xmlpretty(1)

NAME

       xmlpretty - XML pretty printer

SYNOPSIS

         xmlpretty [--options] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       xmlpretty is the commandline interface to XML::Handler::YAWriter, act-
       ing as a tool to add and remove pretty printing to XML files.

       xmlpretty has several methods to add human readablitiy.

       If you want to add readablity without adding so-called ignorable white-
       space, use it in the following way :

         $ xmlpretty --AddHiddenNewline \
                     --AddHiddenAttrTab \
                 --CatchEmptyElement \
                 uglyfile.xml > prettyfile.xml

       If you do not want to process the file further, but only want it human
       readable, add visible whitespace to the file as follows :

         $ xmlpretty --PrettyWhiteNewline \
                     --PrettyWhiteIndent \
                 --CatchEmptyElement \
                 uglyfile.xml > prettyfile.xml

       You may use YAWriter to clean whitespace from XML documents.  This may
       work in 99% of the cases where you want to get rid of ignorable white-
       space caused by the various forms of pretty printing.

         $ xmlpretty --NoWhiteSpace \
                     --NoComments \
                     --AddHiddenNewline \
                 --AddHiddenAttrTab \
                 --CatchEmptyElement \
                 prettyfile.xml > cleanfile.xml

       Options

       Options are given in a gnu like --option idiom.

       AddHiddenNewline boolean
           Add hidden newline before ">"

       AddHiddenAttrTab boolean
           Add hidden tabulation for attributes

       CatchEmptyElement boolean
           Catch empty Elements, apply "/>" compression

       CatchWhiteSpace boolean
           Catch whitespace with comments

       IsSGML boolean
           This option will cause start_document, processing_instruction and
           doctype_decl to appear as SGML. The SGML is still well-formed of
           course, if your SAX events are well-formed.

       NoComments boolean
           Supress Comments

       NoDTD boolean
           Supress DTD

       NoPI boolean
           Supress Processing Instructions

       NoProlog boolean
           Supress <?xml ... ?> Prolog

       NoWhiteSpace boolean
           Supress WhiteSpace to clean documents from prior pretty printing.

       PrettyWhiteIndent boolean
           Add visible indent before any eventstring

       PrettyWhiteNewline boolean
           Add visible newlines before any eventstring

       SAX1 boolean (not yet implemented)
           Output only SAX1 compilant eventstrings

       Bugs:

       Automatic recoding between 8bit and 16bit does not yet work correctly !

       I have Perl-5.6 at home and here I can specify "use utf8;" in the right
       places to make recoding work. But I dislike saying "use 5.00555;"
       because many systems run 5.00503.

AUTHOR

       Michael Koehne, Kraehe@Copyleft.De

Thanks

       "Derksen, Eduard (Enno), CSCIO" <enno@att.com> helped me with the
       Escape hash and gave quite a lot of usefull comments.

SEE ALSO

       perl and XML::Parser::PerlSAX

perl v5.8.8                       2000-06-19                      XMLPRETTY(1)