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Aparna
Aparna

Reputation: 845

Hw to get xml attribute value in nodejs

I am using xml2js

 var fs = require('fs'),
 xml2js = require('xml2js');
 var parser = new xml2js.Parser();
 fs.readFile(path, function(err, data) {
         parser.parseString(data, function (err, result) {
     console.dir(result['QCapsule']['AlarmLog'][0]['AlarmLogItem'][0].AlarmCode);                              });
 });

My xml file looks like

<QCapsule id="1" name="ALARMS">
 ....
 .....
<AlarmLog itemCount="1">
<AlarmLogItem listIndex="0">
  <EntryType>1</EntryType>
  <AlarmCode>180</AlarmCode>
   ....
   ....

The output for 

  result['QCapsule']['AlarmLog'][0]['AlarmLogItem'][0].AlarmCode

says [ '180' ]. Is there a way to get the vale without the [] without using string functions. Or is there a better xml parser for nodejs.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6001

Answers (1)

Terry Lennox
Terry Lennox

Reputation: 30725

You can try:

var path = 'testxml.xml';
var fs = require('fs');
var xml2js = require('xml2js');
var parser = new xml2js.Parser();

var xml = fs.readFileSync(path);

parser.parseString(xml, function (err, result) {
    if (err) {
        console.error('xml2js.parseString: Error occurred: ', err);
    } else {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2));
        console.log('AlarmCode: ', result.QCapsule.AlarmLog[0].AlarmLogItem[0].AlarmCode[0]); 
    }
});

Change the code like so and you don't need those annoying [0] array indexing operators.

var path = 'testxml.xml';
var fs = require('fs');
var xml2js = require('xml2js');
var parser = new xml2js.Parser({explicitArray: false});

var xml = fs.readFileSync(path);

parser.parseString(xml, function (err, result) {
    if (err) {
        console.error('xml2js.parseString: Error occurred: ', err);
    } else {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2));
        console.log('AlarmCode: ', result.QCapsule.AlarmLog.AlarmLogItem[0].AlarmCode);
    }
});

Bear in mind of course that if you do have multiple child elements in the XML data, you'll need to use the indexing operator.

There are some other useful options in the Options section of the xml2js.

And I think xml2js is a pretty nice XML parser, it does a lot!

I tested with Xml that looks like this:

<QCapsule id="1" name="ALARMS">
    <AlarmLog itemCount="2">
        <AlarmLogItem listIndex="0">
            <EntryType>1</EntryType>
            <AlarmCode>180</AlarmCode>
        </AlarmLogItem>
        <AlarmLogItem listIndex="1">
            <EntryType>1</EntryType>
            <AlarmCode>101</AlarmCode>
        </AlarmLogItem>
    </AlarmLog>
</QCapsule>

Also useful to have a print all alarms function: 

var printAllAlarms = function(alarmLogItems) {

    console.log(`PrintAllAlarms: Total alarm(s): ${alarmLogItems.length}`);
    alarmLogItems.forEach((alarmLog) => { ;
        console.log(`AlarmLogItem: EntryType: ${alarmLog.EntryType} AlarmCode: ${alarmLog.AlarmCode}`);
    });
}

printAllAlarms(result.QCapsule.AlarmLog.AlarmLogItem);

Upvotes: 2

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