xml-beautify
xml-beautify - pretty-print text in XML formats.
It is licensed under MIT license.
How to use?
var beautifiedXmlText = new XmlBeautify().beautify(srcXmlText,
{
indent: " ", //indent pattern like white spaces
useSelfClosingElement: true //true:use self-closing element when empty element.
});Example of result
[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>
Install
install via npm
npm install xml-beautifyuse from CDN
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/xml-beautify@1.2.1/dist/XmlBeautify.js"></script>
Demo
demo on the web
https://riversun.github.io/xml-beautify/index.html
demo on node.js
clone this project and type
git clone https://github.com/riversun/xml-beautify.git
npm startRun on Browser
<!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>Run on Node.js
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 })- Example for Node.js
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);