xmlpatch

go-xml-patch

A golang implementation of RFC 5261: "An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Patch Operations Framework Utilizing XML Path Language (XPath) Selectors".

Status

This library is still in early stage. API may break. Missing functionality (see progress). Probably buggy 🐛.

Usage

Install

go get github.com/maxyurk/go-xml-patch

Code

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/maxyurk/go-xml-patch"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	target, _ := os.ReadFile("target.xml")
	diff, _ := os.ReadFile("diff.xml")
	patch, err := xmlpatch.Patch(target, diff)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(patch)
}

Example from RFC 5261

An example target XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<doc>
    <foo a="1">This is a sample document</foo>
</doc>

An XML diff document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<diff>
    <replace sel="doc/foo[@a='1']">
        <bar a="2"/>
    </replace>
</diff>

A result XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<doc>
    <bar a="2"/>
</doc>

Progress

Specification Items

• 4.3. <add> Element
  • 4.3.1. Adding an Element
  • 4.3.2. Adding an Attribute
  • 4.3.3. Adding a Prefixed Namespace Declaration
  • 4.3.4. Adding Node(s) with the 'pos' Attribute
  • 4.3.5. Adding Multiple Nodes
• 4.4. <replace> Element (with optional auto-create, see #2)
  • 4.4.1. Replacing an Element
  • 4.4.2. Replacing an Attribute Value
  • 4.4.3. Replacing a Namespace Declaration URI
  • 4.4.4. Replacing a Comment Node
  • 4.4.5. Replacing a Processing Instruction Node
  • 4.4.6. Replacing a Text Node
• 4.5. <remove> Element
  • 4.5.1. Removing an Element
  • 4.5.2. Removing an Attribute
  • 4.5.3. Removing a Prefixed Namespace Declaration
  • 4.5.4. Removing a Comment Node
  • 4.5.5. Removing a Processing Instruction Node
  • 4.5.6. Removing a Text Node

Other

• CI
• Release flow
• better docs
• coverage

Release

(manual for now)

Follow Go module publishing instructions and then create a new Github release.