@axel669/sanic-xml

sanic-xml

A high brow, fast xml parsing library.

Installation

With NPM/Yarn/PNPM

pnpm i @axel669/sanic-xml

In Browser (no installs)

import sanicXML from "https://esm.sh/@axel669/sanicXML"

Core API (Available in all JS environments)

These functions are part of the default export and use the web standard objects that are available in browsers, node (18+), and Cloudflare workers.

parse(xml)

(String) -> object|Error Parses an xml string synchronously, and returns either an object or an error with information about where the parsing failed.

parseStream(stream)

(Stream) -> Promise<object|Error> Parses a stream that outputs xml returning the same thing as parse.

toString(obj[, options])

(Object[, Object]) -> String Converts an XML Object to a string in memory.

toStream(obj[, options])

(Object[, Object]) -> Generator<string> Converts an XMLObject into a generator that outputs each line of the xml.

Node-spcific API

parseFile(filename)

(String) -> Promise<object|Error> Parses a file by reading the file as a stream and parsing the stream.

toFile(filename, obj[, opt])

(String, XMLObject[, Object]) -> void Converts an XMLObject into xml and writes it to a file.

Usage

import sanicXML from "@axel669/sanic-xml"

const data = sanicXML.parse(`
<tag>
    <nested>some value</nested>
</tag>
`)
console.log( sanicXML.toString(data) )

console.log(
    await sanicXML.parseURL(
        "https://boardgamegeek.com/xmlapi//boardgame/69?stats=1"
    )
)