multiple elements with different values

[localguru]

Hi,

for a shibb IdP I'd like to generate something like this:

      <mdui:UIInfo>
        <mdui:DisplayName xml:lang="de">Mein Titel</mdui:DisplayName>
        <mdui:DisplayName xml:lang="en">My title</mdui:DisplayName>
        <mdui:Description xml:lang="de">Ein Test</mdui:Description>
        <mdui:Description xml:lang="en">a test</mdui:Description>
      </mdui:UIInfo>

My js code:

                                  'mdui:UIInfo': {
                                    'mdui:DisplayName': { '@xml:lang': 'de', '#text': 'Mein Titel' },
                                    'mdui:DisplayName': { '@xml:lang': 'en', '#text': 'My title' },
                                    'mdui:Description': { '@xml:lang': 'de', '#text': 'Ein Test' },
                                    'mdui:Description': { '@xml:lang': 'en', '#text': 'A test' },
                                  }

This code ends up in just one element of DisplayName and Description

      <mdui:UIInfo>
        <mdui:DisplayName xml:lang="en">My title</mdui:DisplayName>
        <mdui:Description xml:lang="en">a test</mdui:Description>
      </mdui:UIInfo>

Any ideas?

Ciao!

[oozcitak]

JS objects cannot have duplicate keys. You need to wrap those elements in an array.

[localguru]

Hi,

could you give an code example please?

I tried this, but it's not working:

                                  'mdui:UIInfo': {
                                    "mdui:DisplayName": [
                                      {
                                        "@xml:lang": "de",
                                        "#text": "AAA"
                                      },
                                      {
                                        "@xml:lang": "en",
                                        "#text": "BBB"
                                      }
                                    ],

Output is

<mdui:DisplayName xml:lang="en">AAA  BBB</mdui:DisplayName>

Thanks

[localguru]

Am Donnerstag, den 25.05.2017, 13:05 -0700 schrieb Ozgur Ozcitak:

See here please: #71 (comment)

Sorry, but still don't get it. Could you give an example please. Thanks marcus

[oozcitak]

Here is a workaround:

var obj = { 'mdui:UIInfo' : 
  [
    { 'mdui:DisplayName': { "@xml:lang": "de", "#text": "Mein Titel" } },
    { 'mdui:DisplayName': { "@xml:lang": "en", "#text": "My title" } },
    { 'mdui:Description': { "@xml:lang": "de", "#text": "Ein Test" } },
    { 'mdui:Description': { "@xml:lang": "en", "#text": "a test" } }
  ]
};

xmlbuilder.create(obj, {separateArrayItems: true});

[localguru]

Ozgur! Thank you, that's working 🥇

[oozcitak]

Your code should also work too:

'mdui:UIInfo': {
  "mdui:DisplayName": [
    { "@xml:lang": "de", "#text": "AAA" },
    { "@xml:lang": "en", "#text": "BBB" }
  ]
}

I'll take a look.

[rgilling]

I'm trying to generate a moderately complicated XML, but I've hit an issue similar to this one. The solution works at the first level, but on the second level it doesn't output correctly. Here is a sample JSON object that I'm converting. The attribute groups are expanded correctly, but the nested attribute are not. I tried using both forms with each array element prefixed with 'attribute' and not. I'm trying to build a list of 'attribute' elements directly under each 'attribute-group'

{
      "category": {
        "@category-id": "twe-root",
        "display-name": {
          "#text": "Root",
          "@xml:lang": "x-default"
        },
        "description": {
          "#text": "Master Catalogue for Treasury Wines",
          "@xml:lang": "x-default"
        },
        "online-flag": {
          "#text": true
        },
        "attribute-groups": [
          {
            "attribute-group": {
              "@group-id": "wine",
              "display-name": {
                "#text": "Wine Attributes",
                "@xml:lang": "x-default"
              },
              "attribute": [
                {
                  "@attribute-id": "wineContentChannels",
                  "@system": false
                },
                {
                  "@attribute-id": "wineTastingNotesPDF",
                  "@system": false
                },
                {
                  "@attribute-id": "wineCOGS",
                  "@system": false
                },
                {
                  "@attribute-id": "wineCollection",
                  "@system": false
                },
                {
                  "@attribute-id": "wineType",
                  "@system": false
                },
                {
                  "@attribute-id": "wineVariety",
                  "@system": false
                },
                {
                  "@attribute-id": "wineBottleType",
                  "@system": false
                },
                {
                  "@attribute-id": "wineVintage",
                  "@system": false
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          {
            "attribute-group": {
              "@group-id": "coreProduct",
              "display-name": {
                "#text": "Core Product Attributes",
                "@xml:lang": "x-default"
              },
              "attribute": [
                {
                  "@attribute-id": "csrOnly",
                  "@system": false
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    },

[oozcitak]

Testing with the current master branch at d8d2447, it appears both issues are solved.

@localguru with this JS object:

{
  'mdui:UIInfo': {
    "mdui:DisplayName": [
      { "@xml:lang": "de", "#text": "AAA" }
      { "@xml:lang": "en", "#text": "BBB" }
    ]
  }
}

the output is

<mdui:UIInfo>
  <mdui:DisplayName xml:lang="de">AAA</mdui:DisplayName>
  <mdui:DisplayName xml:lang="en">BBB</mdui:DisplayName>
</mdui:UIInfo>

@rgilling with your JS object above the output is:

<category category-id="twe-root">
  <display-name xml:lang="x-default">Root</display-name>
  <description xml:lang="x-default">Master Catalogue for Treasury Wines</description>
  <online-flag>true</online-flag>
  <attribute-groups>
    <attribute-group group-id="wine">
      <display-name xml:lang="x-default">Wine Attributes</display-name>
      <attribute attribute-id="wineContentChannels" system="false"/>
      <attribute attribute-id="wineTastingNotesPDF" system="false"/>
      <attribute attribute-id="wineCOGS" system="false"/>
      <attribute attribute-id="wineCollection" system="false"/>
      <attribute attribute-id="wineType" system="false"/>
      <attribute attribute-id="wineVariety" system="false"/>
      <attribute attribute-id="wineBottleType" system="false"/>
      <attribute attribute-id="wineVintage" system="false"/>
    </attribute-group>
  </attribute-groups>
  <attribute-groups>
    <attribute-group group-id="coreProduct">
      <display-name xml:lang="x-default">Core Product Attributes</display-name>
      <attribute attribute-id="csrOnly" system="false"/>
    </attribute-group>
  </attribute-groups>
</category>

Can you please check if those are the expected results?

[littlebacklash]

@oozcitak I know this issue is closed, but a new scenario came up. How could I generate an xml with this structure?

      <text>
        <paragraph>Symbolic text number 1</paragraph>
        <table>
          <thead>
            <tr>
              <th>Desc</th>
              <th>Value</th>
            </tr>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <tr>
              <td>desc 1</td>
              <td>value 1</td>
            </tr>
          </tbody>
        </table>
        <paragraph>** Symbolic text number 2 **</paragraph>
      </text>

where there are 2 paragraphs nodes, but in differents parts of the xml body.
Thanks in advance!!

[oozcitak]

@littlebacklash You can do something like this (note the #text decorator):

const obj = {
  'text': {
    '#text': [
      { 'paragraph': 'Symbolic text number 1' }
      { 'table': '' }
      { 'paragraph': '** Symbolic text number 2 **' }
    ]
  }
}