Parsing HTML/XML

Lately I've been researching how to write a simple HTML/XML -> JSON converter. My syntax isn't completely standard HTML (i.e.,

<Button>

<Button>

is possible) which makes this a notch harder than it probably should be. Here's an example of how things should work: https://github.com/gustwindjs/gustwind/blob/feat/html-prototype/html-to-breezewind/tests/element_test.ts .

The current implementation relies on https://deno.land/x/deno_dom but the problem is that it's losing information for

tagName

tagName

. I cannot use it to tell a

button

button

apart from a

Button

Button

as it's uppercasing the tag by default.

As an alternative, I looked into https://deno.land/x/xml but it's losing structural information due to its automatic grouping (i.e., it folds

div

div

s within a single array and loses their relative positioning so I cannot map the structure later on to match the original).

Any insight on the issue would be valuable. Maybe I have to fork either to add the missing functionality but I hope to avoid that.

GitHub

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Parsing HTML/XML

Lately I've been researching how to write a simple HTML/XML -> JSON converter. My syntax isn't completely standard HTML (i.e.,

<Button>

<Button>

tagName

tagName

. I cannot use it to tell a

button

button

apart from a

Button

Button

as it's uppercasing the tag by default.

As an alternative, I looked into https://deno.land/x/xml but it's losing structural information due to its automatic grouping (i.e., it folds

div

div

GitHub

gustwind/html-to-breezewind/tests/element_test.ts at feat/html-prot...

– Deno powered JSON oriented site generator. Contribute to gustwindjs/gustwind development by creating an account on GitHub.

Parsing HTML/XML

Parsing HTML/XML

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