Appending and prepending to XML files with Clojure
- by Isaac Copper
I have an XML file with format similar to:
<root>
<baby>
<a>stuff</a>
<b>stuff</b>
<c>stuff</c>
</baby>
...
<baby>
<a>stuff</a>
<b>stuff</b>
<c>stuff</c>
</baby>
</root>
And a Clojure hash-map similar to:
{:a "More stuff" :b "Some other stuff" :c "Yet more of that stuff"}
And I'd like to prepend XML (¶) created from this hash-map after the <root> tag and before the first <baby>
(¶) The XML to prepend would be like:
<baby>
<a>More stuff</a>
<b>Some other stuff</b>
<c>Yet more of that stuff</c>
</baby>
I'd also like to be able to delete the last one (or n...) <baby>...</baby>s from the file.
I'm struggling with coming up with an idiomatic was to prepend and append this data. I can do raw string manipulations, or parse the XML using xml/parse and xml-seq and then roll through the nodes and (somehow?) replace the data there, but that seems messy.
Any tips? Ideas? Hints? Pointers? They'd all be much appreciated.
Thank you!
