Paste your XML into a browser-based XML formatter and it indents the elements into a clean, nested layout that is easy to read. The formatting runs on your device, so a SOAP response, a config or a feed that contains business data is never uploaded while you make it readable.
XML that arrives from an API or a system is often a single long line with no indentation, which hides the nesting that gives the document meaning. A formatter parses the XML and re-emits it with each level of elements indented, so parents, children and attributes line up visually. That turns an impenetrable string into something you can actually scan and debug.
Because a formatter has to parse the document before it can indent it, it will fail on malformed XML, which is a quick way to catch an unclosed tag or a stray character. The layout it produces is identical XML with only whitespace changed, so the meaning is untouched. Since real XML often carries invoices, feeds or integration data, doing this locally keeps that content on your machine.
No. Only whitespace and indentation change. The elements, attributes and values are untouched.
Yes. Because it parses the document first, malformed XML like an unclosed tag is flagged rather than formatted.
No. Formatting runs entirely in your browser.