I have a XML that structure looks like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <parent> <kid> </kid> </parent> I wanna simply add few nodes inside parent node that it will become something like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <parent> <kid> </kid> <data> <data_kid_1>{ JSON OBJECT }</data_kid_1> <data_kid_2>false</data_kid_2> </data> </parent> I have tried to use XmlJs.xml2js() convert my XML to JavaScript and then add it in that way:
let jScriptXml['parent']['data'] = { 'data_kid_1': { JSON OBJECT } , 'data_kid_2': false }; followed by converting it back to XML using XmlJs.js2xml() but conversion do not convert signs like & or < to entity references and that cause errors in my app
Anyone have an idea how to add that nodes without breaking XML?
Not the most beautiful code in the world, but it does deliver, I think:
kids = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <parent> <kid> </kid> </parent>` xpath = require('xpath') , dom = require('xmldom').DOMParser; XMLSerializer = require('xmldom').XMLSerializer; serializer = new XMLSerializer(); family = new dom().parseFromString(kids); destination = xpath.select('//kid', family, true); data = family.createElement("data"); data.appendChild(family.createTextNode("\r\n\t "));//I added a few new lines, etc., just for presentation, but they're not strictly necessary kid1 = family.createElement("data_kid_1"); kid1.appendChild(family.createTextNode("{ JSON OBJECT }")); kid2 = family.createElement("data_kid_2"); kid2.appendChild(family.createTextNode("false")); data.appendChild(kid1); data.appendChild(family.createTextNode("\r\n\t ")); data.appendChild(kid2); data.appendChild(family.createTextNode("\r\n\t")); destination.parentNode.insertBefore(data, destination.nextSibling);//drop .nextSibling to actually insert before destination.parentNode.insertBefore(family.createTextNode("\r\n\t"), destination.nextSibling); console.info(serializer.serializeToString(family)) Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <parent> <kid> </kid> <data> <data_kid_1>{ JSON OBJECT }</data_kid_1> <data_kid_2>false</data_kid_2> </data> </parent> 
Or maybe there is a way to remove entity reference using XmlJs.js2xml(js_xml_data, options); with proper options setup. I tried to use sanitize: true but it does not work. Anyone has experience with using XmlJs?