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    Formatting XML in vi

Using xmllint

You can format XML in vi using xmllint
:%!xmllint "%" --format

Default indentation is 2 spaces. You can change that by assigning
a value to the XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable. To do that without
leaving vi,
:let $XMLLINT_INDENT="    "

Then just run the same command as before.
Using tidy

If you have tidy installed, you can use it instead of xmllint
:% !tidy -q --input-xml true --indent yes --indent-spaces 4 %