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What's the "state-of-the-art" way to generate a simple XML file with Kotlin? Is it to use KxS with <...
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v
What's the "state-of-the-art" way to generate a simple XML file with Kotlin? Is it to use KxS with https://github.com/pdvrieze/xmlutil, or is there something else, for example like the 
MarkupBuilder
in Groovy? Kotlin version is 1.7.10, as it is for a Gradle 7.6 supporting plugin.
h
I regularly use xmlutil but honestly it takes some time to understand its API.
v
Trying it right now, just have to find which version still supports 1.7.10. Latest is compiled with 1.9
Do you know a way to make a list serialized with tags in a parent tag without specifying the child tag names? I'd like to have the child tag name configured at the child type. But the only way I found to make them rendered in a parent tag is 
XmlChildrenName
which forces to give the child name. Besides that it is a strange side-effect, that it causes a wrapping tag to be used.
h
Can you provide a sample of your xml you want to produce?
v
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<foo>
    <bar>
        <baz bam="bam1"/>
        <baz bam="bam2"/>
    </bar
</foo>
Foo
has a list of 
Baz
. I specify 
@SerialName("baz")
on 
Baz
. But I do not see how to make it wrapped in 
bar
without using 
@XmlChildrenName
where I have to specify 
baz
again.
h
Hm, I just used the lazy workaround and created another class Bar containing a list of 
Baz
.
v
Hm, yeah, that's one possibility, thanks, but such an unnecessary indirection 😄
And how do I set an xml ns on the root node without any prefix? Using the default value for the prefix results in an empty 
xmlns
attribute and a prefix for the intended namespace. 😕
Ah, just not using 
XmlSerialName
but having a property called 
xmlns
hackyyy
Hm, no, that only works properly with 
encodeToString
, but not with 
encodeToWriter
. 😞
Ah, there it works with using 
XmlSerialName
😒
h
Yes, you have to use XmlSerialName everywhere...
v
No, just on the root element seems to be enough
h
It depends on your xml, if you want to use different namespaces, I tried a mix of 
SerialName
and 
XmlSerialName
and choose the latter, otherwise the namespaces were wrong. Anyway, we use it only for automatic soap api generating.
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