# XML pretty printing?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xml-pretty-printing/51577>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 3, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xml-pretty-printing/51577 "2006-01-03T20:15:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_McMahon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@Chris\_McMahon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_McMahon)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xml-pretty-printing/51577/1 "2006-01-03T20:15:03Z")

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Hi…

Is there something in Ruby that will make XML look nice on STDOUT?

-Chris

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**Author:** ![Chris\_McMahon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@Chris\_McMahon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_McMahon)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xml-pretty-printing/51577/2 "2006-01-03T20:42:57Z")

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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Chris McMahon wrote:

> Hi…
> 
> Is there something in Ruby that will make XML look nice on STDOUT?
> 
> -Chris

puts doc.pretty

-a

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**Author:** ![Chris\_McMahon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@Chris\_McMahon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_McMahon)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xml-pretty-printing/51577/3 "2006-01-03T20:46:26Z")

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Chris McMahon wrote:

> Hi…
> 
> Is there something in Ruby that will make XML look nice on STDOUT?

REXML has a options for printing with nice indentation.

[http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rexml/rdoc/index.html](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rexml/rdoc/index.html)

James

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**Author:** ![Chris\_McMahon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@Chris\_McMahon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_McMahon)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xml-pretty-printing/51577/4 "2006-01-03T21:31:11Z")

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the “pretty” method comes from where?