XML Formatter
Paste XML to indent it neatly, minify it, view it as a tree or convert it to JSON. Syntax errors are shown with their line and column.
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- Runs in your browser
Guides for this tool
All guidesWhy format XML in the browser
XML remains important for enterprise services, RSS feeds, SVG snippets, and legacy configuration. A dependable formatter reduces eye strain when you audit namespaces, attributes, and mixed content. Validation highlights parser errors before you paste fragments into servers that might reject malformed documents outright.
Large XML files can include processing instructions and entities that behave differently across parsers. Always confirm which schema or DTD your downstream consumer expects, especially when dealing with digital signatures or canonicalization rules. This tool focuses on structural readability rather than cryptographic guarantees.
Pair XML workflows with our JSON and YAML converters when teams migrate configurations toward lighter syntax. The To JSON button above gives you a quick first pass you can paste straight into a converter.