Parse multiple attributes with the same name

First of all, excellent package.

I’d like to request a feature for parsing a tag with several attributes that share the same name. I don’t think it’s valid XML, but it’s a real use case and I need to parse this… Currently, the package returns only the last attribute value. It would be great if it returned an array with the values, in the order they appear.

For example:

const xml = '<p foo="bar" foo="baz"></p>';

var fastXmlParser = require("fast-xml-parser");
var parsedXml = fastXmlParser.parse(xml, {
    ignoreAttributes: false
});

console.log(parsedXml);

This returns an object containing @_foo with value "baz". It would be awesome if it returned ["bar", "baz"] and simply "bar" if only the first attribute is present.

Hope to get some help. Thank You!

[amitguptagwl]

ok. So I’m assuming that API owner can’t modify their API. I may guide you to form this repo and do necessary changes. However, it’ll be an overhead to maintain the separate repo and merging any future change.

[amitguptagwl]

@hdodov Having any feature means compromising with performance. Though I don’t think it’ll be much impacting after having this feature. But I was wondering if we should implement the features for individual cases.

For instance, in your case, you can modify the XMLs (I’m assuming they’ve already generated) using regex. The only reason I’m avoiding the code change as this is one time required feature. You’ll not even need this feature once all the generated XMLs are processed.