sax-stream
v1.3.0
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Transform stream implemented using SAX parser
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sax-stream
Transform stream for parsing large XML files. It is using SAX module internally. Emits objects: one object per each selected node.
Installation
$ npm install sax-stream
Usage
Use as any transform stream: pipe request or file stream to it, pipe it downstream to another
transform/writeable stream or handle data
event.
var saxStream = require('sax-stream');
request('http://blog.npmjs.org/rss')
.pipe(saxStream({
strict: true,
tag: 'item'
})
.on('data', function(item) {
console.log(item);
});
API
Create passing options object:
tag
- name of the tag to select objects from XML file, an Array of tag names can be used - when multiple tags are specified stream pushes{ tag, record }
tupleshighWaterMark
- size of internal transform stream buffer - defaults to 350 objectsstrict
- default to false, iftrue
makes sax parser to accept valid XML onlytrim
,normalize
,lowercase
,xmlns
,position
,strictEntities
,noscript
- passed to sax parser
License
MIT