I am trying to parse and query for an element within an xml using xml2js. My xml string is as follows:
var xml = "<config><test>Hello</test><data>SomeData</data></config>";
What I want is to extract the value in and assign it to var extractedData
Here's what I have so far:
var parser = new xml2js.Parser();
parser.parseString(xml, function(err,result){
//Extract the value from the data element
extractedData = result['data'];
}
This does not work. Can somebody point out how I might be able to grab the values from my xml?
Thanks
This doesn't seem to be working. Can somebody tell me what might be the issue here?
it works for me
var xml2js = require('xml2js');
var xml = "<config><test>Hello</test><data>SomeData</data></config>";
var extractedData = "";
var parser = new xml2js.Parser();
parser.parseString(xml, function(err,result){
//Extract the value from the data element
extractedData = result['config']['data'];
console.log(extractedData);
});
console.log("Note that you can't use value here if parseString is async; extractedData=", extractedData);
result:
SomeData
Note that you can't use value here if parseString is async; extractedData= SomeData
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