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today's software development is unimaginable without XML files. configuration data, request content, documentation - everything is packed into XML today, but often these files are not easy to read and nearly impossible to edit with a normal, straight text editor (the only way in which I edit xml's), simply because some generator bot didn't really care about the end user, or developer, who has to cope with it. to reformat the stuff,
xml format myinput.xml >myoutput.xmland get a well-formatted myoutput.xml. how to reformat many xml files in one command using the free swiss file knife, you can reformat many xml files in one go like this: 1. select the files you are interested in. for example:
sfk list . xml selects all .xml files from the current directory tree, like:
apps\JSR172Demo\server\src\config.xml apps\JSR172Demo\server\src\jaxrpc-ri.xml apps\JSR172Demo\server\src\web.xml 2. extend the command to run xml.exe on each file:
sfk list . xml +run "xml format $file" -to pretty\$file -yes example output:
written: pretty\apps\JSR172Demo\server\src\config.xml written: pretty\apps\JSR172Demo\server\src\jaxrpc-ri.xml written: pretty\apps\JSR172Demo\server\src\web.xml
in this example, the reformatted contents are written into output files under a directory "pretty".
dview . config.xml which simply displays all "config.xml" files in the current directory tree using depeche view:
further reading: how to reformat source code
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