andrewpurkett/xml_builder

Elixir library for generating xml

XML Builder

Overview

An Elixir library for building xml.

Each xml node is structured as a tuple of name, attributes map and content/list:

{name, attrs, content | list}

Installation

Add dependency to your project's mix.exs

def deps do
  [{:xml_builder, "~> 0.0.6"}]
end

Examples

A simple element

Like <person id="12345">Josh</person>, would look like:

{:person, %{id: 12345}, "Josh"} |> XmlBuilder.generate

An element with child elements

Like <person id="12345"><first>Josh</first><last>Nussbaum</last></person>

{:person, %{id: 12345}, [{:first, nil, "Josh"}, {:last, nil, "Nussbaum"}]} |> XmlBuilder.generate

Convenience Functions

For more readability, you can use XmlBuilder's methods instead of creating tuples manually.

XmlBuilder.doc(:person, "Josh")

Outputs

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<person>Josh</person>

Building up an element

An element can be built using multiple calls to the element function

import XmlBuilder

def person(id, first, last) do
  element(:person, %{id: id}, [
    element(:first, first),
    element(:last, last)
  ])
end

iex> [person(123, "Steve", "Jobs"),
      person(456, "Steve", "Wozniak")] |> generate

Outputs

<person id="123">
  <first>Steve</first>
  <last>Jobs</last>
</person>"
<person id="456">
  <first>Steve</first>
  <last>Wozniak</last>
</person>"

Using keyed lists

The previous example can be simplified using a keyed list

import XmlBuilder

def person(id, first, last) do
  element(:person, %{id: id}, first: first,
                              last: last)
end

iex> person(123, "Josh", "Nussbaum") |> generate
"<person id=\"123\"><first>Josh</first><last>Nussbaum</last></person>"