tldr/pages/common/xml-format.md

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 the DOCTYPE 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 for the format subcommand:

xml format --help