text-mode editor for xml

vu pham vu at sivell.com
Thu Mar 5 13:33:26 PST 2009


James McDonald wrote:
> vu pham wrote:
>> I have to edit an xml file in raw format. This file has almost no 
>> CR/LF and put all keys with their brackets in one line.
>> Does vi has option to reformat it with appropriate cr/lf so it is 
>> easier to read ? Or any other text editor ?
>>
>> Btw, it must in in text mode, not X.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vu
>>
> xmllint --format xmlfile.xml
> 
> tidy -xml -indent -w 0 xmlfile.xml
> 

Thanks, James. I like this xmllint because it already is in my RH 
servers. I just didn't know about it. tidy is cool, too, but it looks 
like it  not include in the RHEL or Fedora repos.

Vu



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