How to generate xml with innerxml tag?

[donnol]

like:

	type Code struct {
		Text  string `xml:",innerxml"`
        }

[miku]

Currently, one cannot specify an element name (e.g. Code) that should not be parsed further. What you can do is to edit the generated struct by hand and change elements to innerxml.

Potentially, we could have a flag to say which elements should not be descended into further - but then you may have ambiguity (if two elements with the same name appear on different levels of the XML). Similar to the reason, why we have not added type inference just yet: at some point there will be ambiguity and one goal of zek was to keep it (relatively) simple to use (we already have 19 flags).

[3052]

just ran into this. with this input:

<p>- Did you get me something to give her?<br/>- Yes, this.</p>

you get this result:

type P struct {
	XMLName xml.Name `xml:"p"`
	Text    string   `xml:",chardata"`
	Br      string   `xml:"br"`
} 

which strips the internal <br> element from the text. maybe the code could include a comment, something like:

type P struct {
	XMLName xml.Name `xml:"p"`
	Text    string   `xml:",chardata"` // or innerxml
	Br      string   `xml:"br"`
} 

[miku]

Thanks for the issue report.

I added a new flag -I to zek to change the tag generated (default is still chardata) - you'll find it in v0.1.24. Example:

$ cat testdata/w.16.xml
<!-- https://github.com/miku/zek/issues/29#issuecomment-2001630625 -->
<p>- Did you get me something to give her?<br/>- Yes, this.</p>

$ zek -I < testdata/w.16.xml 
// P was generated 2024-03-16 11:52:25 by tir on reka with zek 0.1.24.
type P struct {
        XMLName xml.Name `xml:"p"`
        Text    string   `xml:",innerxml"`
        Br      string   `xml:"br"`
} 

This is a tradeoff: simple flag, but no fine-granular control.