Format an XML Document Online

Quick Start

1. 1Paste your XML into the input area
2. 2Pick 2 spaces, 4 spaces, or tabs for indentation
3. 3Format to beautify or minify to compress
4. 4Review any validation errors and copy the output

What This Tool Does

Limits Worth Knowing

• Formatting trims whitespace inside text nodes, so a document where leading or trailing spaces inside an element carry meaning should be minified rather than formatted.
• Minify protects CDATA sections and, when comments are kept, comment bodies, so their contents are never collapsed.
• The element and attribute counts in the stats bar are quick approximations rather than a full document walk.
• Syntax coloring is dropped above roughly 5000 output lines and the stats bar is skipped for documents over two megabytes. Formatting itself still works in both cases.
• The JSON view is lossy by design: attributes become keys prefixed with an at sign, mixed text becomes a #text key, every value stays a string, and comments and the doctype are dropped.

Common Questions