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Converts a Lua value (table) into properly formatted XML

luatoxml

Converts a Lua value (table) into properly formatted XML

example

Consider the following Lua table:

local luaobj = {
	root = {
		children = {
			{
				tag = {
					foo = "bar",
					boo = "far",
				}
			},
			{
				tag = {
					foo = "bar",
					boo = "far",
					"value"
				}
			},
			{
				tag = {
					foo = "bar",
					boo = "far",
					{ "emptychild" }
				}
			},
			{
				tag = {
					foo = "bar",
					boo = "far",
					"emptychild1",
					"emptychild2"
				}
			},
			{
				tag = "value"
			},
			"emptytag"
		}
	}
}

Parse it like this:

local xml = luatoxml.toxml(luaobj)
print(xml)

Resulting output:

<root>
	<children>
		<tag boo="far" foo="bar"/>
		<tag boo="far" foo="bar">value</tag>
		<tag boo="far" foo="bar">
			<emptychild/>
		</tag>
		<tag boo="far" foo="bar">
			<emptychild1/>
			<emptychild2/>
		</tag>
		<tag>value</tag>
		<emptytag/>
	</children>
</root>