NativeScript/node-tests/test-xml.ts

import {assert} from "chai";
import xml = require('xml');

describe("xml parser", () => {
    let last_element = null;
    let last_attrs = null;
    let last_data = null;
    let parser = null;

    beforeEach(() => {
        parser = new xml.XmlParser(function (event: xml.ParserEvent) {
            switch (event.eventType) {
                case xml.ParserEventType.StartElement:
                    last_element = event.elementName;
                    last_attrs = event.attributes;
                    break;
                case xml.ParserEventType.Text:
                    last_data = event.data;
                    break;
            }
        });
    });

    it("handles whitespace around attribute =", () => {
        parser.parse("<TextField text = \n 'hello' />");

        assert.equal('TextField', last_element);
        assert.equal('hello', last_attrs['text']);
    });
    
    it("resolves entities", () => {
        parser.parse("<element>&lt;&gt;&quot;&amp;&apos;</element>");
        assert.equal("<>\"&'", last_data);
    });

    it("resolves greek letter entities in attributes", () => {
        parser.parse("<element text='&Omega;'>blah</element>");
        assert.equal("Ω", last_attrs.text);
    });

    it("resolves entities in element text", () => {
        parser.parse("<element>&Omega;</element>");
        assert.equal("Ω", last_data);
    });

});