Paste XML and press Minify to strip whitespace between tags, usually down to one line. Text, attributes, comments, CDATA and the XML declaration stay as written. Mixed content is left alone. Well-formedness is checked first, so a broken document is rejected with line and column. Nothing is uploaded.
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Minify XML collapses insignificant whitespace between tags into a compact document, usually one line, without touching text content, attributes, comments, CDATA or the XML declaration. Press Minify below; the sample is already compacted so you can see the result.
Only inter-tag whitespace is removed. A pretty-printed catalog with two-space indent typically shrinks 15 to 35 percent; already-compact SOAP bodies barely change. Mixed content and xml:space="preserve" regions are left alone, so a poem inside <pre> does not lose its line breaks.
If Minify is disabled and the status bar is red, the document is not well-formed: fix the reported line and column first. If a downstream system then rejects the compact form, it was depending on ignorable whitespace, which XML treats as insignificant between elements.
Minify before embedding XML in a log line, a message queue payload or a unit-test fixture, and after you have validated the document.
This page is a focused view of theXML Formatter, Validator & Pretty Print, which has the full set of options.
Only whitespace between tags. Text, attributes, comments and CDATA stay byte-for-byte.
Paste it and press Minify. Invalid XML is rejected with the first error's line and column.
Yes. The minifier is a tokenizer that only removes whitespace between tags.
No. Minifying runs in this tab.
Whitespace inside mixed content (text and child elements in the same parent) is left alone.
Yes. Press Format on this page, or open the full XML Formatter for indent options.