Pretty printing Confluence HTML

Question

We often use the Command Line Interface to download a page, edit it in a Linux text editor and upload again. For some kinds of editing, that's just much easier.

The machine-generated HTML that comes out of Confluence 4 is remarkably editor unfriendly, with run-on lines and no indentation for lists or tables.

Does anyone have a pretty printer for Confluence HTML?  The standard Linux program tidy(1) barfs on the <ac:> tags.

Jimmi p · Answer

I use online tool such as https://jsonformatter.org/html-pretty-print

David at David Simpson Apps · Answer

The storage format is XML based with a custom namespace.

Really, you need to

* get a hold of the schema
* wrap the content in a new root element with the namespacing specified
* parse in tidy with namespacing enabled