Comments on: PHP XML formatter tool rewrite

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:24:24 +0000

I’ve got a fix for the close tag issue. I suspect this works fine on your install, since you are probably using libxml2; since I am using Expat, the tag is not consumed until after the start_element_handler is called, and accordingly the _open value is wrongly set.

I will push my fix to Github in due course.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:47:41 +0000

Great effort Žilvinas – thank you.

I am finding that it removes comments, which I would like to preserve. Also, it replaces self-closed tags with a manual close – I’d like to respect the choice of the original XML.

I’ll have a hack about to see if I can sort these things out, but do let me know if there’s any known fixes for them

By: Tommy K.

Tommy K. — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:08:43 +0000

Yeap, it does what I need beautifully, would you make this available for download?

By: Žilvinas Šaltys

Žilvinas Šaltys — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:51:25 +0000

This is actually your lucky day. One of my colleagues recently needed such a tool and I’ve created it for him but never published it. You can find it here: http://www.thedeveloperday.com/tools/beautyXML2/ Let me know if it works ok for you.

By: Tommy K.

Tommy K. — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:49:09 +0000

Excuse me for my *maybe* noob request, but can you make this tool available with a textbox input like the older version (paste the code hit the button and it’s beautifully formatted), I’m working as a front-end developer and sometimes I need to make minor modifications in xsl files which are horribly formatted, and this would be a really big help.

Much appreciated your work!

By: Eric M

Eric M — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:27:30 +0000

This is the only thing I’ve seen to do what I needed. Thanks a ton!!! So easy to use too, even for a novice.

By: Žilvinas Šaltys

Žilvinas Šaltys — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:42:56 +0000

You can use it with strings. All you need to do is convert your strings to streams:

$input = fopen(‘data://text/plain,’ . $input, ‘r’);
$output = fopen(“php://temp”, ‘w+’);

$formatter = new XML_Formatter($input, $output);
$formatter->format();

rewind($output);
$result = htmlspecialchars(stream_get_contents($output), ENT_QUOTES);

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:46:15 +0000

Shot – this is awesome

By: Nick Weavers

Nick Weavers — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:04:05 +0000

Very useful, thanks for sharing it. Would be nice to have it work with strings too. I just want to format SOAP headers so passing in a string variable and getting another out would be very convenient.

By: Ken S

Ken S — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:10:46 +0000

Thanks a TON! I was trying to figure out my XML doc for about 6hrs. After I used your MAGIC rewrite tool, I had it figured out in about 5 mins!!!