Questions tagged [xmlslurper]
XMLSlurper is a Groovy class that makes parsing and working with XML simpler than with Java.
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Groovy XmlSlurper vs XmlParser
I searched for a while on this topic and found some results too, which I am mentioning at the end of post. Can someone help me precisely answer these three questions for the cases listed below them?
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How can I check for the existence of an element with Groovy's XmlSlurper?
I'm trying to determine whether an XML element exists with Groovy's XmlSlurper. Is there a way to do this? For example:
<foo>
<bar/>
</foo>
How do I check whether the bar ...
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How to work around Groovy's XmlSlurper refusing to parse HTML due to DOCTYPE and DTD restrictions?
I'm trying to copy an element in an HTML coverage report, so the coverage totals appear at the top of the report as well as the bottom.
The HTML starts thus and I believe is well-formed:
<?xml ...
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tag0 namespace added for elements in default namespace
I'm trying to parse and modify a Maven's pom.xml using Groovy's XmlSlurper. My pom.xml declares the namespace xsi.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<project xmlns="http:...
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XmlSlurper.parse(uri) with HTTP basic authentication
I need to grab a data from XML-RPC web-service.
new XmlSlurper().parse("http://host/service") works fine, but now I have a particular service that requires basic HTTP authentication.
How can I set ...
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Groovy XmlSlurper: Find elements in XML structure
Let's say there is the following XML structure:
<Data>
<DataFieldText>
<DataFieldName>Field #1</DataFieldName>
<DataFieldValue>1</DataFieldValue&...
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Namespace handling in Groovys XmlSlurper
The situation:
def str = """
<foo xmlns:weird="http://localhost/">
<bar>sudo </bar>
<weird:bar>make me a sandwich!</weird:bar>
</foo>
"""
def xml = new ...
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How can I use relative paths to external response files for soapUI MockService
What I've Done
I am using soapUI (3.6.1 Free version) mock services to serve up specific data to 2 client applications I am testing. With some simple Groovy script I've set up some mock operations to ...
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cannot resolve symbol ConfigSlurper and XmlSlurper after upgrade to AS 3.0
I get cannot resolve symbol errors for ConfigSlurper and XmlSlurper in my build.gradle after upgrading Android Studio to 3.0, does it require code changes in the new AS? or any replacement for them?
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MalformedURLException when using XmlSlurper
I have following code snippet in groovy:
s = '''
<html>
<head>
<title>My title</title>
</head>
<body>
This is body!
</body>
</html>'''
new XmlSlurper()...
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How to read the hyphenated attribute names (Eg. model_name) while parsing xml using XmlSlurper
I am trying to read an attribute while parsing XML using XmlSlurper in Groovy. When I try to read the hyphenated attribute model-number I am getting an exception.
<router name="b" id="x" ...
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Groovy: Correct Syntax for XMLSlurper to find elements with a given attribute
Given a HTML file with the structure html -> body -> a bunch of divs what is the correct groovy statement to find all of the divs with a non blank tags attribute?
The following is not working:
def ...
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Using XmlSlurper: How to select sub-elements while iterating over a GPathResult
I am writing an HTML parser, which uses TagSoup to pass a well-formed structure to XMLSlurper.
Here's the generalised code:
def htmlText = """
<html>
<body>
<div id="divId" class="...
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Parsing (very) large XML files with XmlSlurper
I am kind of new to Groovy and I am trying to read a (quite) large XML file (more than 1Gb) using XmlSlurper, which is supposed to work wonders with large files due to the fact that it doesn't build ...
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XmlSlurper: How to change the text of a dynamic node
<Messdaten>
<EL_NR>NAYP99</EL_NR>
<EL_NR_Original/>
<Erfassungsdatum>2012-12-12 11:58:54.000</Erfassungsdatum>
<Massnahme>Lot_Hold</Massnahme>
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Groovy - XmlSlurper - read attributes into a Map
<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.
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Groovy Node.depthFirst() returning a List of Nodes and Strings?
I'm hoping someone will just point out something obvious that I'm missing here. I feel like I've done this a hundred times and for some reason tonight, the behavior coming from this is throwing me for ...
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How do you remove attributes from a node using Groovy's XMLSlurper and GPathResult?
I need to remove the attributes from a body node in some parsed HTML (converted to XML).
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extracting parts of HTML with groovy
I need to extract a part of HTML from a given HTML page. So far, I use the XmlSlurper with tagsoup to parse the HTML page and then try to get the needed part by using the StreamingMarkupBuilder:
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Change XML tag name
I want to transform an XML document which I have parsed with XmlSlurper. The (identical) XML tag names should be replaced with the value of the id attribute; all other attributes should be dropped. ...
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Writing updated XML to originally parsed file
I have a gradle.build where I am trying to:
read an XML file
use XmlSlurper to update an attribute in the read XML file
write the updated XML back to the originally parsed xml file.
The third step ...
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How to remove an element in Groovy using XmlSlurper?
For example, how can I remove all tags with name one in rootNode programmatically?
def rootNode = new XmlSlurper().parseText(
'<root><one a1="uno!"/><two>Some text!</two>&...
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How to get the next sibling with GPathResult
How can I get the next sibling of an GPathResult? For example I have the following code:
def priorityIssue = xmlReport.'**'.find { Issue ->
Issue.Priority.text() == priority
}
How do I get ...
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groovy - problem parsing xml
I am new to Groovy and I am trying to parse both a valid rest resource and an invalid one.
For example:
this code works fine -
def entity = new XmlSlurper().parse('http://api.twitter.com/1/users/...
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Jenkins: Using XmlSlurper In Declarative Pipeline
Using XmlSlurper, I am trying to read an XML file (specifically Web.config from a .Net-based API) as part of a Jenkins pipeline. I do not seem to be able to access any attributes of elements. The ...
