simple-xml-dom

simple-xml-dom is a thin wrapper around DOMParser and XMLSerializer that makes parsing and serializing XML more pleasant. It depends on xmldom in node, and native implementations in the browser.


Install

`` sh
$ npm install simple-xml-dom
`
note: xmldom is not installed alongside simple-xml-dom

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#### Basic
The available methods are parse and serialize.

`js
var xml = require('simple-xml-dom')

// Parse
var dom = xml.parse('world')
dom.documentElement.textContent
> 'world'

// Serialize
dom.documentElement.textContent = 'dexter morgan'
xml.serialize(dom)
> 'dexter morgan'
`

#### A more modular approach
Sometimes you only need to parse or serialize, and in these cases it makes sense to only require a single method.

`js
var parse = require('simple-xml-dom/parse')
var serialize = require('simple-xml-dom/serialize')

serialize(parse('world'))
> 'world'
`

#### Format correction
XMLSerialize collapses the whitespace surrounding declarations, so the format method exists to restore these characters.

`js
var xml = require('simple-xml-dom')
var format = require('simple-xml-dom/format')

var source = '\r\nworld'

// Whitespace collapsed
xml.serialize(xml.parse(source))
> 'world'

// Whitespace restored
format(xml.serialize(xml.parse(source)), source)
> '\r\nworld'
`

The second argument is optional. If present, whitespace from source will be adopted by the serialize` output’s declarations. If not, a new-line character will be inserted after every declaration.

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MIT