fast-xml-parser

import { XMLParser, XMLValidator } from 'fast-xml-parser'; const xmlData = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <bookstore> <book category="cooking"> <title lang="en">Everyday Italian</title> <author>Giada De Laurentiis</author> <year>2005</year> <price>30.00</price> </book> <book category="children"> <title lang="en">Harry Potter</title> <author>J.K. Rowling</author> <year>2005</year> <price>29.99</price> </book> </bookstore>`; // 1. Validate XML const validationResult = XMLValidator.validate(xmlData); if (validationResult === true) { console.log('XML is syntactically valid.'); } else { console.error('XML validation failed:', validationResult); // In a real application, you might throw or exit here. } // 2. Parse XML to a JavaScript object const parserOptions = { ignoreAttributes: false, // Keep attributes attributeNamePrefix: "@_", // Prefix for attributes allowBooleanAttributes: true, // Handle boolean attributes like <tag checked/> parseTagValue: true, // Attempt to parse values as numbers/booleans parseAttributeValue: true, // Attempt to parse attribute values trimValues: true, // Trim whitespace from values cdataPropName: "cdata" // Name for CDATA section property }; const parser = new XMLParser(parserOptions); const jsonObj = parser.parse(xmlData); console.log('Parsed JSON object:\n', JSON.stringify(jsonObj, null, 2)); // Example of accessing parsed data console.log('\nFirst book title:', jsonObj.bookstore.book[0].title['#text']); console.log('Second book author:', jsonObj.bookstore.book[1].author);