How to pretty print XML from the command line?
You can also use tidy, which may need to be installed first (e.g. on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install tidy
).
For this, you would issue something like following:
tidy -xml -i your-file.xml > output.xml
Note: has many additional readability flags, but word-wrap behavior is a bit annoying to untangle (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html).
xmllint
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 (works also on legacy python2):
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'
xmllint --format yourxmlfile.xml
xmllint is a command line XML tool and is included in libxml2
(http://xmlsoft.org/).
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Note: If you don't have libxml2
installed you can install it by doing the following:
CentOS
cd /tmp
wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz
tar xzf libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz
cd libxml2-2.8.0/
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd
Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libxml2-utils
Cygwin
apt-cyg install libxml2
MacOS
To install this on MacOS with Homebrew just do:
brew install libxml2
Git
Also available on Git if you want the code:
git clone git://git.gnome.org/libxml2