Class Format

A formatter for outputting an XML document, with three pre-defined formats that can be further customized.

// Log an XML document with specified formatting options.
var xml = '<root><a><b>Text!</b><b>More text!</b></a></root>';
var document = XmlService.parse(xml);
var output = XmlService.getCompactFormat()
    .setLineSeparator('\n')
    .setEncoding('UTF-8')
    .setIndent('   ')
    .format(document);
Logger.log(output);

Methods

Method	Return type	Brief description
`format(document)`	`String`	Outputs the given `Document` as a formatted string.
`format(element)`	`String`	Outputs the given `Element` node as a formatted string.
`setEncoding(encoding)`	`Format`	Sets the character encoding that the formatter should use.
`setIndent(indent)`	`Format`	Sets the string used to indent child nodes relative to their parents.
`setLineSeparator(separator)`	`Format`	Sets the string to insert whenever the formatter would normally insert a line break.
`setOmitDeclaration(omitDeclaration)`	`Format`	Sets whether the formatter should omit the XML declaration, such as `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>`.
`setOmitEncoding(omitEncoding)`	`Format`	Sets whether the formatter should omit the encoding in the XML declaration, such as the encoding field in `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>`.

Detailed documentation

`format(document)`

Outputs the given Document as a formatted string.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`document`	`Document`	the document to format

Return

String — the formatted document

`format(element)`

Outputs the given Element node as a formatted string.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`element`	`Element`	the element to format

Return

String — the formatted element

`setEncoding(encoding)`

Sets the character encoding that the formatter should use. The encoding argument must be an accepted XML encoding like ISO-8859-1, US-ASCII, UTF-8, or UTF-16.

// Log an XML document with encoding that does not support certain special characters.
var xml = '<root><a><b>ಠ‿ಠ</b><b>ಠ‿ಠ</b></a></root>';
var document = XmlService.parse(xml);
var output = XmlService.getRawFormat()
    .setEncoding('ISO-8859-1')
    .format(document);
Logger.log(output);

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`encoding`	`String`	the encoding to use

Return

Format — the formatter, for chaining

`setIndent(indent)`

Sets the string used to indent child nodes relative to their parents. Setting an indent other than null will cause the formatter to insert a line break after every node.

// Log an XML document with each child node indented four spaces.
var xml = '<root><a><b>Text!</b><b>More text!</b></a></root>';
var document = XmlService.parse(xml);
var output = XmlService.getCompactFormat()
    .setIndent('    ')
    .format(document);
Logger.log(output);

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`indent`	`String`	the indent to use

Return

Format — the formatter, for chaining

`setLineSeparator(separator)`

Sets the string to insert whenever the formatter would normally insert a line break. The three pre-defined formatters have different conditions under which they insert a line break. The default line separator is \r\n.

// Log an XML document with several spaces and a pipe character in place of line breaks.
var xml = '<root><a><b>Text!</b><b>More text!</b></a></root>';
var document = XmlService.parse(xml);
var output = XmlService.getRawFormat()
    .setLineSeparator(' | ')
    .format(document);
Logger.log(output);

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`separator`	`String`	the separator to use

Return

Format — the formatter, for chaining

`setOmitDeclaration(omitDeclaration)`

Sets whether the formatter should omit the XML declaration, such as <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`omitDeclaration`	`Boolean`	`true` to omit the XML declaration; `false` to include it

Return

Format — the formatter, for chaining

`setOmitEncoding(omitEncoding)`

Sets whether the formatter should omit the encoding in the XML declaration, such as the encoding field in <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`omitEncoding`	`Boolean`	`true` to omit the encoding in the XML declaration; `false` to include it

Return

Format — the formatter, for chaining