A comprehensive guide to using Erlang's xmerl library in Elixir for XML document manipulation. Covers parsing XML strings to xmlElement records, defining necessary record types, traversing and updating XML elements, and exporting back to strings. Includes practical examples of finding elements by ID, modifying attributes, and working with numerical values in XML attributes. Demonstrates the complete workflow through an SVG manipulation example that changes colors and resizes elements.
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# Step 1: add :xmerl to your project# Step 2: add record definitions# Step 3: parse a string to xmlElement# Step 4: export the xmlElement back to a string# Step 5: modify the document# Example repository# What could be improved?Sort: