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Is there a program out there that can take a quasi-XML file and make it
user-friendly and easy to read? By quasi-XML I mean a plain text file
that is in the format below.

I know the time stamps messes up the format a bit. And these logs have
hundreds, thousands of lines. You can see why I'm looking for something
that can help me read them.

TIA.

15:52:46: [START] ===== Session Started 2006-09-19 15:52:46, UserRole
= leader

15:52:47: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="1" TS="128031691673686869"><Action
Type="Start"><Content Id="300016768"
AuthToken="1,1268871847,1158695466,9218,003E67312B B747CD94EFF1A15982C4FB"/></Action></Command></CommandList>

15:52:50: [RESPONSE]
<Response><Command Id="1" Status="Success"/><Result ActionType="Start"
CommandId="1" TS="128031691694557500"><Content CST="128031691676430000"
Id="300016768" Status="Opened"><Group Audio="" Id="1" Name="Main Room"
Owner="0" Type="Default"><Member Audio="" AudioNotified=""
AudioConnection="" AudioConnectionType="" AudioId="-1" Name="Unknown"
PhoneNum="" QA="" Speaking="" ConnQ="0" Emoticon="" Id="0"
JT="128031691676430000" Name="5000038" Pid="" Role="Leader" S="1"
Status="Added" Type="Data"/><Chat Id="2" Owner="0" S="0"
Status="Started"/><Recorder Id="3" S="1"
Status="Stopped"/><Presentation Id="17" S="1"
Status="Stopped"/><Presentation Id="18" S="1" Status="Stopped"/><AppS
Id="19" S="1" Status="Stopped"/><File Id="22" S="1"
Status="Stopped"/></Group></Content></Result></Response>

15:52:50: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="2"
TS="128031691709138553"><Destination ContentId="300016768"
GroupId="1"><Member Id="0"/></Destination><Action
Type="Get"/></Command></CommandList>

15:52:50: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="3"
TS="128031691709338845"><Destination ContentId="300016768"/><Action
Type="Get" Scope="Children"><Filter><Condition
Type="Group"/></Filter></Action></Command></CommandList>

15:52:51: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="4"
TS="128031691709438991"><Destination ContentId="300016768"
GroupId="1"/><Action Type="Get" Scope="Children"><Filter><Condition
Type="Presentation1"/></Filter></Action></Command></CommandList>

15:52:51: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="5"
TS="128031691709438991"><Destination ContentId="300016768"
GroupId="1"/><Action Type="Get" Scope="Children"><Filter><Condition
Type="Presentation2"/></Filter></Action></Command></CommandList>

15:52:51: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="6"
TS="128031691709438991"><Destination ContentId="300016768"
GroupId="1"/><Action Type="Get" Scope="Children"><Filter><Condition
Type="Presentation3"/></Filter></Action></Command></CommandList>

15:52:51: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="7"
TS="128031691709539137"><Destination ContentId="300016768"
GroupId="1"/><Action Type="Get" Scope="Children"><Filter><Condition
Type="Presentation4"/></Filter></Action></Command></CommandList>

15:52:51: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="8"
TS="128031691709539137"><Destination ContentId="300016768"
GroupId="1"/><Action Type="Get" Scope="Children"><Filter><Condition
Type="Presentation5"/></Filter></Action></Command></CommandList>

15:52:51: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="9"
TS="128031691709539137"><Destination ContentId="300016768"
GroupId="1"/><Action Type="Get" Scope="Children"><Filter><Condition
Type="Presentation6"/></Filter></Action></Command></CommandList>

15:52:51: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="11"
TS="128031691709639283"><Destination ContentId="300016768"
GroupId="1"/><Action Type="Start"
Notify="Group"><Presentation7/></Action></Command></CommandList>

15:52:51: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="12"
TS="128031691709639283"><Destination ContentId="300016768"
GroupId="1"/><Action Type="Start"
Notify="Group"><Note/></Action></Command></CommandList>

15:52:52: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="13"
TS="128031691709639283"><Destination ContentId="300016768"/><Action
Type="Get" Scope="Children"><Filter><Condition
Type="Audio"/></Filter></Action></Command></CommandList>

15:52:52: [COMMAND]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="14"
TS="128031691709939721"><Destination ContentId="300016768"/><Action
Type="Get"><Property Name="Door"/></Action></Command></CommandList>

wrote:

> Is there a program out there that can take a quasi-XML file and make it
> user-friendly and easy to read? By quasi-XML I mean a plain text file
> that is in the format below.

Use an AWK script. The following script works, I tested it.

BEGIN {
n=1
filename = "quasi_xml_dat_" n ".xml"
}

{
if (/^[0-9]*:/) {
if (n>0)
close(filename)
filename = "quasi_xml_dat_" ++n ".xml"
} else {
print $0 >> filename
}
}

The result you get is something like this:

> ls -l *xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 268 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_10.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 268 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_11.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 268 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_12.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 235 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_13.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 226 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_14.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 249 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_15.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 213 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_16.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 1 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_2.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 254 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_3.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 792 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_4.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 222 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_5.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 248 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_6.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 268 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_7.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 268 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_8.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 kahrs users 268 2006-11-11 19:52 quasi_xml_dat_9.xml

> cat quasi_xml_dat_10.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CommandList Id="1"><Command Id="7"
TS="128031691709539137"><Destination ContentId="300016768"
GroupId="1"/><Action Type="Get" Scope="Children"><Filter><Condition
Type="Presentation4"/></Filter></Action></Command></CommandList>

> I know the time stamps messes up the format a bit. And these logs have
> hundreds, thousands of lines. You can see why I'm looking for something
> that can help me read them.

Yes, the time stamps mess up the format.
The script will work for millions of lines.
Notice that the script is only about 80% of a
complete solution because some of your quasi-XML
section have no XML declaration header.