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Is it possible to show the level of indentation of all elements in an XML file? The top level element should have indent level 1, all elements that are directly below the top level should have indent level 2, all elements that are part of elements on indent level 2 should have indent level 3, et cetera. I think this would be helpful in documenting the structure of an XML file.

Perhaps Oxygen already has an option to do just this, but I couldn't find such an option so far.

Hello,

It is not very clear what you mean by

level of indentation of all elements

.
From what you describe, it seems you want to know more the depth of each element (nesting level) rather than the indentation.
Unfortunately, we do not have some sort of indent counter for elements and there is not possible to have this displayed in the editor (for each element)

You could of course use an XPath to count the indent level, but this would mean you should manually run the XPath for each element.
The XPath could be something like: You can also notice the nesting of an element and its ancestors in the breadcrumb view, which is a bar presenting the element and all of his ancestors for quick navigation inside a document. The breadcrumb is available right beyond the tab bar in the editor.
But, as I specified, this only makes navigating between elements easier and presents a visual succession of the elements.

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Costin

Costin,

Thank you for your reply. Indeed, I should have used the term 'nesting level' instead of 'indentation level' !

I have seen that the 'Breadcrumb Navigation in Text Mode' was introduced in version 17.1 Unfortunately, I am still using version 16.1 . Well, I'll just have to wait for the installation of version 17.1.

Ewout