Transform

The syntax to edit xml is very intuitive, first of all we need to define a Modification Rule and then pass it as argument to transform method provided via extensions methods in NodeSeq class. transform method will return the XML edited wrapped in F[_].

A modification rule is composed by:

• XmlZoom: A case class with the aim to zoom inside document and select the node to edit.
• XmlModifier: A function that apply a transformation over selected node.

Note: Integrated with AdvXml there are implicits in order to add a more fluent syntax for rule creation. Each example is written with fluent syntax using implicits but commented you can see the “Desugared” version.

Classes

• XmlModifier = Object that represent an XML modification, is a function like NodeSeq => F[NodeSeq].
  • ComposableXmlModifier = Modifier that can be combined with other ComposableXmlModifier.
  • FinalXmlModifier = Modifier that can not be combine with other XmlModifier, for example Remove.
• XmlZoom = Case class that contains the traverse information to arrive to the target node.
• XmlRule = An object that contains Zoom instance and XmlModifier, this class provides a method to create the scala xml RewriteRule. This class inherit from AbstractRule(we see this below in the *“combine rules”* section).

Syntax

• root is the default XmlZoom that is empty so select the document root node, delegated to XmlZoom.empty
• $ equals to root and XmlZoom.empty but with different name, you should use it when your zoom will not start from the root so using root variable can create confusion. This is very useful when you have a huge XmlZoom expression and you what to split in into smaller XmlZoom. Advxml provides the monoid implementation of XmlZoom to use <+> to combine them.
• ==> is an alias to withModifier method.

Example

//Scala imports
import scala.xml.Elem
import scala.xml.NodeSeq
import scala.util.Try
import cats.instances.try_.*

//Advxml imports
import advxml.transform.XmlRule
import advxml.transform.XmlZoom.root
import advxml.transform.XmlModifier.*
import advxml.implicits.*

val doc: Elem =
  <Persons>
    <Person Name="Mimmo">
      <Cars>
        <Car Brand="Fiat"/>
      </Cars>
    </Person>
  </Persons>
// doc: Elem = <Persons>
//     <Person Name="Mimmo">
//       <Cars>
//         <Car Brand="Fiat"/>
//       </Cars>
//     </Person>
//   </Persons>

val rule: XmlRule = root.Person.Cars ==> Append(<Car Brand="Lamborghini"/>)
// rule: XmlRule = Composable(Unbinded(List(Down(Person), Down(Cars))),List(Append(<Car Brand="Lamborghini"/>)))

//  Desugared
//  val rule: XmlRule = root
//    .down("Person")
//    .down("Cars")
//    .withModifier(Append(<Car Brand="Lamborghini"/>))

val result: Try[NodeSeq] = doc.transform[Try](rule)
// result: Try[NodeSeq] = Success(<Persons><Person Name="Mimmo"><Cars>
//         <Car Brand="Fiat"/>
//       <Car Brand="Lamborghini"/></Cars></Person></Persons>)

Combine rules

We can combine rules using an abstraction hover the XmlRule class, the AbstractRule(this name can change in the future). AbstractRule allow us to combine rules with And and OrElse operators, moreover using a similar logic as OrElse we can describe a rule as Optional, doing this if the rule fails it returns the xml document passed as input.

Given R1 and R2 where are both two simple rule when combine them we have the following behavior:

• R1 and R2 = If R1 or R2 fails the combined rule fails.
• R1 orElse R2 = If R1 fails we apply R2, if both fail the combined rule fails.
• R1 optional = Even if R1 fails the combined rule returns a success, but in case R1 fails we have the input document as output(so without any changes).

Example

import advxml.transform.{AbstractRule, ComposableXmlRule}

import scala.xml.*
import scala.util.*

//val doc: NodeSeq = <Root></Root>
val r1: ComposableXmlRule = root ==> Append(<Node1/>)
// r1: ComposableXmlRule = Composable(Unbinded(List()),List(Append(<Node1/>)))
val r2: ComposableXmlRule = root ==> Append(<Node1/>)
// r2: ComposableXmlRule = Composable(Unbinded(List()),List(Append(<Node1/>)))

//Will try to apply both R1 and R2
val r1AndR2: AbstractRule = r1.and(r2)
// r1AndR2: AbstractRule = And(Composable(Unbinded(List()),List(Append(<Node1/>))),Composable(Unbinded(List()),List(Append(<Node1/>))))

