format-xml

A command line utility to help format XML from stdin to stdout.

• format-xml
  • Build Statuses
  • Usage
    • Examples
  • Building
    • Version
  • License

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Usage

The utility is called fxml. It takes XML via stdin and outputs the formatted XML via stdout. Errors are written to stderr.

Empty input results in empty output.

If the XML is invalid or cannot be formatted, an error will be written to stderr and the input will be written to stdout.

If an error occurs, fxml will still return 0. If you would like a non-zero value returned, you can pass the --strict flag.

Examples

Basic usage:

cat file.xml | fxml > formatted.xml
echo "<tag/>" | fxml

To return a non-zero value on error:

cat invalid.xml | fxml --strict > formatted.xml

Note that formatted.xml will still contain the contents of invalid.xml, because on error, the contents of stdin are outputted to stdout.

To see the help text:

fxml --help

Building

Make sure you have the .NET 8 SDK installed.

To build, simply run the build.py script. This will build, test and package the application. The resulting package will be saved in ./packages/fxml.tar.gz.

To build manually, you can do this from this repository's root directory:

dotnet build ./src/
dotnet test ./src/ --no-build
dotnet publish ./src/FormatXML/ --configuration="release" --output="./src/build/" --self-contained true

This will create a binary in the ./src/build/ directory called FormatXML.

Version

You can set the version in the /src/version.txt file. The version is expected to be on the first line of this file. Each time you submit a PR, please update this version manually.

License