Description

This is a node.js module to transform XML into a JS object. It currently relies on the node-xml and ntest libraries, both of which are installed as git submodules in vendor/. I'm going to have to find a better way to deal with them.

Contributors

• Kyle Slattery
• Fabian Jakobs

Usage

Say you have the following XML you'd like to transform, in a string:

<root>
  <videos total="2">
    <video id="1" length="20">
      <title>Video 1</title>
    </video>
    <video>
      <title>Video 2</title>
    </video>
  </videos>
</root>

Just do the following:

var sys        = require('sys'),
    xml2object = require('./xml2object');
    
var xml        = "YOUR XML STRING";
var response   = xml2object.parseString(xml);

response.addCallback(function(obj) {
  
  // To output a simple value, just use as an object
  // Since there are 2 video elements under <videos>, it's stored as an array
  sys.puts(obj.root.videos.video[0].title) // outputs "Video 1"
  
  // attr(key) returns the value for attribute with name "key"
  sys.puts(obj.root.videos.attr("total")) // outputs "2"
  
  // attrs() returns an object of all attributes
  sys.puts(obj.root.videos.video[0].attrs().length); // outputs "20"
});

To do

1. Figure out better way to deal with module dependencies (node-xml and ntest)
2. Add support for prefixes in XML tags

License

Copyright (c) 2010 Kyle Slattery

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