//Will try to apply R1, if it fails will apply R2, if R2 fails r1OrR2 fails
val r1OrR2: AbstractRule = r1.orElse(r2)
// r1OrR2: AbstractRule = OrElse(Composable(Unbinded(List()),List(Append(<Node1/>))),Composable(Unbinded(List()),List(Append(<Node1/>))))

//Will try to apply R1, even if it fails r1Optional will success but in case R1 fails the out is the input document without changes
val r1Optional: AbstractRule = r1.optional
// r1Optional: AbstractRule = Optional(Composable(Unbinded(List()),List(Append(<Node1/>))))

Combine modifiers

If we need apply more than one modification on a selected node you can combine actions calling again withModifier method, or using some sugared syntax ==>.

Doing this we can specify another XmlModifier to combine. It can be a ComposableXmlModifier or a FinalXmlModifier. As suggested by the name, if we pass a FinalXmlModifier there is no more the possibility to continue the chain.

Actually the only implementation of FinalXmlModifier is just the Delete action, in this way we prevent at compile time the deletion of a node before other actions, if you use Delete you can not do anything else on that node.

Example

import scala.xml.*
import scala.util.*
import advxml.implicits.*

val myDoc: Elem =
  <Persons>
    <Person Name="Mimmo">
      <Cars>
        <Car Brand="Fiat"/>
      </Cars>
    </Person>
  </Persons>
// myDoc: Elem = <Persons>
//     <Person Name="Mimmo">
//       <Cars>
//         <Car Brand="Fiat"/>
//       </Cars>
//     </Person>
//   </Persons>

//you can use postfixOps and remove dots and useless brackets 
val rule = root.Person.Cars 
            .withModifier(Append(<Car Brand="Lamborghini"/>))
            .withModifier(Append(<Car Brand="Ferrari"/>))
            .withModifier(Append(<Car Brand="Bmw"/>))
// rule: ComposableXmlRule = Composable(Unbinded(List(Down(Person), Down(Cars))),List(Append(<Car Brand="Lamborghini"/>), Append(<Car Brand="Ferrari"/>), Append(<Car Brand="Bmw"/>)))

//  Desugared
//  val rules: XmlRule = root
//      .down("Person")
//      .down("Cars")
//      .withModifier(Append(<Car Brand="Lamborghini"/>))
//      .withModifier(Append(<Car Brand="Ferrari"/>))
//      .withModifier(Append(<Car Brand="Bmw"/>))

val result: Try[NodeSeq] = myDoc.transform[Try](rule)  
// result: Try[NodeSeq] = Success(<Persons><Person Name="Mimmo"><Cars>
//         <Car Brand="Fiat"/>
//       <Car Brand="Lamborghini"/><Car Brand="Ferrari"/><Car Brand="Bmw"/></Cars></Person></Persons>)

You can also use the Monoid implementation provided in the instances to combine multiple ComposableXmlModifier

import cats.kernel.Monoid

import scala.xml.*
import scala.util.*
import cats.syntax.monoid.*
import advxml.transform.*

val m1: ComposableXmlModifier = Append(<Car Brand="Lamborghini"/>)
// m1: ComposableXmlModifier = Append(<Car Brand="Lamborghini"/>)
val m2: ComposableXmlModifier = Append(<Car Brand="Ferrari"/>)
// m2: ComposableXmlModifier = Append(<Car Brand="Ferrari"/>)
val m3: ComposableXmlModifier = Append(<Car Brand="Tesla"/>)
// m3: ComposableXmlModifier = Append(<Car Brand="Tesla"/>)

val m4: ComposableXmlModifier = Monoid.combineAll(Seq(m1, m2, m3))
// m4: ComposableXmlModifier = advxml.transform.ComposableXmlModifierInstances$$anon$1$$anon$2@72527b7a
val m4Sugar: ComposableXmlModifier = m1 |+| m2 |+| m3
// m4Sugar: ComposableXmlModifier = advxml.transform.ComposableXmlModifierInstances$$anon$1$$anon$2@140d1026

Root transformation

If we need to edit the document root we can use root as zoom action. root value is provided by advxml.instances.transform.*

Example

import scala.xml.*
import scala.util.*

//import MonadError instance for Try
import cats.instances.try_.*

val doc: Elem = <Root/>
// doc: Elem = <Root/>
val result: Try[NodeSeq] = doc.transform[Try](root ==> SetAttrs(k"Attr1" := v"TEST"))
// result: Try[NodeSeq] = Success(<Root Attr1="TEST"/>)