Re: wrapping xml

[Ted Zlatanov]

On 19 May 2006, brakjoller@gmail.com wrote:

> rahed <rahed@e-last-minute.com> writes:
>
>> I opened an xml file in emacs 22.0. The xml is not formatted being
>> one-liner. I tried to find something in sgml or nxml mode to pretty wrap
>> the code but didn't succeed. Is something simple available?
>
> I wondered the same thing a while ago and did not bother to find out
> how it could be done. Instead I wrote a keyboard macro that did
> something like this:
>
> 1. Search for "<"
> 2. Back up one character
> 3. Press return to move the rest of the line down
> 4. Press Tab to make Emacs indent the line
>
> Save macro. Execute, execute again...

You can just replace "<" with "^M<" and then reindent the region.  The
^M is produced by C-q ENTER.

Ted