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`from xml` for formats

Parse text as .xml and create record.

Signature

> from xml {flags}

Flags

--keep-comments, -: add comment nodes to result
--keep-pi, -: add processing instruction nodes to result

Input/output types:

input	output
string	record

Examples

Converts xml formatted string to record

>'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<note>
  <remember>Event</remember>
</note>'|from xml
╭────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│tag│note│
│attributes│ {record0fields}                                                         │
││╭───┬──────────┬───────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────╮│
│content││# │   tag    │    attributes     │              content               │ │
││├───┼──────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤│
│││0│remember│ {record0fields} │╭───┬─────┬────────────┬─────────╮││
│││││││# │ tag │ attributes │ content │ │ │
││││││├───┼─────┼────────────┼─────────┤││
│││││││0│││Event│││
││││││╰───┴─────┴────────────┴─────────╯││
││╰───┴──────────┴───────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────╯│
╰────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Notes

Every XML entry is represented via a record with tag, attribute and content fields. To represent different types of entries different values are written to this fields:

Tag entry: {tag: <tag name> attrs: {<attr name>: "<string value>" ...} content: [<entries>]}
Comment entry: {tag: '!' attrs: null content: "<comment string>"}
Processing instruction (PI): {tag: '?<pi name>' attrs: null content: "<pi content string>"}
Text: {tag: null attrs: null content: "<text>"}.