Struct quick_xml::Writer

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pub struct Writer<W: Write> { /* private fields */ }

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XML writer.

Writes XML Events to a Write implementor.

Examples

use quick_xml::{Reader, Writer};
use quick_xml::events::{Event, BytesEnd, BytesStart};
use std::io::Cursor;

let xml = r#"<this_tag k1="v1" k2="v2"><child>text</child></this_tag>"#;
let mut reader = Reader::from_str(xml);
reader.trim_text(true);
let mut writer = Writer::new(Cursor::new(Vec::new()));
let mut buf = Vec::new();
loop {
    match reader.read_event(&mut buf) {
        Ok(Event::Start(ref e)) if e.name() == b"this_tag" => {

            // crates a new element ... alternatively we could reuse `e` by calling
            // `e.into_owned()`
            let mut elem = BytesStart::owned(b"my_elem".to_vec(), "my_elem".len());

            // collect existing attributes
            elem.extend_attributes(e.attributes().map(|attr| attr.unwrap()));

            // copy existing attributes, adds a new my-key="some value" attribute
            elem.push_attribute(("my-key", "some value"));

            // writes the event to the writer
            assert!(writer.write_event(Event::Start(elem)).is_ok());
        },
        Ok(Event::End(ref e)) if e.name() == b"this_tag" => {
            assert!(writer.write_event(Event::End(BytesEnd::borrowed(b"my_elem"))).is_ok());
        },
        Ok(Event::Eof) => break,
        // we can either move or borrow the event to write, depending on your use-case
        Ok(e) => assert!(writer.write_event(&e).is_ok()),
        Err(e) => panic!("{}", e),
    }
    buf.clear();
}

let result = writer.into_inner().into_inner();
let expected = r#"<my_elem k1="v1" k2="v2" my-key="some value"><child>text</child></my_elem>"#;
assert_eq!(result, expected.as_bytes());

Implementations

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impl<W: Write> Writer<W>

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pub fn new(inner: W) -> Writer<W>

Creates a Writer from a generic Write

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pub fn new_with_indent(inner: W, indent_char: u8, indent_size: usize) -> Writer<W>

Creates a Writer with configured whitespace indents from a generic Write

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pub fn into_inner(self) -> W

Consumes this Writer, returning the underlying writer.

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pub fn inner(&mut self) -> &mut W

Get inner writer, keeping ownership

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pub fn write_event<'a, E: AsRef<Event<'a>>>(&mut self, event: E) -> Result<()>

Writes the given event to the underlying writer.

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pub fn write(&mut self, value: &[u8]) -> Result<()>

Writes bytes

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pub fn write_indent(&mut self) -> Result<()>

Manually write a newline and indentation at the proper level.

This can be used when the heuristic to line break and indent after any Event apart from Text fails such as when a Start occurs directly after Text. This method will do nothing if Writer was not constructed with new_with_indent.

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pub fn create_element<'a, N>(&'a mut self, name: &'a N) -> ElementWriter<'_, W>where
N: 'a + AsRef<[u8]> + ?Sized,

Provides a simple, high-level API for writing XML elements.

Returns an ElementWriter that simplifies setting attributes and writing content inside the element.

Example

use quick_xml::{Error, Writer};
use quick_xml::events::{BytesStart, BytesText, Event};
use std::io::Cursor;

let mut writer = Writer::new(Cursor::new(Vec::new()));

// writes <tag attr1="value1"/>
writer.create_element("tag")
    .with_attribute(("attr1", "value1"))  // chain `with_attribute()` calls to add many attributes
    .write_empty()?;

// writes <tag attr1="value1" attr2="value2">with some text inside</tag>
writer.create_element("tag")
    .with_attributes(vec![("attr1", "value1"), ("attr2", "value2")].into_iter())  // or add attributes from an iterator
    .write_text_content(BytesText::from_plain_str("with some text inside"))?;

// writes <tag><fruit quantity="0">apple</fruit><fruit quantity="1">orange</fruit></tag>
writer.create_element("tag")
    .write_inner_content(|writer| {
        let fruits = ["apple", "orange"];
        for (quant, item) in fruits.iter().enumerate() {
            writer
                .create_element("fruit")
                .with_attribute(("quantity", quant.to_string().as_str()))
                .write_text_content(BytesText::from_plain_str(item))?;
        }
        Ok(())
    })?;