xml2js-expat

node-xml2js-expat

Description

Simple XML to JavaScript object converter. Uses node-expat. Install with npm :) See the tests for examples until docs are written. Note: If you're looking for a full DOM parser, you probably want JSDom.

Simple usage

var sys = require('sys'),
    fs = require('fs'),
    xml2js = require('xml2js-expat');

var parser = new xml2js.Parser(function(result, error) {
    if (!error) {
        console.log(sys.inspect(result));
    }
    else {
        console.error(error);
    }
    console.log('Done.');
});
fs.readFile(__dirname + '/foo.xml', function(err, data) {
    if (parser.parseString(data)) {
      console.log('xml2js: successfully parsed file.');
    }
    else {
      console.error('xml2js: parse error: "%s"', parser.getError());
    }
});

The Parser object has an event, that can be suscribed to with

parser.on('end', function (result, error) {});
// or
parser.addListener('end', function (result, error) {});

The Parser object supports the following encodings, that can be specified as the first parameter, in which case the callback should be the second. (Each argument is optional.)

• UTF-8
• UTF-16
• ISO-8859-1
• US-ASCII

For example:

var parser = new xml2js.Parser('UTF-8', function(result, error) {});

or

var parser = new xml2js.Parser('UTF-8');
parser.on('end', function (result, error) {});