Have you tested it with ?

I spent quite sometime trying to make work xml libs and the best solution I could get was using a pod that embeds hickory - it does the job but I would prefer something a bit simpler

I haven't, no.

ok, I'll have to give it a try, thank you for the info.

I think riveted wraps a pure-java library, so it might be feasible with babashka!

https://github.com/dryade/vtd-xml

Actually, one of those two mentions was by @U04V15CAJ so maybe it's already supported?.. :)

I've used riveted at my old job :) It does not work with babashka since it depends on a Java library: com.ximpleware/vtd-xml that is not built into bb. bb only supports running clojure sources and a selection of built-in Java classes

But, IIUC, it should be possible to make it work via a pod?

that would perhaps work yes

babashka bundles clojure.data.xml

Here is an example of parsing some XML and using zippers: https://github.com/babashka/babashka/blob/master/examples/pom_version_get_xml_zip.clj Here is one without zippers: https://github.com/babashka/babashka/blob/master/examples/pom_version_get.clj