فشرده‌ساز XML

// Minify XML by parsing and re-serializing (strips formatting)
const raw = `<root>
  <item id="1">
    <!-- note -->
    <name>Test</name>
  </item>
</root>`

const parser = new DOMParser()
const doc = parser.parseFromString(raw, 'application/xml')

// Remove comment nodes
const walker = doc.createTreeWalker(doc, NodeFilter.SHOW_COMMENT)
const comments = []
while (walker.nextNode()) comments.push(walker.currentNode)
comments.forEach(c => c.parentNode.removeChild(c))

const minified = new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(doc)
// → "<root><item id=\"1\"><name>Test</name></item></root>"

from lxml import etree

xml = """<root>
  <item id="1">
    <!-- note -->
    <name>Test</name>
  </item>
</root>"""

tree = etree.fromstring(xml.encode())

# Remove comments
for comment in tree.iter(etree.Comment):
    comment.getparent().remove(comment)

# Serialize without pretty-print (minified)
result = etree.tostring(tree, xml_declaration=False).decode()
# → '<root><item id="1"><name>Test</name></item></root>'

# With xml.etree (stdlib, no lxml needed)
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
root = ET.fromstring(xml)
ET.indent(root, space='')  # Python 3.9+
print(ET.tostring(root, encoding='unicode'))

package main

import (
    "encoding/xml"
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func minifyXML(input string) (string, error) {
    decoder := xml.NewDecoder(strings.NewReader(input))
    var out strings.Builder
    encoder := xml.NewEncoder(&out)
    // No indentation = minified output
    for {
        tok, err := decoder.Token()
        if err != nil {
            break
        }
        // Skip comments
        if _, ok := tok.(xml.Comment); ok {
            continue
        }
        // Skip whitespace-only char data
        if cd, ok := tok.(xml.CharData); ok {
            if strings.TrimSpace(string(cd)) == "" {
                continue
            }
        }
        encoder.EncodeToken(tok)
    }
    encoder.Flush()
    return out.String(), nil
}
// minifyXML("<a>\n  <b>1</b>\n</a>") → "<a><b>1</b></a>"

# Minify XML with xmllint (part of libxml2)
xmllint --noblanks input.xml > minified.xml

# Minify from stdin
echo '<root>
  <item>hello</item>
</root>' | xmllint --noblanks -
# → <?xml version="1.0"?><root><item>hello</item></root>

# Strip comments too (combine with sed or xmlstarlet)
xmlstarlet ed -d '//comment()' input.xml | xmllint --noblanks -

# Check size reduction
echo "Before: $(wc -c < input.xml) bytes"
echo "After:  $(xmllint --noblanks input.xml | wc -c) bytes"