2026-06-09 · 5 min read · Rahul Chitturi
- xml
- enterprise
Greenfield APIs are JSON. Production reality still includes SOAP gateways, SAML metadata, and Android resources in XML. Formatting transforms an unreadable line into a navigable tree.
What to look for
Diff formatted XML from test vs production to isolate drift quickly.
- Duplicate xmlns declarations
- Unexpected CDATA sections
- Mismatched closing tags
- Character encoding in the XML declaration