I want to format the output XML generated by Xstream, to make it more readable. Currently, a newline is added after each element but I would like newline to be added after every attribute. Is there a way to do this?
Pretty Print Writer is used by default to format the output of the xml but this doesn't suffice for me. I want newline to be added after every
XStream includes a PrettyPrintWriter
After building your XStream...
XStream xstream = //...whatever
Instead of:
// p is my object needing xml serialization xstream.toXML(p)
Use something like this to make it pretty:
BufferedOutputStream stdout = new BufferedOutputStream(System.out); xstream.marshal(p, new PrettyPrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(stdout)));
Take a look at their tutorial on tweaking the output.