Parsing section of XML file

Question

My xml is like this:

<rootnode>
   <child name="tony">
   ...
   </child>
   <child name="antho">
   ...
   </child>
</rootnode>

I want to be able to output the xml element for child tony verbatim. I can find this element using XmlSlurper but then I am left with an object represent, I just want the XML verbatim. How do I do that?

   <child name="tony">
   ...
   </child>

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 11 '17 at 10:50

Check the answer to this question: Load, modify, and write an XML document in Groovy

In short, it seems the simple solution is to read xml with XmlSlurper and write with XmlUtil:

def xml = new XmlSlurper().parse(xmlString)
def prettyXmlNode = XmlUtil.serialize(xml)

Parsing section of XML file

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