Recommended XML program for indenting CSL for Github

Devin Roza · April 22, 2013

When I have uploaded CSL formats to GitHub I've noticed they usually get reformatted to look nicer, mainly modifying the indenting.

Is there a particular program or webpage you recommend for that? At one point I tried to reproduce the GitHub indenting style you tend to do for CSL formats using a few different free XML editors but without much luck.

Rintze · April 22, 2013

I reformat the styles in the repository periodically with a Python script, which relies on the pretty-print feature of the lxml XML processing library.

For individual styles I usually use the jEdit text editor with its XML plugin.

Some other options: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/193728/free-xml-formatting-tool

adamsmith · April 22, 2013

as a shortcut if you're not doing this a lot, you can also use

http://www.freeformatter.com/xml-formatter.html#ad-output
set indentation to 2 and then remove the spaces before /> (i.e. search&replace " />" --> "/>"

Devin Roza · April 22, 2013

Great, thanks.