There are a lot of ways to pretty print XML, but I have yet to find one using a ColdFusion function.
This is a common question, but again I want to do this within ColdFusion.
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A:
see top answer of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/376373/pretty-printing-xml-with-javascript. Try it with XmlTransform(). If it doesn't work, pick a Java XSLT engine like http://saxon.sourceforge.net/ as suggested
Henry
2010-10-29 01:39:40
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A:
A quick search on http://cflib.org turned up xmlIndent().
<pre>#xmlIndent(xmlString)#</pre>
Ben Doom
2010-10-29 02:02:23
It's says the stuff at cflib.org is 'open source', but this can mean different things to different people. Is there a license they use, or is it free as in free for both commercial and and non-commercial use?
Skolem
2010-10-29 21:43:59
My understanding is that it is free as in both beer and speech. If you are concerned, you can contact the author from the UDF page.
Ben Doom
2010-10-31 17:26:45
A:
I use a Java solution XOM for this purpose, so you'd need to have its jar in your classpath for it work. Following answer in original Java code:
<cfset xmlString = [your xml here]/>
<cfscript>
encoding = "ISO-8859-1";
parser = createObject("java", "nu.xom.Builder").init();
doc = parser.build(xmlString);
out = createObject("java", "java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream").init();
Serializer serializer = new Serializer(out, encoding);
// bunch of options
serializer.setIndent(4);
serializer.setMaxLength(64);
serializer.setPreserveBaseURI(true);
serializer.write(doc);
serializer.flush();
</cfscript>
<cfoutput>#out.toString(encoding)#</cfoutput>
orangepips
2010-10-29 02:36:05