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xmleclipseeclipse-plugin
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tvl

Reputation: 3988

Eclipse formatter for XML like Java

In Eclipse I need to format XML like I do on Java with Formatter when CtrlShiftF pressed.

The use of CtrlShiftF on XML does not provide the results that I want.

Is there a tool like: "Window→Java→Code Style→Formatter" to do the job?

The: "Window→XML→XML Files→Editor" and "Window→Editors→Text Editors" lacks a lot of features, like "Window→Java→Code Style→Formatter→Edit→Indentation→Align fields in columns" so ther XML result will be like:

android:id              = "@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width    = "wrap_content"
android:layout_height   = "wrap_content"

I don't care if it's an external plug-in or a lib. I use Eclipse 4.2.0 Juno for Android development.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2567

Answers (2)

Odys
Odys

Reputation: 9090

Markup languages cannot be formatted as Java code. Despite that, you can assign the default html editor with the .xml file type as follows:

  1. Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> File Associations

  2. Select the .xml from the top box and assign it to the Html editor from the bottom box. Also you can set it as default.

Doing this will enable markup highlighting for all .xml files and you can use the default CtrlShiftF shortcut to format your xml file.

This formatting can be parametrized from General->Editors->Structured Text Editors. There are no many options there but it will do the job. Also, you can try using other formatters like the php one (I think it requires PDT to be installed to eclipse).

If you are only interesting in understanding the structure of an xml file, than just formatting it:

Hope that helps

Upvotes: 2

Chris Gerken
Chris Gerken

Reputation: 16392

There should be a menu option on the editor's context menu Source -> Format

Upvotes: 0

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