[BobBailey]

I have an xml file that I want to edit a bit. Problem is that it comes up largely, actually completely, as one very long line. Since it was generated by another app I’m reluctant to reformat it for my purposes.
Is it possible through a plug-in or some such to render this code as it appears in Firefox or IE? That is, indented and single lines per tag?
This is probably a duh and I did search but all I found were fairly esoteric Q&A.
TIA… Bob

[Stefan]

You can use any command line tool, like “HTML Tidy” (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/)
 
How-to

Download, unpack (I have a sub folder “Tools” in my EmEditor folder)

and add a EmEditor Tool:

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Tools > External Tools > Customize Tools > New
 
Title: HTML Tidy -xml
Command: .\Tools\HTMLTidy\tidy_(25mar2009)\tidy.exe
Arguments: -xml -i -q “$(Path)”
 
[X] Use Output Bar
Input: Document
Output: Replace Document
OK
 
OK
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For example see for more:
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/tidy_man.html
http://xmlwriter.net/user_tools/tidy.shtml 

(Currently I don’t know how to just replace the document without opening the output bar ???)

 
Open your file. run the new tool, close Output bar, done.

 
HTH? ;D

[BobBailey]

Thanks. I found a macro that does it quite nicely: XMLFormatter.jsee
…Bob

[Scott Beeson]

For anyone else who finds this, if you copy and paste Stefan’s settings be sure you replace the HTML quotes with normal quotes!

[Mark Paulson]

I’m a noob and can’t seem to get this to work. I could use some help getting tidy to work.

Thanks

[Yutaka Emura]

As for HTML Tidy, there is a description with a screenshot at the bottom this page:

https://www.emeditor.com/text-editor-features/extensibility/external-tools/

Thanks,

[Author]

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