xml format
Format an XML document. More information: http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/docs.php.
- Format an XML document, indenting with tabs:
xml format --indent-tab {{path/to/input.xml|URI}} > {{path/to/output.xml}}
- Format an HTML document, indenting with 4 spaces:
xml format --html --indent-spaces {{4}} {{path/to/input.html|URI}} > {{path/to/output.html}}
- Recover parsable parts of a malformed XML document, without indenting:
xml format --recover --noindent {{path/to/malformed.xml|URI}} > {{path/to/recovered.xml}}
- Format an XML document from
stdin
, removing theDOCTYPE
declaration:
cat {{path\to\input.xml}} | xml format --dropdtd > {{path/to/output.xml}}
- Format an XML document, omitting the XML declaration:
xml format --omit-decl {{path\to\input.xml|URI}} > {{path/to/output.xml}}
- Display help:
xml format --help