{"id":2922,"date":"2016-03-19T06:21:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T06:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericwhite.com\/home2\/bm8qcmjy\/public_html\/blog\/?page_id=2922"},"modified":"2016-03-19T06:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T06:40:22","slug":"new-open-source-project-linq-to-xml-for-javascript","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ericwhite.com\/blog\/new-open-source-project-linq-to-xml-for-javascript\/","title":{"rendered":"New Open Source Project: LINQ to XML for JavaScript"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, I\u2019m very pleased to announce the release on CodePlex (at ltxmljs.codeplex.com<\/a>) of the first release of an XML processing library for JavaScript that is inspired by and largely similar to the LINQ to XML library for .NET.\u00a0 One of the most fantastic benefits of LINQ to XML is the expressive way that you can write code to create and transform XML.\u00a0 The powerful idioms that you can use in LINQ to XML make tough XML processing problems much easier.\u00a0 In general, this was my motivation to develop this project.<\/p>\n

More specifically, over the years, I have written thousands of lines of LINQ to XML code to create and modify Open XML documents.\u00a0 I have been working on a project that requires that I implement some interesting Open XML functionality in JavaScript.\u00a0 In order to implement this project in the most efficient manner, I wrote this small JavaScript library that enabled me to, with a minimum of editing, convert a large amount of existing C# code to JavaScript.\u00a0 I have already translated some pretty complex code and it works well.\u00a0 In the future, I am going to translate some of the most popular modules from PowerTools for Open XML<\/a> into JavaScript, and then we\u2019ll see some powerful ways to build web applications that create, transform, query, and view Open XML documents.\u00a0 This is going to be fun!<\/p>\n

This enables web applications of any variety to more easily add Open XML functionality.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter if your web application is written in PHP, Ruby, Java, C, ASP.NET, legacy ASP, Cold Fusion, or 8080A assembler.\u00a0 If you can serve up JavaScript to the browser, you can add Open XML functionality into your application:<\/p>\n