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Open source XML library written in TypeScript
Implements a SAX parser that exposes these methods from the ContentHandler
interface:
Class DOMBuilder
implements the ContentHandler
interface and builds a DOM tree from an XML document.
npm install typesxml
import { ContentHandler } from "./ContentHandler";
import { DOMBuilder } from "./DOMBuilder";
import { SAXParser } from "./SAXParser";
import { XMLDocument } from "./XMLDocument";
import { XMLElement } from "./XMLElement";
export class Test {
constructor() {
try {
let contentHandler: ContentHandler = new DOMBuilder();
let xmlParser = new SAXParser();
xmlParser.setContentHandler(contentHandler);
// build the document from a file
xmlParser.parseFile("test.xml");
let doc: XMLDocument = (contentHandler as DOMBuilder).getDocument();
let root: XMLElement = doc.getRoot();
console.log(doc.toString());
// build the document again, this time from a string
xmlParser.parseString(doc.toString());
let newDoc = (contentHandler as DOMBuilder).getDocument();
console.log(newDoc.toString());
} catch (error: any) {
if (error instanceof Error) {
console.log(error.message);
} else {
console.log(error);
}
}
}
}
new Test();
FAQs
Open source XML library written in TypeScript
The npm package typesxml receives a total of 600 weekly downloads. As such, typesxml popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that typesxml demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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