Programming Groovy 2

Part II. Using Groovy

CHAPTER 8. Working with XML

8.1. Parsing XML

Using XMLSlurper

http://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/gapi/groovy/util/XmlSlurper.html

WorkingWithXML/UsingXMLSlurper.groovy

languages = new XmlSlurper().parse('languages.xml')
println "Languages and authors"

languages.language.each {
    println "${it.@name} authored by ${it.author[0].text()}"
}

def languagesByAuthor = { authorName ->
    languages.language.findAll { it.author[0].text() == authorName }.collect {
        it.@name }.join(', ')
}
println "Languages by Wirth:" + languagesByAuthor('Wirth')