Parsing XML with multi-line records

I'd like to take XML in the format below and load each code record into a domain object in my BootStrap.groovy. I want to preserve the formatting of each snippet of code.

XML

<records>
    <code>
        <language>Groovy</language>
        <snippet>
            println "This is Groovy"
            println "A very powerful language"
        </snippet>
    </code>
    <code>
        <language>Groovy</language>
        <snippet>
            3.times {
                println "hello"
            }
        </snippet>
    </code>
    <code>
        <language>Perl</language>
        <snippet>
            @foo = split(",");
        </snippet>
    </code>
</records>

Domain Object

Code {
    String language
    String snippet
}

BootStrap.groovy

new Code(language l, snippet: x).save()

From stackoverflow $pageUsers[$entry.posts[0].author].name

• roughly something like this:

  def CODE_XML = '''
  <records>
      <code>
          <language>Groovy</language>
          <snippet>
              println "This is Groovy"
              println "A very powerful language"
          </snippet>
      </code>
      <code>
          <language>Groovy</language>
          <snippet>
              3.times {
                  println "hello"
              }
          </snippet>
      </code>
      <code>
          <language>Perl</language>
          <snippet>
              @foo = split(",");
          </snippet>
      </code>
  </records>
    '''
  def records = new XmlParser().parseText(CODE_XML)
  records.code.each() { code ->
      new Code(language: code.language, snippet: code.snippet).save()
  }
  

  From mbrevoort

• If you can specity a DTD or similar and your XML parser obeys it, I think you can specify the contents of the snippet element to be CDATA and always get it as-is.

  From jfs

• Try adding xml:space="preserve" attribute to <snippet> elements.

  From porneL