XML Text Format

Question

Does anyone know of a good program where I can paste in xml (getting it from a System.out in my java class) and it will format the xml so it's not a really long line of text?

Answer 1

I like XMLPad. It has a nice formatter plus a bunch of visualisers such as tree view and grid view. There is also a nice interactive XPath query tool and probably many more features.

Answer 2

Visual Studio does this (you can download the express verison for free).

If not, Try Liquid XML - it's free, and it's also got an xpath visualiser which is very handy.

Answer 3

Did you try your favorite browser? You can't really paste it, but you can open any XML file and both IE and Firefox will display a nice, collapsible tree view of the XML hierarchy.

Answer 4

If you have it already, try visual studio (otherwise it is perhaps too much to download =)) Visual Studio formats the xml very nice, you can edit it, and you have a collapsible tree view. Just paste it in visual studio then press ctrl+k+d and you get formatted xml code.

Answer 5

Notepad++ if you don't want to use a XML editor.

Answer 6

If you'd like more control over how the formatted text looks, you could try an XML formatter

Answer 7

You can reformat XML files in Eclipse using Source > Format