opaxmlindent(8)

✨ NAME ✨

opaxmlindent — bestie this is the (Linux) glow-up tool for your XML 🎀

So like, you feed it XML that's well-formed (that part is non-negotiable, she's not a miracle worker 💅), and she:

• filters out all the comments (bye 👋)
• spits out an equivalent XML file that's uniformly indented ✨

Basically she's your reformatting bestie. Use opaxmlindent when you wanna reformat files so they're easier to read and review, and also when you wanna reformat a file so it's easy to compare with diff. No cap, that's the whole vibe check. 🦋

🌸 Syntax 🌸

opaxmlindent [-t|-k] [-i  indent] [ input_file]

Yes queen, that's the whole incantation. 🪄

💖 Options 💖

• --help — she spills the full help text. All the tea, no filter. ☕
• -t — trims the leading and trailing whitespace in tag contents. Snip snip, clean edges, periodt. ✂️
• -k — for tags that are purely whitespace and contain newlines, this keeps those newlines exactly as-is. The default behavior is to format it as an empty list instead. So like, -k says "leave my newlines alone bestie" 🥺
• -i indent — sets how much indentation gets used per level. Default is 4. Cute, cozy, four spaces of personal space. 🫶
• input_file — the XML file to read. Default is stdin, so if you don't name a file she'll just read whatever you pipe at her. 💜

🌈 Heads up babes: the input has to be well-formed XML or this whole thing falls apart. Also remember comments get filtered out — so if you had important notes in there, they're gone, no take-backs, main character exit. 💀

Copyright(C) 2015-2019 Intel Corporation — ok that's the legal bit, gotta respect it. 💅

And that's the page, bestie! This was opaxmlindent(8) from the IFSFFCLIRG (Man Page) collection — go forth and make your XML pretty. Slay, reformat, repeat. 👑✨🎀