How can I respond in XML using ExpressJS?

Question

I have a simple code that gives a JSON response for a specific route. Here\'s my current code:

var express = require(\'express\')
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Answer 1

You can use any number of the XML libraries available on npm. Here's an example using the simply-named "xml" library:

var xml = require('xml');

response.set('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
response.send(xml(name_of_restaurants));

See the module's documentation for a description of how it converts JavaScript objects to XML. If you need things returned in a specific XML format, you'll have more work to do, of course.

Answer 2

As an update to this, it looks like res.type should be used instead as res.set does not give the same results.

res.type('application/xml');

More information can be found in the API reference.