RSS Feed, sitemap and XML formatter tool

 

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From a RSS or XML website address  (Maximum 1024kb)

From RSS or XML text (Maximum 1024kb)  
 
Add line feeds and indents
Unchecking this removes the formatting and indents
 

 

  

Reformated RSS or XML

  

  

  

About this tool

XML, the computer readable format used to store RSS feed information, is normally stored without carriage returns and indents that would make it easy to read by us humans.  The reason for this is to minimize the size of files for transmitting over the Internet.  If you put these llines and indents back in, then you can read them.   This is useful for seeing the structure of RSS feeds and other XML documents, especially if you are trying to solve an issue, or look at the format they are stored in. 

 

Let's give you an example:

 

Here is the text from an RSS feed XML file, in its normal format:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://www.MyCakeShop.com/news.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><title>My Cake Shop news</title><link>http://www.MyCakeShop.com/news.xml</link><description>The latest news from My Cake Shop</description><copyright>Copyright My Cake Shop 2016 All rights reserved</copyright><language>en-US</language><ttl>60</ttl><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2016 19:08:21 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title>Independence Day muffins</title><description>Limited edition 4th of July special muffins in store now. Hurry, before they are all gone</description><link>http://www.MyCakeShop.com/Muffins.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8e40288371b744a1bfda81cff434a6b4</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:04:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New scary Halloween donuts oozing with goo</title><description>Really tasty green, red and blue donuts until the 31st.  Get yours before they vanish</description><link>http://www.MyCakeShop.com/Halloween.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8114337c10f047c0beaf9c8063f97f0d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:44:35 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>

 

and here's the same feed file after the XML has been reformatted:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <channel> <atom:link href="http://www.MyCakeShop.com/news.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <title>My Cake Shop news</title> <link>http://www.MyCakeShop.com/news.xml</link> <description>The latest news from My Cake Shop</description> <copyright>Copyright My Cake Shop 2016 All rights reserved</copyright> <language>en-US</language> <ttl>60</ttl> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:04:28 GMT</lastBuildDate> <item> <title>New scary Halloween donuts oozing with goo</title> <description>Really tasty green, red and blue donuts until the 31st.  Get yours before they vanish</description> <link>http://www.MyCakeShop.com/Halloween.html</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">c154d69419534702a0574f106f62655d</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:44:35 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Independence Day muffins</title> <description>Limited edition 4th of July special muffins in store now. Hurry, before they are all gone</description> <link>http://www.MyCakeShop.com/Muffins.html</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">174e518a5cf54662999605c3e76c5518</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 01 July 2016 11:04:05 GMT</pubDate> </item> </channel> </rss>

 

In the formatted version, illustrated above, you can easily see the title, link and the different news items.   If you want to create you own RSS feeds in a text file, using Windows Notepad or another text editor, then starting with this is a lot easier than with the original file above.

  

You may also have a sitemap.xml file on your website as Google anad Bing Webmaster tools like them.  This is another file in XML format and you can use the free tool able to make them human readable as well.