To format the XML file in the browser, apply an XSL stylesheet. Otherwise, it will simply show the XML tags, which is great for moving the data but not for viewing it. To generate this XSL stylesheet, use the CODE= option on the ODS MARKUP statement. To apply the XSL style sheet, modify the default tagset event to include this association.

proc template;
  define tagset tagsets.test;
    parent=tagsets.default;

    define event code_stylesheet_link;

       putq "<LINK REL=""STYLESHEET"" HREF=" url " />" NL /if
exists(url);
    end;

    define event doc;
    start:
      put "<?xml version=""1.0""";
      putq " encoding=" encoding;
      put "?>" NL NL;
      put '<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="formatting.xsl"?>' ;
      put "<odsxml>" NL;
    finish:
      put "</odsxml>" NL;
    end;

  end;
run;

ods markup file='temp.xml'
           code='formatting.xsl'
           tagset=tagsets.test;
   proc print data=sashelp.class;
   run;
ods markup close;


ods markup close;

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