fast-xml-parser

Validate XML, Parse XML to JS Object, or Build XML from JS Object without C/C++ based libraries and no callback.

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Main Features

• Validate XML data syntactically
• Parse XML to JS Object
• Build XML from JS Object
• Works with node packages, in browser, and in CLI (press try me button above for demo)
• Faster than any pure JS implementation.
• It can handle big files (tested up to 100mb).
• Controlled parsing using various options
• XML Entities, HTML entities, and DOCTYPE entites are supported.
• unpaired tags (Eg <br> in HTML), stop nodes (Eg <script> in HTML) are supported.
• You can restore almost same XML from JSON
• Supports comments
• It can preserve Order of tags in JS object
• You can control if a single tag should be parsed into array.
• Supports parsing of PI (Processing Instruction) tags with XML declaration tags
• And many more other features.

How to use

To use as package dependency $ npm install fast-xml-parser or $ yarn add fast-xml-parser

To use as system command $ npm install fast-xml-parser -g

To use it on a webpage include it from a CDN

Example

As CLI command

$ fxparser some.xml

In a node js project

const { XMLParser, XMLBuilder, XMLValidator} = require("../src/fxp");

const parser = new XMLParser();
let jObj = parser.parse(XMLdata);

const builder = new XMLBuilder();
const xmlContent = builder.build(jObj);

In a HTML page

<script src="path/to/fxp.min.js"></script>
:
<script>
  const parser = new fxparser.XMLParser();
  parser.parse(xmlContent);
</script>

Check lib folder for different browser bundles

Bundle Name	Size
fxbuilder.min.js	5.2K
fxparser.js	50K
fxparser.min.js	17K
fxp.min.js	22K
fxvalidator.min.js	5.7K

Documents

v3

• documents

v4

1. GettingStarted.md
2. XML Parser
3. XML Builder
4. XML Validator
5. Entites
6. HTML Document Parsing
7. PI Tag processing

Performance

XML Parser

Large files

XML Builder

negative means error

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License

• MIT License