Groovy - XmlSlurper - read attributes into a Map

Question

<racebet amount="8.89" id="6852465" bettype="K" instance="1" type="csf" />

What is the best way to create a map containing the attributes as keys and the corresponding values?

thanks.

Answer 1

Given:

def xml = '<racebet amount="8.89" id="6852465" bettype="K" instance="1" type="csf" />'

You can simply do:

def attrmap = new XmlSlurper().parseText( xml ).attributes()