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Exmerl
A wrapper for the xmerl_* suite of modules, though at the moment all you can do is parse and use xpaths to select nodes.
Usage
Currently it is possible to parse XML from a file or string using either from_file/1,2
,
from_string/1,2
or parse/1,2
. They all accept an optional Keyword
list as the second argument. Possible options can be found in the erlang
documentation for the xmerl_* modules.
iex(1)> # you can pass parse/1,2 a filename or an xml string
iex(2)> Exmerl.parse("test.xml")
{{:xmlElement, :root, :root, [], {:xmlNamespace,...
...
...
iex(3)> {doc, rest} = Exmerl.from_string("""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><rootnode>Test</rootnode>""")
{{:xmlElement, :root, :root, [], {:xmlNamespace,...
...
...
You can traverse the document by using xpath selectors, and the
Exmerl.XPath.find function. find/2,3,4,5
takes an XML document (or a
{doc, rest}
pair as shown above), an xpath selector, and optional
node
, parent
, and a Keyword list of options. find
will accept a
{doc,rest}
pair to make it easier to pipe the output of parse
into
find
:
iex(1)> Exmerl.parse("test.xml") |>
...(1)> Exmerl.XPath.find("//some-node-name")
{[{:xmlElement, ...
...
...
In this case, instead of returning [result_term]
, it will return
{[result_term], [rest]}
.