A tiny, super fast, namespace aware sax-style XML parser written in plain JavaScript.
- (optional) entity decoding and attribute parsing
- (optional) namespace aware
- element / attribute normalization in namespaced mode
- tiny (
2.6Kb
minified + gzipped) - pretty damn fast
var {
Parser
} = require('saxen');
var parser = new Parser();
// enable namespace parsing: element prefixes will
// automatically adjusted to the ones configured here
// elements in other namespaces will still be processed
parser.ns({
'http://foo': 'foo',
'http://bar': 'bar'
});
parser.on('openTag', function(elementName, attrGetter, decodeEntities, selfClosing, getContext) {
elementName;
// with prefix, i.e. foo:blub
var attrs = attrGetter();
// { 'bar:aa': 'A', ... }
});
parser.parse('<blub xmlns="http://foo" xmlns:bar="http://bar" bar:aa="A" />');
We support the following parse hooks:
openTag(elementName, attrGetter, decodeEntities, selfClosing, contextGetter)
closeTag(elementName, decodeEntities, selfClosing, contextGetter)
error(err, contextGetter)
warn(warning, contextGetter)
text(value, decodeEntities, contextGetter)
cdata(value, contextGetter)
comment(value, decodeEntities, contextGetter)
attention(str, decodeEntities, contextGetter)
question(str, contextGetter)
In contrast to error
, warn
receives recoverable errors, such as malformed attributes.
In proxy mode, openTag
and closeTag
a view of the current element replaces the raw element name. In addition element attributes are not passed as a getter to openTag
. Instead, they get exposed via the element.attrs
:
openTag(element, decodeEntities, selfClosing, contextGetter)
closeTag(element, selfClosing, contextGetter)
In namespace mode, the parser will adjust tag and attribute namespace prefixes before
passing the elements name to openTag
or closeTag
. To do that, you need to
configure default prefixes for wellknown namespaces:
parser.ns({
'http://foo': 'foo',
'http://bar': 'bar'
});
To skip the adjustment and still process namespace information:
parser.ns();
In this mode, the first argument passed to openTag
and closeTag
is an object that exposes more internal XML parse state. This needs to be explicity enabled by instantiating the parser with { proxy: true }
.
// instantiate parser with proxy=true
var parser = new Parser({ proxy: true });
parser.ns({
'http://foo-ns': 'foo'
});
parser.on('openTag', function(el, decodeEntities, selfClosing, getContext) {
el.originalName; // root
el.name; // foo:root
el.attrs; // { 'xmlns:foo': ..., id: '1' }
el.ns; // { xmlns: 'foo', foo: 'foo', foo$uri: 'http://foo-ns' }
});
parser.parse('<root xmlns:foo="http://foo-ns" id="1" />')
Proxy mode comes with a performance penelty of roughly five percent.
Caution! For performance reasons the exposed element is a simple view into the current parser state. Because of that, it will change with the parser advancing and cannot be cached. If you would like to retain a persistent copy of the values, create a shallow clone:
parser.on('openTag', function(el) {
var copy = Object.assign({}, el);
// copy, ready to keep around
});
/saxen/
lacks some features known in other XML parsers such as sax-js:
- no support for parsing loose documents, such as arbitrary HTML snippets
- no support for text trimming
- no automatic entity decoding
- no automatic attribute parsing
...and that is ok ❤.
We build on the awesome work done by easysax.
/saxen/
is named after Sachsen, a federal state of Germany. So geht sächsisch!
MIT