Reformat xml (html) function

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January 29, 2013 at 2:04 pm #19644
horus Member	Since there is no search function in this new version of forum, sorry that I have to ask this question: Is there a function (or addon) to reformat xml strings? For example, I have an xml element like this: aaaabbbb I would like a function to reformat it nicely and output something like: aaaa bbbb
February 1, 2013 at 2:45 pm #19646
horus Member	My example was badly formatted…. so let’s me write the xml again using [ and ] [a]aaaa[b]bbbb[/b][c attrib="cccc" /][/a] [a] aaaa [b] bbbb [/b] [c attrib="cccc" /] [/a]
February 4, 2013 at 10:14 pm #19648
aland Member	Not sure if it’s a great solution, but I would just use find replace allowing backslash expressions, eg: first find: ] replace: ]\n, second find: [ replace: \n[ then use find: ^\n replace: (nothing) to remove any blank lines. There’s a magnifying glass in top right for search, but it seems broken. Just use google http://www.google.com/search?q=site:pnotepad.org/forums to search
February 5, 2013 at 9:52 am #19649
horus Member	As a matter of fact, I’m already using the method you mentioned as a temporary incomplete workaround. The problem with this method is that there is no indentation and you can’t easily see the level. (In my second post, I had put in some spaces but WordPress removed them all!)
February 6, 2013 at 9:34 pm #19653
simon Key Master	I normally use HTML Tidy to do this job for me. See the docs site for configuration: http://pnotepad.org/docs/tools/xml_formatting
February 7, 2013 at 4:26 pm #19657
horus Member	Thanks. OK, if my guess is correct, I have to search “HTML Tidy” in Google and download the “tidy.exe” from their website. Could you make the words “HTML tidy” into a hyperlink to point to http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ please? However, I’m unable to reformat xml string as suggested by that webpage of yours. I got these errors: HTML Tidy: unknown option: w HTML Tidy: unknown option: l Error: Can’t open “CRLF” Error: Can’t open “–tab-size” Error: Can’t open “4″ I listed out tidy.exe options and it seems that “-newline” and “–tab-size” are not options. Something has changed? Moreover, it took me some time to figure out what I was supposed to do! Maybe a little bit more explanation in that page is preferable.

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