I want to response this using node.js and express:

<set id="1" state="0" name="wd"/>

I tried:

xml = require('xml');

res.set('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
res.send(xml('<set id="1" state="0" name="wd"/>'));

But in Wireshark i see that my response looks:

<set id="1" state="0" name="wd"/>

How to send my xml correctly?

I want to response this using node.js and express:

<set id="1" state="0" name="wd"/>

I tried:

xml = require('xml');

res.set('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
res.send(xml('<set id="1" state="0" name="wd"/>'));

But in Wireshark i see that my response looks:

<set id="1" state="0" name="wd"/>

How to send my xml correctly?

• javascript
• node.js
• xml
• express

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xml package converts JS objects to xml (and you are passing a stringified xml). Not what you need. You need to parse the string containing xml to get actual xml data using libxmljs.

I would try this:

const libxmljs = require("libxmljs");


let stringifiedXml = '<set id="1" state="0" name="wd"/>';
let xmlDoc = libxmljs.parseXml(stringifiedXml);

res.set('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
res.send(xmlDoc);

Try removing xml() function. If you set Content-type, the server would send response as xml.

In ExpressJs Simply add the content-type and send a valid XML document as the xmlContent

response.type('application/xml')
response.send(xmlContent)