See the https://github.com/hotosm/scripts for tools to help process these.
XMLLINT will auto indent your xml files.
This is extremely useful for doing multiple line find-replace functions.
First you can find-replace all occurances of tab(\t) with nothing(blank) in the file to unindent it.
Then you can do multiple line find-replace to add or delete code (\n
is line return,
\t
is tab
$ sudo apt-get install libxml2-utils
XMLLINT by default uses to spaces( ) to index instead of tab(\t).
To change this to tab run:
$ gedit ~/.bashrc
Once in this file add these lines onto the end of the file:
# set tab as default for xmllint --format
export XMLLINT_INDENT=$'\t'
Save the file
To run XMLLINT run this command:
$ xmllint --format [FILE_NAME] > [NEW_FILE_NAME]
To not create a new file run:
$ xmllint --format [FILE_NAME] > temp; mv temp [FILE_NAME]