marcuslankenau
I feel kind of stuck with the absence of a proper xml library for Elixir. Currently I use SweetXML which was ok for me more or less to parse the xml content that I receive. But it doen’t feel natural to use.
Now I have to generate xml content as well. I have use cases like cutting nodes (with xpath) from one document, enriching that part with other data and generating a new document. I don’t feel like I can do that easily with SweetXML or floki (that I really like).
I put something together that almost covers what I need, have to continue on it. Maybe someone is interested in the project as well:
https://github.com/mlankenau/elixml
Marcus
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dimitarvp
Sadly no. I was looking for a way to replace values by my own user-supplied function – not by a hardcoded value (example: reverse the value).
I coded it myself through
xmerl’s streaming functions.BrightEyesDavid
Might this be useful?
OvermindDL1
Yeah it is for reading only, which is all I need (I’m eating old XML and converting to better formats). ^.^
Heh, they aren’t too bad, you haven’t used C libs.
dimitarvp
Shame. Seems I have to use one of the Erlang libraries then.
They are quite cryptic and manual and verbose.
mischov
No. Meeseeks doesn’t do modification of a document, just search.
dimitarvp
What about mutating the XML structure and writing it back to disk? Can it do that in combination with XPath?
OvermindDL1
I use Meeseeks for both HTML and XML parsing, it’s awesome for both. The CSS and XPath selectors are supported on both HTML and XML parsing in it.
It does require having Rust’s compiler toolchain installed though.
Cruz
Funny. I was about to embark on a little project that requires the parsing of a large XML file. Definitely great to see more efforts in this area!
While doing some research, I found Meeseeks:
https://github.com/mischov/meeseeks
@OvermindDL1 has recommended it in other post. Did you try it? If so, what was missing that you needed?
Thanks a lot
dimitarvp
Well, problem is, I have a work assignment and I am not looking at it through the eyes of an OSS contributor. I am looking for a ready-made solution.
I can file an issue alright, but offering a PR is highly unlikely at this point.
marcuslankenau
I agree. The documentation is very basic and only showing some use cases with examples.
For your specific question:
You could parse the XML and manipulate the maps/array structure and store it as XML again. Not very convenient. Or we could think about having a map that works like the find and change nodes.
Why not open an issue with your feature request in the Github project and I will take care. Or you can contribute to the project if you like.