Function xml2obj

packages/compiler/src/lib/lcp/api/xml2obj.ts:101–127

(xml: string)

}

export function xml2obj<T = any>(xml: string): T {
  const parser = new XMLParser({
    ignoreAttributes: false,
    attributeNamePrefix: "",
    parseTagValue: true,
    parseAttributeValue: false,
    processEntities: true,
    isArray: (name) => [TAG_VALUE, TAG_ARRAY, TAG_OBJECT].includes(name),
  });
  const parsed = parser.parse(xml);

  // The parser keeps the XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0"?>) under the
  // pseudo-tag "?xml". Skip it so that we always start the conversion at the
  // first real node (i.e. <object>, <array> or <value>).
  const withoutDeclaration = _.omit(parsed, "?xml");

  const rootTag = Object.keys(withoutDeclaration)[0];

  // fast-xml-parser treats every <object>, <array> and <value> element as an array
  // because we configured the `isArray` option above. This means even the root
  // element comes wrapped in an array. Unwrap it so that the recursive
  // conversion logic receives the actual node object instead of an array –
  // otherwise no children will be found and we would return an empty result.
  const rootNode = _.castArray(withoutDeclaration[rootTag])[0];

  return _fromGenericNode(rootTag, rootNode);
}