prettify-xml

Why

Pretty xml output is necessary for debugging xml-based communications and other operations involving XML

What

It is a simple command-line application formatting XML files written in Python

Usage

xml-formatter -i sample.xml -o formatted_test.xml

Installation

Production Build

pip install xml-formatter

Dev Build

Linux

Run with one of the follwing:

bash install.sh
./install.sh
sh install.sh

Windows

Double click on install.bat or run

install.bat

Usage

python .\xml-format.py -i .\sample.xml -o formatted_test.xml

Register a shell command

The section is about registering shell commands using the Click library. Maybe you are curious, about crafting your own OS? Go for it! I do it and it is a lot of fun :)

The best way to have a system wide executable command on both, Windows and Linux systems is to use setuputools.

There is a description in the click package about how to do it

In a nutshell, the setup.py file has to follow a certain pattern, e.g.

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name='prettify_xml',
    version='0.4.3',
    packages=find_packages(),
    include_package_data=True,
    install_requires=[
        'Click',
    ],
    entry_points={
        'console_scripts': [
            'formatter = prettify_xml.formatter:format',
        ],
    },
)

Then, you can run on Windows:

python -m venv venv 
venv/Scripts/activate
pip install --editable .

And on Linux you can run:

python -m venv venv 
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --editable .

Then, test the application with:

xml-formatter -i sample.xml -o formatted_test.xml