Put this python file in your path to get the following:
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Command-line tool to validate and pretty-print XML.
Based on `pjson` but without the crap.
Usage::
$ echo '<bunk atr="hello">world</bunk>' | pxml
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<bunk atr="hello">
world
</bunk>
Original Author: Igor Guerrero <igfgt1@gmail.com>, 2012
Contributor: Matthew Gill, 2012
"""
import xml.dom.minidom
import sys
from pygments import highlight
from pygments.formatters import TerminalFormatter
from pygments.lexers import XmlLexer
def format_xml_code(code):
"""
Parses XML and formats it
"""
x = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(code)
return x.toprettyxml()
def color_yo_shit(code):
"""
Calls pygments.highlight to color yo shit
"""
return highlight(code, XmlLexer(), TerminalFormatter())
if __name__ == '__main__':
code = format_xml_code(sys.stdin.read())
print color_yo_shit(code)The original can be found here (https://github.com/igorgue/pjson)

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