Quick and easy way to Indent your DOM generated XML

[CubeE101]

I'll try to make this short, sweet, and to the point...

When you use Microsoft's Dom Object to create or modify XML on the fly, you tend to get an out put of 1 single continuous line of tags...

Instead of the nice and neat indented XML that is easier to read...

Here is a method (written with VB) to Indent your generated XML for you...

Function Indent(dom As DOMDocument) As DOMDocument
  Set Indent = IIf(dom.loadXML(Replace(dom.xml, "><", ">" & vbCrLf & "<")), dom, Nothing)
End Function

I came up with the idea after reading this article:

http://www.azureus.com/xml/art_prettyprinting_xml.htm

Though it is a vb function, it should be easily translated to any other language with a Replace function, and access to the MSXML dom objects...

Hope This Helps ;-)
-Josh


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