Formatting XML and JSON using Sublime Text

Posted 2020-09-01

Formatting XML and JSON using Sublime Text

Last week I was trying to make some changes to my WCF service and had to deal with some XML data. The problem was the XML was not nicely formatted and I had to highlight couple of missing pieces of information. Normally I would use Notepad++ but I though let‘s try doing it in?"Sublime Text".

If you are new to this editor you can read my?this?post which describes the basic steps to get started with Sublime Text. As a web developer we often have to deal with non formatted XML and JSON data. Sublime Text has a plugin?Indext XML?that you can use to format XML and JSON data. The plug-in is available in both ST2 & ST3.

Installing Plug-in

Open the editor and hit?Ctrl+Shift+P?to open?Command Palette.

Type"Install Package" and hit?Enter. Type?Indent XML.

Select the highlighted plug-in and click Enter. You should see the message that saying the plug-in has been installed successfully.

Restart the editor. At least I had to.

Formatting XML

Copy the non formatted XML

Hit?Ctrl + K + F.

You can also do it from the Menu option.

Formatting JSON

Hit?Ctrl + K + F.

You can also do it from the Menu option.

That‘s it for today. Happy Formatting !