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Package description
The xmldom npm package is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. It allows users to parse XML data into a DOM tree structure and serialize DOM trees back into XML. This package is particularly useful for server-side applications where DOM manipulation is needed without a browser environment.
Parsing XML to DOM
This feature allows you to parse a string of XML into a DOM tree, enabling programmatic access and manipulation of the structure and content.
const { DOMParser } = require('xmldom');
const xmlString = '<root>Hello World</root>';
const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(xmlString, 'text/xml');
console.log(doc.documentElement.nodeName); // 'root'Serializing DOM to XML
This feature enables you to take a DOM tree and serialize it back into a string of XML, useful for outputting modified XML data.
const { XMLSerializer } = require('xmldom');
const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString('<root>Hello World</root>', 'text/xml');
const xmlString = new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(doc);
console.log(xmlString); // '<root>Hello World</root>'libxmljs is a native library for parsing and manipulating XML. It offers faster performance due to its native implementation but requires compilation, which can be a downside compared to the pure JavaScript implementation of xmldom.
cheerio is primarily used for web scraping and server-side manipulation of HTML. While it can handle XML and offers a jQuery-like syntax for manipulation, it's more tailored towards HTML content. Compared to xmldom, cheerio might be more user-friendly for those familiar with jQuery but less strict in terms of XML standards compliance.
Changelog
0.1.31
The patch versions (v0.1.29 - v0.1.31) that have been released on the v0.1.x branch, to reflect the changed maintainers, are branched off from v0.1.27 so they don't include the breaking changes introduced in xmldom-alpha@v0.1.28:
After the last commit to the original repository https://github.com/jindw/xmldom on the 9th of May 2017, the first commit to https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom is from the 19th of December 2019. The fork has been announced in the original repository on the 2nd of March 2020.
The versions listed below have been published to one or both of the following packages:
It is currently not planned to continue publishing the xmldom-alpha package.
The new maintainers did not invest time to understand changes that led to the last xmldom version 0.1.27 published by the original maintainer, but consider it the basis for their work.
A timeline of all the changes that happened from that version until 0.3.0 is available in https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/62. Any related questions should be asked there.
FAQs
A pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module.
The npm package xmldom receives a total of 979,796 weekly downloads. As such, xmldom popularity was classified as popular.
We found that xmldom demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 8 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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