elementtree

node-elementtree
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node-elementtree is a Node.js XML parser and serializer based upon the Python ElementTree v1.3 module.

Installation
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$ npm install elementtree

Using the library
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For the usage refer to the Python ElementTree library documentation - http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm#usage.

Supported XPath expressions in find, findall and findtext methods are listed on http://effbot.org/zone/element-xpath.htm.

Example 1 – Creating An XML Document
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This example shows how to build a valid XML document that can be published to
Atom Hopper. Atom Hopper is used internally as a bridge from products all the
way to collecting revenue, called “Usage.” MaaS and other products send similar
events to it every time user performs an action on a resource
(e.g. creates,updates or deletes). Below is an example of leveraging the API
to create a new XML document.

``javascript
var et = require('elementtree');
var XML = et.XML;
var ElementTree = et.ElementTree;
var element = et.Element;
var subElement = et.SubElement;

var date, root, tenantId, serviceName, eventType, usageId, dataCenter, region,
checks, resourceId, category, startTime, resourceName, etree, xml;

date = new Date();

root = element('entry');
root.set('xmlns', 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom');

tenantId = subElement(root, 'TenantId');
tenantId.text = '12345';

serviceName = subElement(root, 'ServiceName');
serviceName.text = 'MaaS';

resourceId = subElement(root, 'ResourceID');
resourceId.text = 'enAAAA';

usageId = subElement(root, 'UsageID');
usageId.text = '550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000';

eventType = subElement(root, 'EventType');
eventType.text = 'create';

category = subElement(root, 'category');
category.set('term', 'monitoring.entity.create');

dataCenter = subElement(root, 'DataCenter');
dataCenter.text = 'global';

region = subElement(root, 'Region');
region.text = 'global';

startTime = subElement(root, 'StartTime');
startTime.text = date;

resourceName = subElement(root, 'ResourceName');
resourceName.text = 'entity';

etree = new ElementTree(root);
xml = etree.write({'xml_declaration': false});
console.log(xml);
`

As you can see, both et.Element and et.SubElement are factory methods which
return a new instance of Element and SubElement class, respectively.
When you create a new element (tag) you can use set method to set an attribute.
To set the tag value, assign a value to the .text attribute.

This example would output a document that looks like this:

`xml

12345
MaaS
enAAAA
550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
create

global
global
Sun Apr 29 2012 16:37:32 GMT-0700 (PDT)
entity

`

Example 2 – Parsing An XML Document
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This example shows how to parse an XML document and use simple XPath selectors.
For demonstration purposes, we will use the XML document located at
https://gist.github.com/2554343.

Behind the scenes, node-elementtree uses Isaac’s sax library for parsing XML,
but the library has a concept of “parsers,” which means it’s pretty simple to
add support for a different parser.

`javascript
var fs = require('fs');

var et = require('elementtree');

var XML = et.XML;
var ElementTree = et.ElementTree;
var element = et.Element;
var subElement = et.SubElement;

var data, etree;

data = fs.readFileSync('document.xml').toString();
etree = et.parse(data);

console.log(etree.findall('./entry/TenantId').length); // 2
console.log(etree.findtext('./entry/ServiceName')); // MaaS
console.log(etree.findall('./entry/category')[0].get('term')); // monitoring.entity.create
console.log(etree.findall('*/category/[@term="monitoring.entity.update"]').length); // 1
``

Build status
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License
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node-elementtree is distributed under the Apache license.