xmltojs

xmlToJs.js

// My attempt to make David Walsh's xmlToJson function work
// with libxmltojs. This reproduces the document tree but not
// the text inside in each node. There is a lot of data in these
// documents we are not using... I think we should stick to the 
// xpath queries.

// Changes XML to JSON
function xmlToJson (xml) {
  // Create the return object
  var obj = {};

  if (xml.childNodes().length > 0) {
    xml.childNodes().forEach(function (item) {
      var nodeName = item.name();
      if (typeof(obj[nodeName]) == "undefined") {
        obj[nodeName] = xmlToJson(item);
      } else {
        if (typeof(obj[nodeName].push) == "undefined") {
          var old = obj[nodeName];
          obj[nodeName] = [];
          obj[nodeName].push(old);
        }
        obj[nodeName].push(xmlToJson(item));
      }
    });
  } else {
    if (obj.text) {
      return obj.text();
    }
  }

  return obj;
};

module.exports = xmlToJson;