Download and Installation Usage Known Problems tkxsltproc TclTidy Xmlgen Success Stories: xmllint is a command-line tool for parsing XML documents. It is part of the Gnome libxml2 package. Tkxmllint is a GUI version of that tool.
TclXMLxmllint is a command-line tool for parsing XML documents. It is part of the Gnome libxml2 package. tkxmllint is a GUI version of that tool.
Download and InstallationVersion 1.7: Mac OS XMS Windows (Linux: Coming soon!).
Unpack the distribution.
Windows users: use WinZip and extract the zip file.
Mac users: StuffIt Expander will decompress the disk image and mount it on your desktop.
Use the program.
Windows users: The distribution unpacks into a new directory called tkxmllint-1.7. Double-click the tkxmllint.exe program inside that directory.
NB. If you want to move the application to a new location, you must move the entire directory - not just the executable file.
Mac users: Copy the tkxmllint application to your Applications folder.
Use the 'browse' button to locate an XML document. A future release will allow a HTTP URL to be entered.
Set the controls, such as validation and display. Future releases will support more of the standard xmllint options.
Press the 'Check' button to read the document.
tkxmllint v1.6 solves the problem with DTD validation.
XML or extensible markup language is popular data structure used to express data in a exchangeable format. It is mostly used for configuration and data exchange between web services. While inspecting some XML in Linux via command line we generally need to print in a more readable and structured way. In this tutorial we will look how to pretty print XML in Linux command line.
xmllint
is a tool provided by libxml2-utils
package. It can be installed like below for deb based distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and Kali
Or rpm based distributions like Fedora, CentOS, RedHat
We can format xml file named data.xml
like below by providing --format
option.
xml_pp
is provided by xml-twig-tools
and can be installed like below.
OR
We can use xml_pp
wiothout providing any option just providing the XML file name like below.
xmlstarlet
is single tool which can format XML in different ways. We can install xmlstarlet for deb based distributions like below.
Or rpm based distribuıtions
We will use format
and --indent-tab
for the command and tab indentation.
tidy
tool is developed to read and write cleaned-up markup for HTMLiXHTML and XML files. We can install for Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and Kali like below.
OR for Fedora, CentOS, RedHat
We will use -xml
to specify the file data format and -i
for indentation.
As we can see tidy provides error or warning information before printing formatted xml.
Yes python have a lot of libraries and one of them is xml
library which can be used to create or parse XML data. We can use xml.dom.minidom
module parseString()
functions like below. We will redirect data of the XML file named data.xml
.