📖 Description
1. Core Application Scenarios
- API Debugging: Quickly format compressed XML response bodies (e.g., from Web Services/SOAP) returned by APIs to facilitate troubleshooting of logical errors.
- Configuration Maintenance: Organize complex files like
web.config, pom.xml, or Android layout files to clarify nested relationships.
- Data Validation: Automatically detect tag closure issues in XML during the formatting process, identifying potential syntax errors.
- Document Cleanup: Remove redundant spaces and line breaks, or compress multi-line XML into a single line (Minify) for production environment distribution.
2. Core Feature Analysis
This site's tool combines a high-performance parsing engine with user-friendly interactive design:
A. Intelligent Indentation & Alignment
- Multi-level Indentation: Automatically recognizes node depth, supports custom indentation characters (spaces or Tabs) and length (2 or 4 spaces).
- Attribute Arrangement: Automatically handles attributes within overly long tags, ensuring clear visual alignment.
B. Syntax Highlighting & Folding
- Color Differentiation: Uses different colors to distinguish tags, attributes, text content, comments, and CDATA blocks, enabling quick location of key data.
- Node Folding: Supports clicking the sidebar to collapse large XML nodes, allowing focus on the code segment currently under analysis.
C. Bidirectional Processing Modes
- Beautify: Adds line breaks and indentation to improve code readability.
- Minify: Removes all unnecessary whitespace and comments to generate the smallest possible XML, enhancing data transmission efficiency.
D. Error Detection & Hints
- If the input XML contains illegal syntax such as unclosed tags or unescaped special characters, the tool will instantly highlight the erroneous line number and provide correction suggestions.
3. Brief Operation Process
- Paste Code: Paste the original XML text into the "Input Area".
- Set Parameters: Choose your preferred indentation method (default is 4 spaces).
- One-click Conversion:
- Click "Format (Beautify)" for formatting.
- Click "Compress (Minify)" for whitespace removal.
- Apply Results: Click "Copy Code" or download directly as an
.xml file.
4. Before & After Formatting Example
Before Formatting (Compressed State):
XML
<note><to>George</to><from>John</from><heading>Reminder</heading><body>Don't forget the meeting!</body></note>
After Formatting (Processed by this site):
XML
<note>
<to>George</to>
<from>John</from>
<heading>Reminder</heading>
<body>Don't forget the meeting!</body>
</note>
5. Why Choose This Online XML Formatter?
- 100% Local Processing, Absolute Privacy: All processing logic is executed in the browser frontend. Your data is never uploaded to a server, providing physical-level security for configuration files and interface data containing commercial secrets.
- Large File Support: Memory-optimized for XML documents of several megabytes (MB) in size, ensuring no page lag or unresponsiveness.
- Full Platform Compatibility: Works on Windows, macOS, and mobile devices. No IDE plugins to install, ready to use upon opening the webpage.
- Clean & Unobtrusive: Focused on being a tool, free of pop-up ads, allowing developers to maintain high concentration.
For more foundational knowledge about XML, please read: XML In-Depth Analysis: The Cornerstone and Evolution of Structured Data