ATOMWriter for NodeJS

ATOMWriter is small class, that provides methods to generate an ATOM feed. XML is still valid by using XMLWriter

Contributors

• Nicolas Thouvenin

Installation

With npm do:

$ npm install atom-writer

Examples

Basic

var XMLWriter = require('xml-writer')
var ATOMWriter = require('atom-writer')

xw = new XMLWriter(true)
aw = new ATOMWriter(xw)

aw
  .startFeed('urn:xxx:yyy')
  .writeStartIndex(1)
  .writeItemsPerPage(10)
  .writeTotalResults(100)
  .writeTitle('Index of /')
  .writeLink('http://exemple.com/feed.xml', 'application/atom+xml', 'self')

aw
  .startEntry('urn:xxx:yyy-1')
  .writeTitle('Data 1')
  .writeLink('/1.xml', 'text/xml')
  .writeLink('/1.txt', 'text/plain')
  .writeContent('Un', 'text', 'fr')
  .writeAuthor('Tata Toto', '[email protected]')
  .writeCategory('term', 'http://exemple.com#scheme')
  .endEntry()

aw
  .startEntry('urn:xxx-yyy-2')
  .writeTitle('Data 2')
  .writeLink('2.txt', 'text/plain')
  .writeContent('deux', 'text', 'fr')
  .writeAuthorRAW('[email protected]')
  .endEntry()

aw
  .endFeed()

console.log(xw.toString())

Output:

<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
  <id>urn:xxx:yyy</id>
  <updated>2012-07-02T15:22:40Z</updated>
  <opensearch:startIndex>1</opensearch:startIndex>
  <opensearch:itemsPerPage>10</opensearch:itemsPerPage>
  <opensearch:totalResults>100</opensearch:totalResults>
  <title type="text">Index of /</title>
  <link type="application/atom+xml" href="http://exemple.com/feed.xml" rel="self"/>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:xxx:yyy-1</id>
    <updated>2012-07-02T15:22:40Z</updated>
    <published>2012-07-02T15:22:40Z</published>
    <title type="text">Data 1</title>
    <link type="text/xml" href="/1.xml"/>
    <link type="text/plain" href="/1.txt"/>
    <content type="text" xml:lang="fr">Un</content>
    <author>
      <name>Tata Toto</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </author>
    <category term="term" scheme="http://exemple.com#scheme"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:xxx-yyy-2</id>
    <updated>2012-07-02T15:22:40Z</updated>
    <published>2012-07-02T15:22:40Z</published>
    <title type="text">Data 2</title>
    <link type="text/plain" href="2.txt"/>
    <content type="text" xml:lang="fr">deux</content>
    <author>
      <name>titi.toto</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </author>
  </entry>
</feed>

API Documentation

construct (XMLWriter o)

flush()

startFeed(String id, Date updated = null, Date created = null)

writeTitle(String value, String type = 'text', String lang = null)

writeLink(String value, String type = 'text/html', String rel = null)

writeAuthor(String name, String email = null, String uri = null)

writeAuthorRAW(String value)

writeContributor(String name, String email = null, String uri = null)

writeCategory(String term, String scheme = null, String label = null)

startEntry(String id, Date updated = null, Date created = null)

writeContent(String value, String type = null, String lang = null)

endEntry()

endFeed()

writeSearch(String url)

writeTotalResults(String value)

writeStartIndex(String value)

writeItemsPerPage(String value)

writeQuery(String searchTerms, Number startPage = 1, String role = 'request')

writeGenerator(String value, String version = null, String uri = null)

Also

• http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.7/dojox/atom/io/model.html
• https://github.com/wezm/node-genx

License

MIT/X11