Comments on: Format XML with TextWrangler

By: Jelle

Jelle — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:35:20 +0000

Thanks a lot, really useful!

By: thomaslund

thomaslund — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:02:10 +0000

I removed the –c14n option and it left my CDATA intact.

xmllint "$*" | XMLLINT_INDENT=$'\t' xmllint --encode UTF-8 --format -

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:38:34 +0000

Very helpful. Thank you very much for taking the time to write this up.

By: John Reeder

John Reeder — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:02:46 +0000

Dude, where can I send $1,000,000.00? Seriously, Text Wrangler is my text editor of choice but it’s lack of pretty printing functionality for xml was a pain. I have been looking for a good xml editor to accomplish just what this simple script does. Thanks a bunch!

By: lutomas

lutomas — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:40:33 +0000

Thanks!!!

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:12:39 +0000

Great solution! However, there's a big caveat: Tidy also deletes CDATA tags! If you need your XML to maintain the original text as it was, you may run into trouble. Tidy does "the right thing" by replacing sensitive characters with their entities, e.g.: [sourcecode language="xml"][CDATA[Your measurement of n was correct if n<2.5]]>[/sourcecode] is transformed to [sourcecode language="xml"]Your measurement of n was correct if n<2.5[/sourcecode] This is OK for information in an HTML context, but not if you need the content for other output channels like print!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:32:11 +0000

Thank you Thank you Thank you.

By: Eoin

Eoin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:31:06 +0000

Hi Piotr, you could try posting the xml in the comment within the sourcecode shortcode

By: Eoin

Eoin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:29:42 +0000

Hi Michael, you could try posting the xml in the comment within the sourcecode shortcode

By: Michael Worthington

Michael Worthington — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:43:48 +0000

Looks like it didn’t post my XML examples. Here they are:

Desired:

“”

Currently, the script truncates to this:

“”