Elixml

Elixml is going to be an xml lib for Elixir that is easy to and enable you to

• parse xml files (kinda works)
• query xml
• super basic implementation of searching
• xpath (not started)
• namespace support (not implemented)
• export to file/text (basic impl works)
• compose documents
  • possible with using maps
  • dsl would be nice (not implemented)

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed by adding elixml to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:elixml, github: "mlankenau/elixml"}
  ]
end

Usage

Parse an XML file

mydoc =
  File.read!("my_file.xml")
  |> Elixml.parse

# will return the root element like
# %{name: "my_root_element", children: [...], attributes: [...]}

Find elements

Elixml.find(mydoc, "some_element")

# will return the list of elements found

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/elixml.