How to pretty print XML in ServiceNow

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Sometimes it's helpful to pretty print certain entities like JSON objects or XML. For JSON objects, luckily, we have JSNO.stringify(yourVar, null, 2), which nicely outputs the JSON object.

For XML in ServiceNow we can use the XMLDocument class as follows to achieve the same thing:

var xmlString = '<root><child><subchild>value</subchild></child></root>';
var xmlDoc = new XMLDocument(xmlString);
gs.info('\n' + xmlDoc.toIndentedString());
 
// Output:
// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>
//     <child>
//         <subchild>value</subchild>
//     </child>
// </root>