Using angular template engine to generate xml

[Miguel Ping]

I'd like to use angular's template engine to generate some xml documents.

Is it possible to use the template engine "standalone" to generate a string? Something along these lines:

1. <script type="text/ng-template" id="/xml.html">
1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   
2. <node1 ..>
1. <Row ng-repeat="data in items">
   
1. <Item>{{data}}</Item>
2. </Row>
3. </node1>
2. </script>

Then, I would just need to invoke it within a service:

...['$some_unknown_dep', function(templateEngine)(){

var str = templateEngine.render('/xml.html', {items: [1,2,3]});

$http.post(..., str, ...)

}]);

Yeah, POSTing JSON would be easier, but it's not my service :\

Thanks!

[Miguel Ping]

Here's a fiddle of what I am trying to achieve: http://jsfiddle.net/r3Ykr/

[Miguel Ping]

I got a version working, although I still can't use $templateCache: http://jsfiddle.net/r3Ykr/2/

[Pawel Kozlowski]

Miguel,

AngularJS is _not_ a templating engine so using it to generate XML has
limited benefit, IMO.
What is your use case?

Cheers,
Pawel

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[Miguel Ping]

Hi Pawel,

I know angular is not a templating engine and that I would be better off with mustache, underscore, handlebars or whatever.

I just want to use the ng-repeats and data-binding to generate a xml document. The xml is simple enough to use just ng-repeats, ng-switchs and so on.

My use case is the following: I need to POST a url with some xml data (I do not own this service); the xml will be fed with data from a $scope.

In order to construct the xml, I am evaluating the unorthodox way of using angular's services to build it, just for the sake of it.

Anyway I learn a little more of angular's internals by doing these kinds of 'exercises'.

Thanks.

[NV]

Hi Miguel,

Have you had any luck with this or abandoned it?

[Olga Szklarska]

Hi,

just by pure concidence I found Your posts. For the purpose of my project, I have created this simple stuff:

https://github.com/helgadeville/XMLTemplater

Greetingz.