rjsteen
XML Parsing, Building, and Validating
I have been looking at the available Elixir/Erlang libraries for working with XML and cannot seem to find something that can do everything Nokogiri (Ruby) does.
I have come down to sweet_xml for parsing xml and erlsom for validating xml. I could use xml_builder to build xml or even erlsom. I have not found a library other than erlsom that does all three- parsing, building and validating. I am also an Elixir newbie so I could be missing something.
What would you all suggest? Using a combination of libraries as mentioned above or is there something else out there I’m missing?
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kamidev
Yes, Meeseeks is very nice! I recently used it for a small scraper and it was faster and easier to use than anything else I looked at.
Note that it’s fast because it uses a NIF to wrap the Rust library html5ever. I installed Rust (using asdf), added Meeseeks to my deps and it just worked. But it’s good to be aware of the extra dependency.
OvermindDL1
If you don’t need validation and the XML can all fit in memory then the Meeseeks library has a FANSTATIC query interface into XML that puts anything else I’ve used yet to shame. 
chulkilee
Check out GitHub - chulkilee/ex_scems: A Sentinel Cloud EMS Web Services wrapper in Elixir · GitHub.
Basically I use SweetXml.transform_by/2 and then pass map into struct!/2.
I wrote it a while ago, so I may want to do it different way now though
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