As far as XML parsing is concerned, which is the best node module, that I can use for XML parsing?
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You can try xml2js. It's a simple XML to JavaScript object converter. It gets your XML converted to a JS object so that you can access its content with ease.
Here are some other options:
- libxmljs
- xml-stream
- xmldoc
- cheerio – implements a subset of core jQuery for XML (and HTML)
I have used xml2js and it has worked fine for me. The rest you might have to try out for yourself.
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Rafael Xavier
libxmljs allows traversing the xml with commands like
.find(), really useful.
esengineer
xml-stream worked for me very well. It's especially convenient when receiving XML data from a remote server.
rainabba
xml2js has worked very nicely for me
matthewmatician
xml-stream doesn't work well with windows. Use xml-flow! github.com/matthewmatician/xml-flow
fullStackChris
For what it's worth xml-js is very nice too. It has methods for XML to JS and vice versa, as well as XML to JSON and vice versa.
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This answer concerns developers for Windows. You want to pick an XML parsing module that does NOT depend on node-expat. Node-expat requires node-gyp and node-gyp requires you to install Visual Studio on your machine. If your machine is a Windows Server, you definitely don't want to install Visual Studio on it.
So, which XML parsing module to pick?
Save yourself a lot of trouble and use either xml2js or xmldoc. They depend on sax.js which is a pure Javascript solution that doesn't require node-gyp.
Both libxmljs and xml-stream require node-gyp. Don't pick these unless you already have Visual Studio on your machine installed or you don't mind going down that road.
Update 2015-10-24: it seems somebody found a solution to use node-gyp on Windows without installing VS: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/629#issuecomment-138276692
answered Jan 6, 2014 at 9:31
Christiaan Westerbeek
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Christiaan Westerbeek
@rainabba That's why I wrote: This answer concerns developers for Windows. On Windows VS is required.
shanks
@rainabba I wish quoting the first sentence of the node-gyp git repo makes it all okay. You clearly have not been plagued with node-gyp issues on window.
Nuno Furtado
wish i read this before trying to use xml-stream, couple of hours lost on trying to get node-gyp to work
Num Lock
If your machine is a Windows Server, you definitely don't want to install Visual Studio on it. Can anyone explain this statement?
ThomasRedstone
Visual Studio is a fairly heavy weight development tool, you don't usually want to install (and license) development tools, on production servers.
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