'Pretty Prints' an XML field. This can be an expensive operation and you should usually do this after filtering your data (at the end of your query) This will prevent data that will be filtered out from being formatted. If the field does not contain valid XML, the unmodified input value is stored in the output field. If no field is specified the @rawstring will be formatted.

Function Traits: FieldComputationFunction, Transformation

ParameterTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
asstringoptional  The name of the field to store the output in.
field[a]stringrequired@rawstring The name of the field to format.
stepnumberoptional2 The indentation in number of characters.
strictbooleanoptionalfalse If set to true only valid XML input produce a value in the output field. By default invalid XML is copied to the output field unmodified.
widthnumberoptional80 The width (in number of characters) to fit the output input.

[a] The argument name field can be omitted.

The parameter name for field can be omitted; the following forms are equivalent:

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xml:prettyPrint("@rawstring")

and:

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xml:prettyPrint(field="@rawstring")

Format XML in the @rawstring field after filtering the data.

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#type=SOAP
| account=123
| xml:prettyPrint()

Format XML in the field field payload to a max line length of 100 and indent by 4 spaces.

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formattedXml := xml:prettyPrint(field=payload, step=4, width=100)

Only copy valid XML to the output field by setting strict=true. Here the field formattedXml will not be created for events with invalid XML in message.

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formattedXml := xml:prettyPrint(field=message, strict=true)