Xpath-Generator

Node script (API & CLI) that can generate a list of xpaths for XML files, group & count them, list attributes & values.

Tree view :

List view:

CLI :

npm i -g xpath-generator

Then :

xpath-generator -f /folder/ -o /output

Folder information

If you want to lauch xpath-generator on a folder, please make sur all your XML are at the top level of our folder, xpath-generator will not go through subfolder to find them.

If your main folder contains nasted subfolders wich contains your xml (ex: /main/sub/ex.xml) please consider using Sisyphe

Help

xpath-generator --help

Options

-h, --help //output usage information

-V, --version //output the version number

-a, --attributes //Will return all attributes & 10 first uniques values for all paths

-i, --input <"path"> //An xml input file

-f, --folder <"path"> //A folder containing xml files

-o, --output <path/"console"> //Generate files to specific folder, default output is terminal

-t, --type <"tree"/"xpaths"/"both"> Type of format output, can be 'tree' 'xpaths' or 'both' for outputdir, 'tree' 'xpaths' for console

-n, --nbattvalues // Number of attribute values to output (see -a), default value: 10

Use xpath-generator as API :

npm i -save xpath-generator

Load it :

const FromXML = require('xpath-generator').FromXML,
      FromFolder = require('xpath-generator').FromFolder;

Use it :

let xml = new FromXml().generate('path/to/XML').then(result=> {
  for (var key in result) {
    console.log(`${path} ${result[path].countElement}`);
  }
});
let xmls = new FromFolder().generateAll(program.folder).then(result=> {
  for (var key in result) {
    console.log(`${path} ${result[path].countElement}`);
  }
});

Result will return an array of object like:

[
  {
    '/path/number/1' : {
      countElement : n,
      level : n,
      attributes: {
        attr1: ['a','list','of','distinct','values','for','attr1'],
        attr2,
        ...
      }
    }
  },
  {
    '/path/number/2' : {
      countElement : n,
      level : n,
      attributes: {
        attr1: ['a','list','of','distinct','values','for','attr1'],
        attr2,
        ...
      }
    }
  }
]

Info

There is a default limit of maximum 10 values for each attributes. Change it using --nbattvalues (or -n) option.