nxml-rs

nxml-rs is a Rust rewrite of NXML.

NXML is a pseudo-XML parser that can read and write the oddly formatted and often invalid XML files from Noita. NXML (the C#/.NET version linked before) is itself a port of the XML parser from Poro, which is used by the custom Falling Everything engine on which Noita runs.

In short, nxml-rs is an XML parser that is 100% equivalent to Noita's parser. It is just as non-conformant to the XML specification as Noita itself. It can also produce semantically equivalent output in the form of a string.

Additionally (just for fun), nxml-rs provides an nxml! macro that allows you to create nxml elements by writing almost-XML (text content requires some extra characters and is generally poorly supported and not really used by Noita anyway) directly in your Rust code.

Because it's Rust and thus it was relatively easy to do, the parsing is almost zero-copy - a single exception being non-continuous bare text, <a>hello<b/>world</a>, which is non-existingly rare and is a preserved quirk of how noita parser handles that anyway, handled with Cow.

Example

use nxml_rs::*;

// Element::parse_* is a shortcut for ElementRef::parse_* followed by into_owned
let (mut entity, _errors) = Element::parse_lenient(r#"
    <Entity>
        <LuaComponent
            script_source_file="mods/blah/etc/test.lua"
            execute_every_n_frame="-1">
        </LuaComponent>
        <TestComponent blah="blah" />
    </Entity>
"#);

// Some sugar, >> is alias for .child("name").unwrap(), and << is same for .attr
assert_eq!("-1", &entity >> "LuaComponent" << "execute_every_n_frame");

let a_lot = 0;
let speed = 0;

// make a new element through the builder
let extra = Element::new("ElectricityComponent")
    .with_attr("energy", a_lot)
    .with_attr("probability_to_heat", "0")
    .with_attr("speed", speed);

// or use the macro
let extra = nxml! {
    <ElectricityComponent energy={a_lot} probability_to_heat="0" {speed} />
};

// A modification - entity.children is just a vec ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
entity.children.insert(1, extra);

assert_eq!(entity.to_string(), r#"
<Entity>
    <LuaComponent script_source_file="mods/blah/etc/test.lua" execute_every_n_frame="-1"/>
    <ElectricityComponent energy="0" probability_to_heat="0" speed="0"/>
    <TestComponent blah="blah"/>
</Entity>
"#.trim());

Cargo features

• indexmap - Use IndexMap from the indexmap crate instead of HashMap for attributes. This is useful if you want to preserve the order of attributes in the output. Enabled by default, you can disable it to shake off that one dependency if you don't care about attrubute order.