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Convert a big blob of XML into pretty printed XML in Ruby/Rails
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# Oh dear god this was a pain to figure out! REXML had parsing issues, so instead
# I parse with Nokogiri, then dump it out and feed it to REXML to use the pretty printer.
nokogiri_doc = Nokogiri::XML xml_string
rexml_doc = REXML::Document.new nokogiri_doc.to_xml
formatter = REXML::Formatters::Pretty.new(2)
@doc = ""
formatter.write(rexml_doc, @doc)
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