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An evented streaming XML parser in JavaScript

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What is sax?

The sax npm package is a streaming XML parser that is designed for speed and simplicity. It follows the SAX parsing approach, which is an event-based model for parsing XML documents. This allows developers to handle different parts of the document as they are parsed without keeping the entire document in memory.

What are sax's main functionalities?

Parsing XML

This code demonstrates how to parse an XML string. It creates a new SAX parser, sets up an event listener for the 'opentag' event to log the name and attributes of each tag, and then writes an XML string to the parser.

const sax = require('sax'),
  parser = sax.parser(true);
parser.onopentag = function (node) {
  // node has attributes with string values
  console.log(node.name + ' - ' + JSON.stringify(node.attributes));
};
parser.write('<xml><tag attr="value">content</tag></xml>').close();

Stream Parsing

This code demonstrates how to parse XML from a file stream. It creates a SAX stream, sets up an event listener for the 'opentag' event, and then pipes a read stream from a file into the SAX stream.

const sax = require('sax'),
  fs = require('fs'),
  saxStream = sax.createStream(true);
saxStream.on('opentag', function (node) {
  console.log(node.name + ' - ' + JSON.stringify(node.attributes));
});
fs.createReadStream('file.xml').pipe(saxStream);

Error Handling

This code demonstrates how to handle errors during parsing. It sets up an error event listener on the SAX parser to handle any parsing errors.

const sax = require('sax'),
  parser = sax.parser(true);
parser.onerror = function (e) {
  // an error happened.
};
parser.write('<xml>this is some malformed xml</xml>').close();

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