From 32e4e2614ae9211f69fa915188f0523be89559c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Snorre Ettrup Altschul <snorre@altschul.dk>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 01:20:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added toXml function

---
 lib/default.nix  | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/from_xml.nix |  7 -------
 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/default.nix
 delete mode 100644 lib/from_xml.nix

diff --git a/lib/default.nix b/lib/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d2bd15e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{nixpkgs, ...}:
+nixpkgs.lib.extend (
+  final: prev: {
+    toXMLGeneric = let
+      toXMLRecursive =
+        toXmlRecursive'
+        "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>";
+
+      toXmlRecursive' = str: xml: let
+        parseTag = str: xml: (builtins.concatStringsSep "" [
+          str
+          "\n"
+          "<${xml.name}"
+
+          (
+            if (builtins.hasAttr "properties" xml)
+            then
+              (" "
+                + builtins.concatStringsSep " " (nixpkgs.lib.attrsets.mapAttrsToList
+                  (name: value: "${name}=\"${nixpkgs.lib.strings.escapeXML value}\"")
+                  xml.properties))
+            else ""
+          )
+
+          (
+            if builtins.hasAttr "content" xml
+            then ((toXmlRecursive' "" xml.content) + "\n</${xml.name}>")
+            else "/>"
+          )
+        ]);
+        output =
+          if (builtins.isAttrs xml)
+          then (parseTag str xml)
+          else if (builtins.isList xml)
+          then (builtins.concatStringsSep "\n" (builtins.map (x: (toXmlRecursive' "" x)) xml))
+          else if ((builtins.isBool xml) || (builtins.isInt xml) || (builtins.isNull xml) || (builtins.isFloat xml))
+          then (builtins.toString xml)
+          else nixpkgs.lib.abort "Cannot convert a ${builtins.typeOf xml} to XML";
+      in
+        output;
+    in
+      toXMLRecursive;
+  }
+)
diff --git a/lib/from_xml.nix b/lib/from_xml.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index a2a00f5..0000000
--- a/lib/from_xml.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-{nixpkgs, ...}:
-nixpkgs.lib.extend (
-  final: prev: {
-    fromXml = {
-    };
-  }
-)