Simple XML to JavaScript object converter. Uses sax-js.
See the tests for examples until docs are written.
Note: If you're looking for a full DOM parser, you probably want JSDom.
Simplest way to install xml2js is to use npm, just npm install xml2js which will download xml2js and all dependencies.
var fs = require('fs'),
xml2js = require('xml2js');
var parser = new xml2js.Parser();
parser.addListener('end', function(result) {
console.dir(result);
console.log('Done.');
});
fs.readFile(__dirname + '/foo.xml', function(err, data) {
parser.parseString(data);
});
Apart from the default settings, there is a number of options that can be
specified for the parser. Options are specified by new Parser({optionName: value}). Possible options are:
explicitCharkey(default:false)trim(default:true): Trim the whitespace at the beginning and end of text nodes.normalize(default:true): Trim whitespaces inside text nodes.explicitRoot(default:false): Set this if you want to get the root node in the resulting object.emptyTag(default:undefined): what will the value of empty nodes be. Default is{}.
These default settings are for backward-compatibility (and might change in the
future). For the most 'clean' parsing, you should disable normalize and
trimming and enable explicitRoot.
The development requirements are handled by npm, you just need to install
them. We also have a number of unittests, they can be run using zap
directly from the project root.