I am running into issues when trying to use the DOMParser in my js code. In my code, I retrieve an xml file via xmlhttp.responseText soap response. I want to be able to ac
Not a direct answer, but depending on your application you could use JSX parser (used by React.js) https://github.com/RReverser/acorn-jsx
I used jsdom because it's got a ton of usage and is written by a prominent web hero - no promises that it's behavior perfectly matches your browser (or even that every browser's behavior is the same) but it worked for me:
const jsdom = require("jsdom")
const { JSDOM } = jsdom
global.DOMParser = new JSDOM().window.DOMParser
You can use a Node implementation of DOMParser, such as xmldom. This will allow you to access DOMParser outside of the browser. For example:
var DOMParser = require('xmldom').DOMParser;
var parser = new DOMParser();
var document = parser.parseFromString('Your XML String', 'text/xml');
var DOMParser = require('xmldom').DOMParser;
var doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(
'<xml xmlns="a" xmlns:c="./lite">\n'+
'\t<child>test</child>\n'+
'\t<child></child>\n'+
'\t<child/>\n'+
'</xml>'
,'text/xml');
A lot of browser functionalities, like DOM manipulations or XHR, are not available natively NodeJS because that is not a typical server task to access the DOM - you'll have to use an external library to do that.
DOM capacities depends a lot on the library, here's a quick comparisons of the main tools you can use:
jsdom: implements DOM level 4 which is the latest DOM standard, so everything that you can do on a modern browser, you can do it in jsdom
. It is the de-facto industry standard for doing browser stuff on Node, used by Mocha, Vue Test Utils, Webpack Prerender SPA Plugin, and many other:
const jsdom = require("jsdom");
const dom = new jsdom.JSDOM(`<!DOCTYPE html><p>Hello world</p>`);
dom.window.document.querySelector("p").textContent; // 'Hello world'
htmlparser2: same, but with enhanced performances and flexibility at the price of a more complex API:
const htmlparser = require("htmlparser2");
const parser = new htmlparser.Parser({
onopentag: (name, attrib) => {
if (name=='p') console.log('a paragraph element is opening');
}
}, {decodeEntities: true});
parser.write(`<!DOCTYPE html><p>Hello world</p>`);
parser.end();
// console output: 'a paragraph element is opening'
cheerio: implementation of jQuery based on HTML DOM parsing by htmlparser2
:
const cheerio = require('cheerio');
const $ = cheerio.load(`<!DOCTYPE html><p>Hello world</p>`);
$('p').text('Bye moon');
$.html(); // '<!DOCTYPE html><p>Bye moon</p>'
xmldom: fully implements the DOM level 2 and partially implements the DOM level 3. Works with HTML, and with XML also
dom-parser: regex-based DOM parser that implements a few DOM methods like getElementById
. Since parsing HTML with regular expressions is a very bad idea I wouldn't recommend this one for production.
There is no DOMParser
in node.js, that's a browser thing. You can try any of these modules though:
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules#wiki-parsers-xml