How to re-indent text according to type

Sometimes, I get some unformatted text, like HTML or XML that has all
the newlines removed.

To make it easier to read, I'll sometimes add newlines and pair
up adjacent tags, using something like:

:%s/>/>^M/g
:%s/<\([^>]\+\)>\n\([^>]\+\)<\/\1>/<\1>\2<\\\1>

But then I have an unindented file like:

<taga>
<line>
<tagb>xxx</tagb>
<tagc>yyy</tagc>
</line>
</taga>

Where if I had typed it in by hand, with auto indent and syntax set, I'd
get:

<taga>
<line>
<tagb>xxx</tagb>
<tagc>yyy</tagc>
</line>
</taga>

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To get the above, for very short examples, I can just
join 1+2nd line, then hit enter with cursor before "<line>", join nxt lines
and hit enter and so on.

A __kludgy__ way for longer methods is to put the original in a file,
then in a non-paste aware TTY running vim, I can put all of the code
in my cut buffer, and paste it into the TTY window. It then acts like
it would if I'd typed it in, as it is unaware of the paste-mode (play
with paste/nopaste mode).

How can I just reformat the file as if I'd just typed it all in by hand
without making use of a TTY window running vim and pasting all the text?

Is there a format-type command as there is for text, where I can set
'tw' (:set tw=72), select a paragraph or whole page, and use:

:gqap to reflow the text.

Thanks MUCH, if there is an easy command to do this!












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