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Asked: 2026-05-12T18:01:47+00:00

We have a 120MB XML file that we want to view. Opening it in

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We have a 120MB XML file that we want to view. Opening it in IE brings my machine to a crawl. I guess IE is loading the whole file into memory.

Is there a tool to view this in a faster manner? Ideally a Windows GUI based tool. Would be nice if you could drill down through the data by collapsing/uncollapsing elements.

Textpad works but the data isn’t formatted in a hierarchical manner. Ie: displays data as:

<TagA><TagB id="a"><TagC>abc</TagC></TagB></TagA>

instead of: 

<TagA>
      <TagB id="a">
            <TagC>abc</TagC>
      </TagB>
</TagA>
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  1. Editorial Team

    You say you already use TextPad, so there’s a plugin for Textpad called XmlTidy which will reformat the XML into a indented layout. Very handy. You can find it on the Textpad extensions page.

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