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Fetching node from xml
I don't understand why this code fails to fetch a certain node from an xml string.
The code below will throw this error: groovy.util.slurpersupport.NodeChildren.attributes() is applicable for argument ...
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Extract URL from href-tag in groovy
I need to parse a malformed HTML-page and extract certain URLs from it as any kind of Collection.
I don't really care what kind of Collection, I just need to be able to iterate over it.
Let's say we ...
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Converting xml to domain object in Grails
I'm a grails newbie working on a project for fun. I'm serializing a class like this:
def msg = (listing as XML).toString()
the trying to deserialize a class using the XMLSlurper like this:
def ...
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Groovy pretty print XmlSlurper output from HTML?
I am using several different versions to do this but all seem to result in this error:
[Fatal Error] :1:171: The prefix "xmlns" cannot be bound to any namespace explicitly; neither can the namespace ...
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How to read XML file in groovy?
I am trying to read XML file in groovy with below lines of code
def xml=new XmlSlurper().parse("C:\2011XmlLog20110524_0623")
xml.Document.BillID.each{
println it}
I am getting file not found ...
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Jenkins node attribute access returns boolean instead of value
I'm trying to parse XML in Jenkins pipeline using XmlSlurper.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<testsuites>
<testsuite>
<properties>
<property ...
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How to parse non-well formatted HTML with XmlSlurper
I'm trying to parse a non-well-formatted HTML page with XmlSlurper, the Eclipse download site The W3C validator shows several errors in the page.
I tried the fault-tolerant parser from this post
@...
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Groovy delete a tag in a XMLSlurper, replaceNode {} does nothing
I am parsing some XML with XMLSlurper (groovy 1.7.4) and I need to delete a tag (not make it empty!). Here is a code sample illustrating it:
import groovy.xml.StreamingMarkupBuilder
def CAR_RECORDS =...
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Change xml element/tag name using XmlSlurper or XmlParser
I have an xml that looks like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Samples>
<Sample>
<Name>
Sample1
</Name>
<Date>...
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collect attributes and values into string list
I have xml data looking like this:
<persons>
<person key="M">John Doe</person>
<person key="N">Jane Doe</person>
</persons>
I want to collect them into a list ...
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Reading XML element with XmlSlurper in Groovy
I'd like to parse an XML document (SOAP request message) for a particular element. The document is stored in requestContent and looks as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:...
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Is it possible to parse sub-trees with Groovy XMLSlurper
Does anyone know whether it is possible to utilise XMLSlurper in a fashion that means individual sub-trees can be pulled from a very large XML document and processed individually?
Imagine you've got ...
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Sorting XML in Groovy
I have looked at the documentation on sorting XML with Groovy
def records = new XmlParser().parseText(XmlExamples.CAR_RECORDS)
assert ['Royale', 'P50', 'HSV Maloo'] == records.car.sort{ it.'@year'....
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XmlSlurper: Obtain the line number of groovy.util.slurpersupport.NodeChild in original file
I am using XmlSlurper to parse an XML file for processing.
I need to find the line number, of some matching criteria, within the file.
Here is what I have so far:
def void findServlets() {
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Nested GPath expressions with XmlSlurper and findAll
I'm trying to analyse an XML tree using XmlSlurper and GPath, and the behaviour of the findAll method confuses me.
Say, for example, that you have the following XML tree:
<html>
<body&...
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Parsing XML in Groovy with namespace and entities
Parsing XML in Groovy should be a piece of cake, but I always run into problems.
I would like to parse a string like this:
<html>
<p>
This is a <span>test</span> ...
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can I use XmlSlurper directly on a w3c.dom.Node object
I am experimenting with GroovyWS in the hope of completely replacing Axis2 client code.
One of the Webservice operations I call returns fragments of XML, which I need to turn into Groovy Beans.
I am ...
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How do I extract XML tags similar to XPATH with the XmlSlurper API in Java?
I am able to traverse the XML tree by importing the XmlSlurper API, but how do I extract specific tags from the XML like with XPATH? I want to extract them using the XmlSlurper API in Java in a way ...
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Groovy XMLSlurper appendNode - how force it to take effect?
I understand that XML document changes are not immediate when using Groovy's XMLSlurper and StreamingMarkupBuilder. However, I'm not happy having to do a lot of processing whenever I change a ...
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groovy XmlSlurper not parse my xml file
I have an xml, and I can't parse this file with xmlslurper.
Here a copy of my xml file :
<Entrezgene-Set>
<Entrezgene>
<Entrezgene_summary>The protein encoded by this gene is a ...
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Groovy XmlSlurper get value out of NodeChildren
I'm parsing HTML and trying to get full / not parsed value out of one particular node.
HTML example:
<html>
<body>
<div>Hello <br> World <br> !</div>
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XmlSlurper.appendNode doesn't change size
I work with XML using XmlSlurper. It works fine until I update it. The appendNode doesn't reflect the size.
How to worked with XmlSlurper after structure update?
XML definition:
def CAR_RECORDS = ''...
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How to use GPath with variable?
Let's say I have the following XML at hand
<Envelope>
<Body>
<analyzeEffectOfReplaceOfferResponse>
<productOfferings>
<productOffering>
<...
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Unable to add XMLSlurper to Eclipse Groovy project
I want to use XMLSlurper in my Groovy project in Eclipse.
I found out that i need to use Groovy-All Jar from https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.codehaus.groovy
to get those functionalities.
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Groovy: merging two XML files with GPathResult.appendNode(node) does not work
I need to write a script that takes several XML files and performs some operations basing on their contents. To make it easier to go through all the elements I wanted to merge all files into one XML ...
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