Question

I’m want to build a w3c xml node in groovy :

def CAR_RECORDS = '''<records>
             <car name='HSV Maloo' make='Holden' year='2006'/>
             <car name='P50' make='Peel' year='1962'/>
             <car name='Royale' make='Bugatti' year='1931'/>
           </records>
         '''

        def carRecords = new XmlParser().parseText(CAR_RECORDS)

but all I get using the MarkupBuilder is a groovy.util.Node ( carRecords is a groovy.util.Node ).
Is there an elegant way (that doesn’t require standard java xml coding) to do this?

What I’m looking for is something that will look like this:

def carRecords = new W3CXmlParser().parseText(CAR_RECORDS)

or anything of the kind…

Thanks!

Answer 1

The most simple way (pseudo code):

• Create a tree structure with MarkupBuilder
• Convert that into an string with XML markup
• Parse that String to get W3C DOM nodes

Background: The W3C DOM API is very unfriendly from a Groovy point of view which is why the MarkupBuilder uses its own type.

Which is why Groovy supports the inverse operation: Convert W3C DOM nodes to groovy.util.Nodes using DomToGroovy

See also: Creating XML using Groovy’s MarkupBuilder