x2js

x2js

This is a library that converts between XML and JavaScript objects. The conversion is not necessarily lossless but it is very convenient.

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Integration

The code is all contained within the x2js.js file, so you can include it directly via a script tag. It will create window.X2JS, which is a constructor that can be used to create instances of the converter, providing an optional configuration object.

In a Node app, require("x2js") will give you the constructor that you can use the same way.

Loading via AMD-capable loaders (e.g. require.js) is also supported and works equivalently.

The xmldom package is a dependency but it is only used under Node, as in browsers the browser DOM is used.

Quick start

var x2js = new X2JS();
var document = x2js.xml2js(xml);

console.log(document.MyRootElement.ElementX[1].toString());

var xml = x2js.js2xml(document);
console.log(xml);

See the code within x2js.js for information about what configuration options you can pass. Exported functions are listed at the end of the file - there are only a few of them.

Automated tests

A set of QUnit test cases are part of the project and act as the primary usage examples.

Run karma start --single run to test with Chrome, Firefox and IE. Run node_modules\.bin\qunit-cli all_tests.js to test with the Node runtime. Run npm test to execute both sets of tests.

Travis CI uses npm travistest to run tests using Firefox via Karma and Node.