Option to extract attributes without 'attr' key, on element level

[11111000000]

i.e.

<SomeThing SomeAttr="VALUE">CONTENT</SomeThing>

=>

{
  SomeThing : {
    SomeAttr: "VALUE"
    _text: "CONTENT"
  }
}

instead of

{
  SomeThing : {
    _attrs: {
     SomeAttr: "VALUE"
   },
    _text: "CONTENT"
  }
}

or how to implement this effectively?

[11111000000]

maybe allow transformations like postPlaceFn: (key, ctx, default) => (key == '_attributes') ? ctx : ctx[key] or similar?

[sebafra]

Hi, is this implemented in the actual versión? attrsAsProps: true

[dsisk112]

Any updates on this?

[1mike12]

I created a quick and dirty PR to do this https://github.com/nashwaan/xml-js/pull/195

[plckr]

Would be great to see this implemented

[plckr]

I did some tests, and this seems to work 😮

xml2js(xml, {
  compact: true,
  alwaysArray: true,
  attributesFn: (attributes, parent) => {
    Object.assign(parent, attributes);
    return undefined;
  }
})

EDIT: Hmmm, maybe there's no data if the tag has no children 😕

[javadev]

<SomeThing SomeAttr="VALUE">CONTENT</SomeThing>

may be converted to json

{
  "SomeThing": {
    "-SomeAttr": "VALUE",
    "#text": "CONTENT"
  },
  "#omit-xml-declaration": "yes"
}

[kmturley]

Removing the attributes parent node would be useful for size reduction. In my case a json file goes:

• Before: 766 lines / 14KB
• After: 532 lines / 10KB