Current version: 0.0.1
exile is a Rust library for reading and writing XML.
The goal is to provide a useful abstraction over XML with DOM-like structs. The state of the library is 'pre-alpha' See the GitHub issues and milestones for work planned.
Parsing XML looks like this.
```rust
let xml = r#"
let doc = exile::parse(xml).unwrap(); for child in doc.root().children() { println!("element name: {}", child.name); if let Some(attribute) = child.attributes.map().get("name") { println!("name attribute: {}", attribute); } } ```
Authoring XML looks like this.
rust
use exile::{Document, Element, Node};
let mut root = Element::from_name("my_root");
// TODO - improve the interface
root.attributes.mut_map().insert("foo".into(), "bar".into());
let mut child = Element::from_name("my_child");
child.nodes.push(Node::Text("Hello World!".into()));
root.nodes.push(Node::Element(child));
let doc = Document::from_root(root);
println!("{}", doc.to_string());
The program above prints:
xml
<my_root foo="bar">
<my_child>Hello World!</my_child>
</my_root>
Development is setup as a cargo workspace with three crates.
xdoc is the root dependency and contains structs that represent an XML documentxtest contains test files and helper functions for loading them.exile is the public-facing crate and includes the parser.Current status is 'pre-mvp'. v0.0.0 will be able to parse basic XML documents into DOM-like structures and serialize them back.
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