Autoformat pom.xml without using m2eclipse plugin

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Published on 2010-05-21T21:33:20Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 22:10 UTC
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I don't use the Eclipse maven plugin while developing in Eclipse.

I generate my Eclipse classpath externally using the following command:

mvn eclipse:eclipse

This has worked fine for quite some time and I am not inclined to add a maven plugin.

However, I would like to be able to "autoformat" my pom.xml file.

My pom.xml is not showing up as a "Source" file and therefore the contextual "Source" menu doesn't show up. Control-Shift-F doesn't work either.

Is there a way to do this without installing the m2eclipse plugin? Is there any other generic "XML Editor" plugin that can help with this?

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