XML Minifier
Make XML lighter by minifying it for production use. Paste code, minify instantly, and copy the compact output for deployment. Works well for testing.
XML Minifier
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What this does
So you have got XML headed for production, an API payload, a feed, or a config, and you want it as light as possible. This minifies it. Paste your XML, hit Minify, and the gaps between the elements disappear, leaving a compact single block.
How to use it
- Paste your XML into the box.
- Hit Minify.
- Copy the minified XML with the Copy button.
How it works
The minifying is handled by vkbeautify, a small library for tidying and compacting XML, JSON, CSS, and SQL. Its xmlmin function strips out the whitespace sitting between your elements and removes comments, collapsing the document down to the tags and their content. This happens entirely in your browser, so the XML you paste stays on your device.
Why it is safe, and when to look twice
The whitespace between elements, the newlines and indentation that make XML readable, is there for people, not machines. A parser does not need it, so removing it for transport or storage is a straightforward saving, and on a large document it adds up nicely.
One thing to be aware of: while the spacing between elements is usually safe to drop, whitespace inside an element's text content can be meaningful, and some XML explicitly asks for it to be preserved. For ordinary element heavy XML this is rarely an issue, but if your document depends on exact spacing inside its text, check the result before you rely on it.
Questions people ask
Does minifying change my XML data?
No. It removes the whitespace between elements and the comments. The elements, attributes, and their values are kept.
Are comments removed?
Yes. The minifier strips comments by default as part of making the document smaller.
Is it safe to remove all that whitespace?
For typical XML, yes, since the spacing between elements is not significant. Be a little careful only if your text content relies on exact spacing.
Is my XML uploaded?
No. It runs in your browser, so nothing you paste leaves your machine.
References
- Vadim Kiryukhin. vkBeautify: beautify and minify XML, JSON, CSS and SQL. https://github.com/vkiryukhin/vkBeautify
- World Wide Web Consortium. Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0. https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/
Sugam Baskota is a senior software engineer and Computer Science graduate from UT Arlington, with interests in user scripts, browser extensions, developer tooling, and productivity systems. He spends time building practical utilities and extensions in the kinds of workflows Eon is designed to simplify. At Eon Tools, he reviews useful, password, and developer tools.