sax is too much work, and xml2js only works if you never have tags with the same name!

sax-bastard is based on sax-js, but returns a hierarchy of objects, each one having these properties:

• name (string): the tag name
• text (string): any text content of the element that is not part of the XML hierarchy
• attributes (object): the object's properties are the attribute names, the values are the attribute values
• children (array): an array containing all of the objects representing any child elements

To install:

npm install sax-bastard

To use:

var parse = require('sax-bastard')
var obj = parse(xml_string, function(err) {
	console.log("This is an error object, because an error happened apparently!")
	console.log(err)
})

If an error happens and no error callback is provided, the parse() function returns the error object instead of the thing you were hoping for.