Add writer for XML that can write out root nodes without attributes

3 files changed, 32 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/xml/writer.js b/lib/xml/writer.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e48f3a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/xml/writer.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+var xmlbuilder = require("xmlbuilder");
+
+
+exports.writeString = writeString;
+
+
+function writeString(root) {
+    return xmlbuilder
+        .create(root.name, {
+            version: '1.0',
+            encoding: 'UTF-8',
+            standalone: true
+        })
+        .end();
+}
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 67597b4..7e11c75 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@
     "lop": "~0.3.0",
     "async": "~0.2.6",
     "nomnom": "~1.6.2",
-    "jszip": "~2.5.0"
+    "jszip": "~2.5.0",
+    "xmlbuilder": "~2.6.4"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "mocha": "~2.1",
diff --git a/tests/xml/writer.tests.js b/tests/xml/writer.tests.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..020e638
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/xml/writer.tests.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+var assert = require("assert");
+
+var Element = require("../../lib/xml").Element;
+var writer = require("../../lib/xml/writer");
+var test = require("../testing").test;
+
+
+describe('xml.writer', function() {
+    test('writing empty root element writes out xml declaration and empty root element', function() {
+        assert.equal(writer.writeString(new Element("root")),
+            '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>' +
+            '<root/>');
+    });
+});
+