XmlEditor

Transforms XML content.

Parameters

Name	Description	Allowed Values	Required	Default
contentIndexes	List of content indexes to include or exclude	integer (list)
contentTags	List of content tags to include or exclude, matching any	string (list)
excludeContentIndexes	Exclude specified content indexes	boolean		false
excludeContentTags	Exclude specified content tags	boolean		false
excludeFilePatterns	Exclude specified file patterns	boolean		false
excludeMediaTypes	Exclude specified media types	boolean		false
filePatterns	List of file patterns to include or exclude, supporting wildcards (*)	string (list)
mediaTypes	List of media types to consider, supporting wildcards (*)	string (list)
xmlEditingCommands	List of XML editing commands to be applied in order	string (list)	✔

Input

Content

Input content to act on may be selected (or inversely selected using the exclude parameters) with contentIndexes, mediaTypes, and/or filePatterns. If any of these are set and the content is not matched, the content is passed through unchanged.

Output

Content

Transforms each content using the provided list of XML editing commands. The content will be passed through unchanged if commands don't match any of its tags.

Errors

• On malformed command provided in xmlEditingCommands
• On XSLT transform failure
• On successful xpath matching when using the errorOnTag command

Details

Commands

XML editing commands consist of a command followed by a space-separated list of arguments.

Command	Arguments	Description
removeTag	<xpath>	Removes a tag
renameTag	<xpath> <new tag name>	Renames a tag
replaceTag	<xpath> <new content>	Replaces a tag
replaceTagContent	<xpath> <new content>	Replaces the contents of a tag
appendChild	<xpath> <new content>	Adds content to the end of a tag's children
prependChild	<xpath> <new content>	Adds content to the beginning of a tag's children
filterOnTag	[[not] <xpath>] [[and|nand|or|nor|xor|xnor] <xpath>...] "<message>"	Filters on existence of tags
errorOnTag	[[not] <xpath>] [[and|nand|or|nor|xor|xnor] <xpath>...] "<message>"	Errors on existence of tags

and- filter or error if all are found  nand- filter or error if any are not found
or- filter or error if any are found nor- filter or error if all are not found
xor- filter or error if an odd number are found xnor- filter or error if none or an even number are found

Examples

Input Content: <log><note>some info</note></log>

Example	Result
removeTag note	<log></log>
renameTag note message	<log><message>some info</message></log>
replaceTag note <message>data</message>	<log><message>data</message></log>
replaceTagContent note <message>data</message>	<log><note><message>data</message></note></log>
appendChild log <note>more data</note>	<log><note>some info</note><note>more data</note></log>
prependChild log <note>more data</note>	<log><note>more data</note><note>some information</note></log>
filterOnTag /log/note "Contained a bad tag!"	filters if content contains a /log/note
errorOnTag not /log/checksum "Required tag doesn't exist!"	errors if content doesn't contain a /log/checksum
filterOnTag or /log/note /log/alpha /log/bravo "Contained one or more forbidden tags!"	filters if content contains any of the supplied tags
errorOnTag nor /log/note /log/alpha /log/bravo "Didn't contain all required tags!"	errors if content doesn't contain all of the supplied tags