How to append Carriage Return in the end of each tag of xml file

Purpose

Purpose of this web log is to give a solution to the above mentioned title and also this is a frequently occurring question in SDN XI forum.

Introduction

This is a frequently occurring question these days in SDN XI forums, How to append a carriage return after some place and after end of tag of xml or some string. So I tried to give solution in generic way b y writing a simple UDF.

Here is the input structure I am using and treating this as and input to the UDF as xmlString.

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Output we want

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UDF for this

public String AddNewLineinEndofXMLTag(String xmlString,Container container){

//write your code here

String res = “”;

int flag = 0;

for(int i = 0;i

{

if(xmlString.charAt ==’<')

{

flag = 1;

res = res + xmlString.charAt ;

}

else

{

if(xmlString.charAt ==’>’)

{

flag = 0;

res = res +xmlString.charAt + “\n”;

}

else

{

res = res +xmlString.charAt ;

}

}

}

return res;

}

I hope, it will help many people to solve their purpose. You can also customized it and use it with some other requirements as well as with similar kind of scenarios.