MSXML from C++ - pretty print / indent newly created documents

Question

I\'m writing out XML files using the MSXML parser, with a wrapper I downloaded from here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/XML/JW_CXml.aspx. Works great except that when I crea

Answer 1

I've written a sed script a while back for basic xml indenting. You can use it as an external indenter if all else fails (save this to xmlindent.sed, and process your xml with sed -f xmlindent.sed ). You might need cygwin or some other posix environment to use it though.

Here's the source:

:a
/>/!N;s/\n/ /;ta
s/  / /g;s/^ *//;s/  */ /g
/^/!N;s/\n//;te
s/-->/\n/;D;
}
/^<[?!][^>]*>/{
H;x;s/\n//;s/>.*$/>/;p;bb
}
/^<\/[^>]*>/{
H;x;s/\n//;s/>.*$/>/;s/^    //;p;bb
}
/^<[^>]*\/>/{
H;x;s/\n//;s/>.*$/>/;p;bb
}
/^<[^>]*[^\/]>/{
H;x;s/\n//;s/>.*$/>/;p;s/^/ /;bb
}
/]*>//;ba
}

Hrmp, tabs seem to be garbled... You can copy-waste from here instead: XML indenting with sed(1)