Re: Xml indent problem

Well, XSLT could be used, with a stylesheet that has its xsl:output directive set to indent (and possibly additional implementation-specific settings to say how much indentation to use; Xalan defaults to indenting by 0, for historical reasons). Or you could hand-code a stylesheet to track nesting depth and accomplish the same thing.

But I submit that you probably don't really want to do this. Changing the indentation of XML risks changing the _MEANING_ of the XML, since the indentation becomes part of the document's content.

What I would recommend, if you really want a tree view of your XML, is a real XML viewer. There are many Java implementations thereof available; it's quite easy for a Java hacker to make the standard Java tree views run against a DOM back-end.
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