xml-decoder

Yet another xml parser (transformations included)

Project based on ktemelkov/node-xml2json, but is about only parsing. The main feature is ability to transform target object to remove xml structures bloating.

Parsing features:

• every complex object in hierarhy has '@tag' field with tag name.
• xml tag value placed in '@value' field
• Single valued tags assigned as fileds to parent object
• attributes axis are merged or placed to '@attrs' field
• two or more sibling tags with same name treats as array of objects(with that tags data) (example in __tests__/fixtures/simple-list)

It does not parse the following elements:

• CDATA sections (*)
• Processing instructions
• XML declarations
• Entity declarations
• Comments

Installation

$ npm install xml-decoder

Usage

var xmldecoder = require('xml-decoder');

var xml = "<foo attr=\"value\">bar</foo>";
console.log(xml)

var obj = xmldecoder(xml, {mergeAttrs: true});
console.log(JSON.stringify(obj));

Example xml:

<root>
  <items count="2">
    <item>1</item>
    <item>2</item>
  </items>
  <value attr="a"/>
  <value attr="b"/>
  <node_a>x</node_a>
  <node_b>y</node_b>
  <item>3</item>
</root>

Configurated options:

var options = {
	mergeAttrs: true,
	toArray: ['root/items'],
	asArray: ['root/item'],
	renameTag: {
		'root/value':'values',
		'root/node_a':'nodes',
		'root/node_b':'nodes',
	}
}

Result object:

{
  "root": {
    "@tag": "root",
    "items": [
      { "@tag": "item", "@value": 1 },
      { "@tag": "item", "@value": 2 }
    ],
    "values": [
      { "@tag": "value", "attr": "a" },
      { "@tag": "value", "attr": "b" }
    ],
    "nodes": [ "x", "y" ],
    "item": [ 3 ]
  }
}

Options

• mergeAttrs, bool (default: felse) - flag to merge attrs with single valued child tags in common structure or not
• asArray, array of full paths in xml - force array for tag value
• toArray, array of full paths in xml - attributes of target tag ignored, target tag becomes array, child tags become array values
• rename, key-value of full path to new field name - rename (former renameTag extended to attrs)
• typecast, key-value of full path to type - override auto type casting

  typecast: false, // disable auto typecasting

  typecast: [
      "path/to/tag": "number",
      'path/to/@attr': "string" // attributes prefixed with @
  ]