parse5 VS xml2js

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A relatively stable option would probably be to just use puppeteer directly to spawn a headless chrome, and extract the html that way. If you want to parse the html, I recommend feeding that into parse5.

After some googling, I landed on parse5 which appeared to have wide usage and offered a simple, low-level tree API at its core.

We do not use existing open-source solutions such as parse5 for two reasons:

xml2js to convert XML returns into JSONs.

This library was inspired by node-xml2js and has a primary objective of maintaining parity with its 0.4.20 version.

I tried the ever so popular xml2js which seemed easy in the conversion from XML to JSON:

In our case, we'll need a simple library to read the WSDL XML file into something a bit easier to work with. We'll use xml2js.

Here it says there's a parseString.