xml-beautify
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XML pretty formatter that corresponds to the self-closing empty elements.
xml-beautify - pretty-print text in XML formats.
It is licensed under MIT license.
var beautifiedXmlText = new XmlBeautify().beautify(srcXmlText,
{
indent: " ", //indent pattern like white spaces
useSelfClosingElement: true //true:use self-closing element when empty element.
});
[BEFORE] source XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><example version="2.0">
<head>
<title>Original Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<element message="Greeting" title="Chapter1">
<element message="We say good morning in the morning."></element><element message="We say hello at noon."/>
<element message="We say good evening at night."/>
</element>
<element message="Thank" title="Chapter2">
<element>value</element>
<element></element><foo><![CDATA[ < > & ]]></foo>
</element>
</body>
</example>
[AFTER] beautified XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<example version="2.0">
<head>
<title>Original Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<element message="Greeting" title="Chapter1">
<element message="We say good morning in the morning." />
<element message="We say hello at noon." />
<element message="We say good evening at night." />
</element>
<element message="Thank" title="Chapter2">
<element>value</element>
<element />
<foo><![CDATA[ < > & ]]></foo>
</element>
</body>
</example>
npm install xml-beautify
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/xml-beautify@1.2.1/dist/XmlBeautify.js"></script>
https://riversun.github.io/xml-beautify/index.html
clone this project and type
git clone https://github.com/riversun/xml-beautify.git
npm start
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<body>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/xml-beautify@1.2.1/dist/XmlBeautify.js"></script>
<script>
const srcXmlText = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><example version="2.0">
<head>
<title>Original Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<element message="Greeting" title="Chapter1">
<element message="We say good morning in the morning."></element><element message="We say hello at noon."/>
<element message="We say good evening at night."/>
</element>
<element message="Thank" title="Chapter2">
<element>value</element>
<element></element>
</element>
</body>
</example>`;
const beautifiedXmlText = new XmlBeautify().beautify(srcXmlText);
console.log(beautifiedXmlText);
</script>
</body>
</html>
To run XmlBeautify on node.js, need to install an external DOMParser like as follows.
npm install xmldom
And specify it as follows,
new XmlBeautify({ parser: DOMParser })
const XmlBeautify = require('xml-beautify');
const { DOMParser } = require('xmldom');// When used in a node.js environment, DOMParser is needed.
const srcXmlText = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><example version="2.0">
<head>
<title>Original Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<element message="Greeting" title="Chapter1">
<element message="We say good morning in the morning."></element><element message="We say hello at noon."/>
<element message="We say good evening at night."/>
</element>
<element message="Thank" title="Chapter2">
<element>value</element>
<element></element>
</element>
</body>
</example>`;
const beautifiedXmlText = new XmlBeautify({ parser: DOMParser }).beautify(srcXmlText);
console.log(beautifiedXmlText);
FAQs
XML pretty formatter that corresponds to the self-closing empty elements.
We found that xml-beautify demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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