Erlang convert ejabberd XML structure to string

Question

The Erlang representation of my XML message is like the below:

{xmlel,<<"message">>,[{<<"xml:lang">>,<<"en">>},{<<"type">>,<<"chat">>},{<<"to">>,<<"x">>},{<<"id">>,<<"aaf6a">>}],[{xmlcdata,<<"\n">>},{xmlel,<<"body">>,[],[{xmlcdata,<<"wewe">>}]},{xmlcdata,<<"\n">>},{xmlel,<<"active">>,[{<<"xmlns">>,<<"http://jabber.org/protocol/chatstates">>}],[]},{xmlcdata,<<"\n">>},{xmlel,<<"time">>,[{<<"xmlns">>,<<"urn:server-time">>},{<<"stamp">>,"2015-06-23T22:48:24Z"}],[]}]}

How can I convert it into simple text format:

<message xmlns="jabber:client" type="chat" to="x" id="aaf6a">
<body>wewe</body>
<active xmlns="http://jabber.org/protocol/chatstates"/>
</message>

Mickaël Rémond Mickaël Rémond · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-24T07:44:49

You can use ejabberd xml:element_to_binary/1:

xml:element_to_binary({xmlel,<<"message">>,[{<<"xml:lang">>,<<"en">>},{<<"type">>,<<"chat">>},{<<"to">>,<<"x">>},{<<"id">>,<<"aaf6a">>}],[{xmlcdata,<<"\n">>},{xmlel,<<"body">>,[],[{xmlcdata,<<"wewe">>}]},{xmlcdata,<<"\n">>},{xmlel,<<"active">>,[{<<"xmlns">>,<<"http://jabber.org/protocol/chatstates">>}],[]},{xmlcdata,<<"\n">>},{xmlel,<<"time">>,[{<<"xmlns">>,<<"urn:server-time">>},{<<"stamp">>,"2015-06-23T22:48:24Z"}],[]}]}).

Erlang convert ejabberd XML structure to string

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