README.md

Libxmljs

LibXML bindings for node.js

var libxmljs = require("libxmljs");
var xml =  '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' +
           '<root>' +
               '<child foo="bar">' +
                   '<grandchild baz="fizbuzz">grandchild content</grandchild>' +
               '</child>' +
               '<sibling>with content!</sibling>' +
           '</root>';

var xmlDoc = libxmljs.parseXml(xml);

// xpath queries
var gchild = xmlDoc.get('//grandchild');

console.log(gchild.text());  // prints "grandchild content"

var children = xmlDoc.root().childNodes();
var child = children[0];

console.log(child.attr('foo').value()); // prints "bar"

CDATA Example:

var libxml = require('libxmljs');

var doc = libxml.Document();
var elem = doc.node('name1');
var newChild = libxml.Element(doc, 'new-child');
elem.addChild(newChild);

var child1 = elem.node('child1');
var child2 = elem.node('child2', 'second');
var newChild = libxml.Element(doc, 'new-child');
var name2 = elem.node('name2');
name2.addChild(newChild);
child2.cdata('<h1>cdata test</h1>').cdata('<p>It\'s worked</p>').cdata('<hr/>All done');

console.log('Document with CDATA: %s', doc.toString());

Basics

• Docs - http://github.com/polotek/libxmljs/wiki
• Mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/libxmljs

API and Examples

Check out the wiki http://github.com/polotek/libxmljs/wiki

Requirements

• libxml2

You will need have the libxml2 library installed and also the libxml2-devel (libxml2-dev on debian systems) package. This comes with the xml2-config utility that is needed for compiling. This command must be in your path.

Installation

npm

npm install libxmljs

source

To build with node waf:

node-gyp configure
node-gyp build

Alternatively, run make.

tests

npm test