Proper XML formatting when viewing log file contents.

Question

I am trying to read some logs through a Linux terminal which contain some XML, (the entire log is not XML, but some of it's contents is). Is there any text editors, add-ons or scripts which will attempt to format the the contents that is XML to make it easier to read. I dont need it to save the new formatting, just display it for easy reading.

Thanks!

Answer 1

you could try something like this pretty print script for vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2130

Answer 2

In vim, you can filter [parts of] your file through any external command. In this case you can try xmllint --format.