xml2js

Parses xml and converts xml to and from JavaScript objects.

This library is distributed under the MIT license, its source and full documentation can be found at www.npmjs.com/package/xml2js 

Executed

Server-side.

Details

var xml2js = require('xml2js');

This module converts xml to a JavaScript object. It can also convert that object to a JSON string, build xml from an object and has a wide variety of other options. See the documentation linked to above for more information.

Example

This example converts xml to a JavaScript object.

function(params, credentials) {
    var r;
    var xml2js = require('xml2js');
    var parser = new xml2js.Parser();
    var xml = "<people><person><name>Tim</name><age>34</age></person><person><name>Leo</name><age>33</age></person></people>";
    parser.parseString(xml, function (err, result) {
        r = result;
    });
    return r;
}

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 174,
    "result": {
        "people": {
            "person": [{
                "name": ["Tim"],
                "age": ["34"]
            }, {
                "name": ["Leo"],
                "age": ["33"]
            }]
        }
    }
}

Arrays

In the example above you can see the that child nodes have been placed in arrays, this is the default behaviour. Set explicitArray: false to only put child nodes into arrays if there is more than one.

function(params, credentials) {
    var r;
    var xml2js = require('xml2js');
    var parser = new xml2js.Parser({
        explicitArray: false
    });
    var xml = "<people><person><name>Tim</name><age>34</age></person><person><name>Leo</name><age>33</age></person></people>";
    parser.parseString(xml, function(err, result) {
        r = result;
    });
    return r;
}

Returns

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 15,
    "result": {
        "people": {
            "person": [{
                "name": "Tim",
                "age": "34"
            }, {
                "name": "Leo",
                "age": "33"
            }]
        }
    }
}