About the XML Formatter / Beautifier
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is widely used in enterprise services, SOAP APIs, RSS feeds, Android manifests, and configuration files. However, raw XML exports are frequently collapsed onto a single line without indentation. This XML Formatter parses and beautifies XML documents into clean, indented structures.
This tool is useful for backend engineers integrating SOAP/XML web services, mobile developers configuring XML layouts, and system administrators editing application server configs. It properly nests elements, formats attributes, and handles self-closing tags and CDATA blocks.
To use it, paste your XML into the input box, choose your indentation size (2 or 4 spaces), and click 'Format / Beautify XML'. The formatted document appears in the output box with line and character count stats.
For example, a raw XML string is indented hierarchically with closing tags vertically aligned with their opening counterparts.
A frequent XML issue is unescaped special characters inside text nodes. In XML, characters like '&' and '<' must be escaped as '&' and '<' or wrapped in CDATA blocks.
Tip: If you need to confirm that an XML document has no syntax errors before deploying, use our XML Validator tool.