Comments on blog.bookworm.at: Pretty Print XML With Emacs

@Doc Avid: Thanks for the fix! I updated my post...

2011-02-03T01:51:09.678-08:00

@Doc Avid:
Thanks for the fix!
I updated my post with your code.

Don't like how Tidy works. I've been using...

2011-02-02T17:50:16.576-08:00

Don't like how Tidy works. I've been using your function for some time. Thanks!

Always been somewhat bothered by how with larger XML regions, it sometimes leaves the last few lines or so unindented. I just finally got annoyed enough to fix it.

Just need to increment the end variable after adding the newline to compensate for the fact that you're making the region larger.

(defun bf-pretty-print-xml-region (begin end)
"Pretty format XML markup in region. You need to have nxml-mode
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/NxmlMode installed to do
this. The function inserts linebreaks to separate tags that have
nothing but whitespace between them. It then indents the markup
by using nxml's indentation rules."
(interactive "r")
(save-excursion
(nxml-mode)
(goto-char begin)
(while (search-forward-regexp "\>[ \\t]*\<" nil t)
(backward-char) (insert "\n") (setq end (1+ end)))
(indent-region begin end))
(message "Ah, much better!"))

well done, much thx!

2010-12-02T00:13:32.933-08:00

well done, much thx!

Just what I was looking for! Thanks!

2010-05-24T18:30:45.995-07:00

Just what I was looking for! Thanks!

I love this piece of software !!! Before I used xm...

2010-03-03T06:01:19.527-08:00

I love this piece of software !!! Before I used xmllint (from cygwin) but this is easier to use.

One note however: CDATA blocks are not properly indented. But again this might be a feature of the indentation routine of nxml rather than a problem in the "Pretty print XML" code. For xml with CDATA sections xmllint might indent better.

nice job. I'm using your function with (delete-...

2009-05-06T00:21:00.000-07:00
nice job.
I'm using your function with (delete-trailing-whitespace) function after (indent region begin end) .
regards