
package:
echo '<root><foo a="b">lorem</foo><bar value="ipsum" /></root>' |
xml_pp
xmlstarlet
This command comes with xmlstarlet
:
echo '<root><foo a="b">lorem</foo><bar value="ipsum" /></root>' |
xmlstarlet format --indent-tab
tidy
Check the tidy
package:
echo '<root><foo a="b">lorem</foo><bar value="ipsum" /></root>' |
tidy -xml -i -
Python
Python's xml.dom.minidom
can format XML (both python2 and python3):
echo '<root><foo a="b">lorem</foo><bar value="ipsum" /></root>' |
python -c 'import sys;import xml.dom.minidom;s=sys.stdin.read();print(xml.dom.minidom.parseString(s).toprettyxml())'
saxon-lint
You need saxon-lint
:
echo '<root><foo a="b">lorem</foo><bar value="ipsum" /></root>' |
saxon-lint --indent --xpath '/' -
saxon-HE
You need saxon-HE
:
echo '<root><foo a="b">lorem</foo><bar value="ipsum" /></root>' |
java -cp /usr/share/java/saxon/saxon9he.jar net.sf.saxon.Query \
-s:- -qs:/ '!indent=yes'