Prettify-Xml

Sat 17 May 2025

title: "Prettify XML" author: "Rj" date: 2019-04-20 description: "List Test" type: technical_note draft: false

import xmltodict
import pprint
import json

import xml.dom.minidom

dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse('sample.xml') # or xml.dom.minidom.parseString(xml_string)
pretty_xml_as_string = dom.toprettyxml()

pretty_xml_as_string

'<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n<note>\n\t\n       \n\t<to>Tove</to>\n\t\n       \n\t<from>Jani</from>\n\t\n       \n\t<heading>Reminder</heading>\n\t\n       \n\t<body>Don\'t forget me this weekend!</body>\n\t\n   \n</note>\n'

dom

<xml.dom.minidom.Document at 0x105ef7588>

Score: 5

Category: basics