📃 XML Formatter

📚 User Guide

Features

• Beautify: Format compressed XML into readable indented format
• Minify: Remove spaces and line breaks, minimize XML size
• Validate: Check if XML syntax is correct

XML Basics

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a markup language used for storing and transmitting data.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<bookstore>
  <book category="web">
    <title lang="en">Learning XML</title>
    <author>Erik T. Ray</author>
    <year>2003</year>
    <price>39.95</price>
  </book>
</bookstore>
                

XML vs JSON

Feature	XML	JSON
Readability	Good	Better
Data Size	Larger	Smaller
Parsing Speed	Slower	Faster
Supports Attributes	Yes	No

Use Cases

• Configuration files (e.g., pom.xml, web.xml)
• SOAP Web services
• RSS/Atom feeds
• Document formats (e.g., Office Open XML)
• Data exchange

Common Errors

• Tags not properly closed
• Attribute values not quoted
• Special characters not escaped (&, <, >, ", ')
• Tag case mismatch
• Missing root element