broken in node 0.8.8 about node-xml2json

[c4milo]

What result are you expecting? I'm getting the same result in previous versions of xml2json and nodejs. The reason is that the parser doesn't know how to treat that object, it could be handled as an attribute or as an element value. You can give the parser a hint by changing your object like:

{ foo: {$t: 'bar'} };

[ttezel]

Yeah that's what I've been using so far with this library. I was hoping for a cleaner way to handle regular Object -> XML conversion, because in order to use this library I need to transform all my Objects before converting them to XML. Is there no cleaner way to do this?

[c4milo]

How do you think that cleaner way would be?

[ttezel]

why not like this:

{ 
  foo: { 
    '$attr': 'attributes go here',  
    bar: 'baz' 
  }
}

that way objects without attributes don't require any extra work.

[c4milo]

What is the xml that you would expect as output for

{ foo: 'bar' }

[ttezel]

<foo>bar</foo>

[c4milo]

json2xml parser was designed to get along with xml2json. As I said above, there is no way for the parser to know that

 { foo: 'bar' }

should be translated to

<foo>bar</foo>

For that purpose you need to hint the json2xml parser using this form instead:

{ foo: {$t: 'bar'} };

which I consider compatible with xml2json and cleaner than

{ 
  foo: { 
    '$attr': 'attributes go here',  
    bar: 'baz' 
  }
}

That said, I'll close this issue and considerer it invalid unless you have a better proposal to disambiguate the json string and at the same time get along with the xml2json parser.

[c4milo]

BTW, this parser behaves like you want: https://gist.github.com/3738875