Formatting xml with xmllint

I keep forgetting how to format and indent xml from the command line. The tool xmllint does a fine job of doing just that, which has saved me numerous times whilst working with sports results. So. Much. Data.

Running

xmllint --format <file>

will re-format and re-indent the xml in the input file, and check it for various errors while doing it.

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