Prettify XML with Vim

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File under quick and dirty, but works for me.

The issue is that I have an utterly unreadable XML file in front of me. Not only is there no indentation, I don’t even have any line breaks.

To format it for readability, first insert line breaks

:%s/>r</g

Then load and apply the XML indent file

:set filetype=xml
:filetype indent on

And apply it

gg=G

There are probably better ways of achieving the same end, but as a quick fix, this works for me.

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