Sublime Text: Automatically pretty format JSON and/or XML

I love the ability to quickly extend functionality in Sublime Text. For a while now I've been wanting a quick formatter for chunks of JSON/XML, so here's how I got it up and running on my Sublime Text 2.

Downloads

You'll need to download these files from my github repo:

• prettify_json.py
• tidy_xml.py

Installation

To install these files, you'll have to move them to the right place first.

• Open up Sublime Text (I'm using v2.0.2 at time of writing)
• Click on "Preferences" in the menu
• Click on "Browse Packages..."
• Open the "User" folder
• Move prettify_json.py and tidy_xml.py there
• Check if "Main.sublime-menu" also exists in that folder
• Open it in Sublime Text and paste in the following. If there is already some text in there, please merge them carefully. It shouldn't be too hard.

	[
	{
	"caption":"Selection",
	"children":[
	{
	"caption":"-"
	},
	{
	"caption":"Format",
	"children":[
	{
	"caption":"JSON",
	"command":"prettify_json"
	},
	{
	"caption":"XML",
	"command":"tidy_xml"
	}
	],
	"id":"format"
	}
	],
	"id":"selection"
	}
	]

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Now you should have to add it into the menu for easy access.

Update 19/05/15

Updated links to github raw source files. Fixes the issue where people were using "save files as" from this page and getting "greyed out menus".

Sources

• Formatting JSON and XML with Sublime Text — Yellow Duck
• Formatting XML in Sublime Text 2 (using xmllint)