Easier way to get raw xml?

[jmarkel44]

Is there a simpler way to capture the raw xml data from an element?

For example:

eiEvent := evt.FindElement(".//eiEvent" + eiFilter)
.
.
.
rawXML := etree.NewDocumentWithRoot(eiEvent)
ev.RawXML, _ = rawXML.WriteToString() // this will remove the event from the orig doc 

eiEvent.Text() doesn't seem to return anything. Just trying to store the blob data for that particular element.

Thanks

[beevik]

The Text() function returns the character data after an XML element's opening tag and before the next XML tag. There are two cases to consider. I suspect your case is the second case.

Case 1. Consider the following XML document:

<doc>
  <eiEvent>description</eiEvent>
</doc>

In this case, Text() will return "description".

Case 2. Now consider this document:

<doc>
  <eiEvent>
    <data>description</data>
  </eiEvent>
</doc>

In this case, Text() returns the whitespace between <eiEvent> and <data>.

If the XML between an element's opening tag (<eiEvent>) and closing tag (</eiEvent>) contains tokens other than just character data, then you'll need to reserialize the element's children the way you've done it.