Adds support of XML using xmldom

README.md

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ MIT license. See LICENSE for full details.
 * All spec methods (open, send, abort, getRequestHeader,
   getAllRequestHeaders, event methods)
 * Requests to all domains
+* XML parsing
 
 ## Known Issues / Missing Features ##
 
@@ -52,4 +53,3 @@ page](https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/issues).
 * Synchronous requests freeze node while waiting for response (But that's what you want, right? Stick with async!).
 * Some events are missing, such as abort
 * Cookies aren't persisted between requests
-* Missing XML support

lib/XMLHttpRequest.js

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
  *
  * @author Dan DeFelippi <[email protected]>
  * @contributor David Ellis <[email protected]>
+ * @contributor Guy Baconniere <[email protected]>
+ * @contributor Arnaud Spicht <[email protected]>
  * @license MIT
  */
 
@@ -442,6 +444,7 @@ exports.XMLHttpRequest = function() {
         });
 
         response.on("end", function() {
+          self.responseXML = html2dom(self.responseText);
           if (sendFlag) {
             // Discard the end event if the connection has been aborted
             setState(self.DONE);
@@ -478,15 +481,27 @@ exports.XMLHttpRequest = function() {
       // The async request the other Node process executes
       var execString = "var http = require('http'), https = require('https'), fs = require('fs');"
         + "var doRequest = http" + (ssl ? "s" : "") + ".request;"
+        + "var html2dom = function(html) {"
+        + "var result='';"
+        + "try {"
+        + "var DOMParser = require('xmldom').DOMParser;"     
+        + "var document = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html);"
+        + "result = document;"
+        + "} catch(err) {"      
+        + "}"
+        + "return result;"
+        + "};"
         + "var options = " + JSON.stringify(options) + ";"
         + "var responseText = '';"
+        + "var responseXML = '';"
         + "var req = doRequest(options, function(response) {"
         + "response.setEncoding('utf8');"
         + "response.on('data', function(chunk) {"
         + "  responseText += chunk;"
         + "});"
         + "response.on('end', function() {"
-        + "fs.writeFileSync('" + contentFile + "', JSON.stringify({err: null, data: {statusCode: response.statusCode, headers: response.headers, text: responseText}}), 'utf8');"
+        + "responseXML = html2dom(responseText);"
+        + "fs.writeFileSync('" + contentFile + "', JSON.stringify({err: null, data: {statusCode: response.statusCode, headers: response.headers, text: responseText, xml: responseXML}}), 'utf8');"
         + "fs.unlinkSync('" + syncFile + "');"
         + "});"
         + "response.on('error', function(error) {"
@@ -516,6 +531,7 @@ exports.XMLHttpRequest = function() {
         response = resp.data;
         self.status = resp.data.statusCode;
         self.responseText = resp.data.text;
+        self.responseXML = resp.data.xml;
         setState(self.DONE);
       }
     }
@@ -528,6 +544,7 @@ exports.XMLHttpRequest = function() {
     this.status = 0;
     this.statusText = error;
     this.responseText = error.stack;
+    this.responseXML = error.stack;
     errorFlag = true;
     setState(this.DONE);
     this.dispatchEvent('error');
@@ -617,4 +634,22 @@ exports.XMLHttpRequest = function() {
       }
     }
   };
+
+  /**
+   * Parse HTML string and return a DOM
+   *
+   * @param string HTML to be parsed.
+   * @return string DOM representation.
+   */
+  var html2dom = function(html) {    
+    var result = "";
+    try {
+      var DOMParser = require('xmldom').DOMParser;      
+      var document = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html);
+      result = document;
+    } catch(err) {
+      //throw "HTML_PARSE_ERR: unable to parse HTML : " + err;
+    }
+    return result;
+  };
 };

package.json

@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=0.4.0"
   },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "xmldom": ">= 0.1.19"
+  },
   "directories": {
     "lib": "./lib",
     "example": "./example"