Pretty Printing XML on Windows.

It happens to the best of us, we get some ugly XML string with no formatting, and we need to view it, ideally in a formatted fashion. XMLLint is the answer. Ugly XML is the input, nicely formatted XML is the output. Finding a version of XMLLint for windows was a challenge till I found this project: http://code.google.com/p/xmllint. Unfortunately this xmllint requires an xml filename as input, and I wanted a version that takes xml on stdin, and produces pretty xml on stdout(*). Luckily this project had source code available and the pretty printing is trivial, here's the full code listing for 'my version' of XMLLint:



Example Usage(+):









NOTES:

(*) StdIn -> Filter -> StdOut is a common trick for VI folks. the syntax is: :%!

(+) Any guesses why I needed a screen shot for example usage?

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