sax-stream

[Transform stream][transform-stream] for parsing large XML files. It is using SAX module internally. Emits objects:
one object per each selected node.

Installation

$ npm install sax-stream

Usage

Use as any transform stream: pipe request or file stream to it, pipe it downstream to another
transform/writeable stream or handle data event.

``javascript
var saxStream = require('sax-stream');


request('http://blog.npmjs.org/rss')
.pipe(saxStream({
strict: true,
tag: 'item'
})
.on('data', function(item) {
console.log(item);
});

`

API

Create passing options object:

- tag - name of the tag to select objects from XML file, an Array of tag names can be used - when multiple tags are specified stream pushes { tag, record } tuples
- highWaterMark - size of internal transform stream buffer - defaults to 350 objects
- strict - default to false, if true makes sax parser to accept valid XML only
- trim, normalize, lowercase, xmlns, position, strictEntities, noscript` - passed to [sax] parser

License

MIT

[transform-stream]: http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_class_stream_transform
[sax]: https://github.com/isaacs/sax-js#arguments