[GROOVY-1178] Add a Utility Method for Converting GPathResults to XML

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-4
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.2, 1.8-beta-1
• Component/s: XML Processing
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Graeme Rocher
• Created: 08/Dec/05 04:26
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 19:12
• Resolved: 10/Mar/10 22:00

Description

At the moment to output a GPathResult as XML you have to use the below syntax in StreamingMarkupBuilder:

System.out << new StreamingMarkupBuilder().bind

{xml -> xml.mkp.yield myNode}

It is not clear what this is trying to achieve and to compound the problem the syntax differs between groovy scripts and classes. It would be better if there was a utility method to do this with a signature whose purpose is clear.