xml <-> javascript中的html转换

Question

What javascript framework/library may you advice if I want to convert HTML to XML and vice versa, by a set of rules?

eg

<a type="foo">
  <b>bar<sth x="42"/></b>
</a>

to

<div class="a type-foo">
    <div class="b">bar<span class="sth">42</span></div>
</div>

I used to traverse DOM by JQuery and build everything manually - lot of functions for every possible tag. What is a shorter solution? Eg I want to say " <a> converts to <div class="a"> " etc. and then run something like htmlToXml() or xmlToHtml() .

Answer 1

if your HTML is a valid XHTML you can write an XSL transformation and apply it with javascript. Take a look here: http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_client.asp