Print the hierarchy of an XML document.

lsxmltree

#!/usr/bin/env node

/*
  Author: @cGuille <[email protected]>
  Usage: node lsxmltree <xml file path>

  The MIT License (MIT)

  Copyright (c) 2015 Guillaume Charmetant

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*/

var fs = require('fs');
var DOMParser = require('xmldom').DOMParser;
var args = process.argv.slice(2);
if (!args.length) {
  console.error('Missing argument: xml filepath.');
  process.exit(1);
}

var filepath = args.join(' ');
if (!fs.existsSync(filepath)) {
  console.error("No such file: '" + filepath + "'.");
  process.exit(1);
}

var xmlFileContent = fs.readFileSync(filepath);
if (!xmlFileContent) {
  console.error("Could not read content of '" + filepath + "'.");
  process.exit(1);
}

var parser = new DOMParser();
var dom = parser.parseFromString(xmlFileContent.toString());
var document = dom.documentElement

var branch = [];
function traverse(element) {
  if (!element.tagName) {
    return;
  }
  var attributes = attrStr(element.attributes)
  branch.push(element.tagName + (attributes.length ? '[' + attributes + ']' : ''));
  printBranch();
  for (var i = 0; i < element.childNodes.length; ++i) {
      traverse(element.childNodes.item(i));
  }
  branch.pop();
}
function printBranch() {
  console.log(branch.join('/'));
}
function attrStr(attrNodeList) {
  var strParts = [];
  var attrNode;

  for (var i = 0; i < attrNodeList.length; ++i) {
    attrNode = attrNodeList.item(i);
    strParts.push(attrNode.name + '=' + attrNode.value);
  }

  return strParts.join(',');
}

traverse(document);