Groovy XmlSlurper appendNode of child content only

Question

I have the following xml object:

def slurper = new XmlSlurper()
def xmlObject = slurper.parseText("<root />")

def xmlObject2 = slurper.parseText("<root2><child1>hello</child1><child2>world</child2></root2>")

Now, the objective is to have the following XML format:

<root>
<root2>
<child1>hello</child1>
<child2>world</child2>
<root2>
</root>

If I use appendNode like this:

xmlObject.appendNode {
   root2(xmlObject2)
}

I would get:

<root>
<root2>
<root2>
<child1>hello</child1>
<child2>world</child2>
<root2>
<root2>
</root>

I would have 2 root2. How to appendNode of only the child content? Or appendNode without any tag name?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Why don't you just add the node as xmlObject.appendNode(xmlObject2)? Here is what I've come up with:

import groovy.xml.XmlUtil

def slurper = new XmlSlurper()
def xmlObject = slurper.parseText("<root />")

def xmlObject2 = slurper.parseText("<root2><child1>hello</child1><child2>world</child2></root2>")

xmlObject.appendNode(xmlObject2)

println XmlUtil.serialize(xmlObject)

It produces:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
  <root2>
    <child1>hello</child1>
    <child2>world</child2>
  </root2>
</root>

Looks like the result you wanted. I hope it helps.