XML Formatter

Beautify, minify and validate XML documents, with custom indentation, content collapsing and comment stripping.

Format Settings

Indentation

Indent Size

Collapse Content

Strip Comments

Input

Output

Usage

Features

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Steps

Paste or import XML, or click "Sample" to load an example.
Click "Format" to beautify, or "Minify" for compact output.
Click "Validate" to check whether the XML is well-formed.
On error, the message and position are shown below the input.
Results can be copied or downloaded as an .xml file.

Technical Notes

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Supports UTF-8 encoding and namespaces.
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Automatically detects element count, attribute count and nesting depth.
Real-time validation formats as you type.

Multi-language Support

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