XML Beautifier.

[cagey]

Does anyone know of a good beautifier for XML that works with Visual Studio? Unfortunately, for now I am stuck with Visual C++ 6.0, but I would like to use it to edit XML, and most of the XML I am working with is poorly formatted (actually, all one line). I guess a reasonable follow up question would be, does anyone know of a good XML editor (that doesn't cost much)? But I would really prefer to do my editing in Dev Studio, so a plugin is still preferable. Thanks, Cagey

[G Steudtel]

Hi, I don't know about a beautifier, but have a look at www.firstobject.com, there will be an inexpensive (no cost) xml editor. Regards G. Steudtel

[Davy Mitchell]

I use cooktop (I think thats the name!) and it is excellent. It formats and validates XML, XSL etc. Davy
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http://xmlcooktop.com/[^] Davy
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[Blake Coverett]

Certainly not a plugin, though you could add it to your tools menu easily enough. This is what I use:

using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
class FormatXml {
static void Main(string[] args) {
XmlTextReader r = new XmlTextReader(args[0]);
XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter(new StreamWriter(args[1]));
r.WhitespaceHandling = WhitespaceHandling.None;
w.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
w.Indentation = 1;
w.IndentChar = '\t';
w.QuoteChar = '\'';
w.WriteNode(r, false);
w.Close();
}
}

Adjust the Indentation, IndentChar and QuoteChar properties to match your tastes. -- -Blake (com/bcdev/blake)

[dog_spawn]

Frontpage 2003 (ick!) beautifies XML. It is a very poor XML editor though (no surprise eh?).