XML Formatter

How to use it

1. Paste XML into the left panel — a SOAP envelope, an RSS feed, an Android layout or a build file.
2. Pick Beautify to re-indent or Minify to collapse the document to one line.
3. Beautify indents nested elements by two spaces and keeps elements that contain only text on a single line.
4. Comments, CDATA sections, the XML declaration and DOCTYPE lines pass through untouched.
5. Copy or clear the result; the status line shows element count and output size.

Common use cases

• Reading machine-generated XML — turn one-line SOAP or config output into a reviewable tree.
• Shrinking feeds — minify RSS or sitemap files before embedding them in fixtures or logs.
• Diff preparation — normalize indentation from different authors before comparing files.
• Inspecting build files — reformat Maven, Ant or Android XML that arrived with erratic spacing.

Why it stays private

The formatter is a self-contained tokenizer and rewriter in your browser. Documents with endpoints, credentials or business data never leave the page.

FAQ

Q: Does it validate my XML? A: Only lightly. The tokenizer needs matching angle brackets and quotes, but it does not check element nesting or DTD/schema validity — malformed nesting is reprinted as-is rather than fixed.

Q: What happens to whitespace inside text nodes? A: When beautifying, a text-only child is trimmed and kept inline with its element. Whitespace between block elements is dropped, which is the conventional pretty-print behavior.

Q: Are attribute values reordered or rewritten? A: No. Attributes keep their order and their exact values; only whitespace between attributes is collapsed.