Node.js library implementing W3C XML DOM?

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I've written some code to manipulate an XML document using standard W3C DOM APIs. It works well in the browser environment, and I'd like to get it to work under node.js. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a working node.js library implementing standard W3C DOM APIs. Here are the libraries I have tried:

node-o3-xml - segfaults on parse
node-o3-fastxml - segfaults on parse
libxmljs - does not use standard W3C DOM APIs
jsdom - uses HTML DOM, rather than XML DOM (e.g. element.tagName will return the uppercase form, rather than case-sensitive form)

I could write a second implementation, using a different API, to perform the same function, but I'd rather find a library that will expose these standard interfaces, so that I can use the same code in both contexts. Is there a working node.js library that implements the W3C DOM API?

o3-xml worked for me on node 0.4.x. Now that I'm trying it on 0.6.8 it segfaults on parse — https://github.com/ajaxorg/node-o3-xml/issues/23 — kangax, Jan 29 '12 at 00:30
BTW there is no win64 binary, I get Error: %1 is not a valid Win32 application: o3-win32.node — Stepan Yakovenko, Sep 01 '14 at 03:59

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '12 at 05:12

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XMLDOM might be a good choice, it's a W3C Standard based DOMParser and XMLSerializer (DOM Level2 CORE)

good luck

answered May 22 '12 at 05:12

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`xmldom` has no xpath support. – Dec 28 '14 at 19:21
`xmldom` doesn't support `<!ENTITY>` declarations. – David Caldwell Apr 02 '15 at 21:48
//xpath2 using xmldom as target document (https://github.com/jindw/xmldom) https://github.com/ilinsky/xpath.js , however i would look for libxmljs, it has xpath and xslt is available for it also – neu-rah Nov 12 '15 at 23:56

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 01 '11 at 22:51

Cloud9 uses node-o3-xml, but I have had a horrible time with it while developing on a Mac. I talked to some folks in the #nodejs IRC room and the prevaling choice seemed to be libxmljs. I've used that myself and it seems to work well, though it's not the W3C DOM API.

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