Create a text node from xml directly

[BenjaminGalliot]

Hello,

I would like to know how to create a TextNode directly from an XML string.
I did not find at all a way to do this: I get a whole Document or entities in my TextNode, it seems difficult or impossible to create a TextNode from a rich text string. A parsexml function which can return a TextNode (not only a Document) or an argument to specify to TextNode(content) that content is raw XML seem nice solutions.

I don't even find a workaround to insert inside a node text and other nodes from a rich text string.

For example:

using EzXML

text = """A <tag>simple</tag> word and a more <tag att="val">complex</tag> one."""

# Best expected way
# returns XMLError: Start tag expected, '<' not found from XML parser (code: 4, line: 1)
result_1 = parsexml(text)

# Another good way
# returns A &lt;tag&gt;simple&lt;/tag&gt; word and a more &lt;tag att="val"&gt;complex&lt;/tag&gt; one.
# it is expected but not the goal, an argument like "raw" would be nice.
result_2 = TextNode(text)

# Current step
# returns <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><fake_tag>A <tag>simple</tag> word and a more <tag att="val">complex</tag> one.</fake_tag>
# but this is an EzXML.Document, not a TextNode, and the need to add fake tags around is messy (need to retrieve the tag of the parent…).
result_3 = parsexml("<fake_tag>" * text * "</fake_tag>")

Thank you.

[bicycle1885]

Can you post a question at https://discourse.julialang.org/? The issue tracker is for issue tracking and not for questions. Mention me if you need my attention.