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Add new XML attribute for an Element

Recipe IDorg.openrewrite.xml.AddTagAttribute
Artifactorg.openrewrite:rewrite-xml

Add new XML attribute with value on a specified element.

Single recipeApache 2.0

Usage

You’ll need the Moderne CLI configured before running the command below.

mod run . --recipe org.openrewrite.xml.AddTagAttribute --recipe-option "elementName=//beans/bean" --recipe-option "attributeName=attribute-name" --recipe-option "newValue=value-to-add"

If the recipe isn’t available locally, install it with:

mod config recipes jar install org.openrewrite:rewrite-xml:8.88.0

Options

NameTypeDescription
elementNamerequiredStringThe name of the element whose attribute's value is to be added. Interpreted as an XPath expression.
e.g. //beans/bean
attributeNamerequiredStringThe name of the new attribute.
e.g. attribute-name
newValuerequiredStringThe new value to be used for key specified by attributeName.
e.g. value-to-add

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Structured output this recipe can produce.

  • Source files that had resultsSource files that were modified by the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults
  • Source files that had search resultsSearch results that were found during the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults
  • Source files that errored on a recipeThe details of all errors produced by a recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors
  • Recipe performanceStatistics used in analyzing the performance of recipes.org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats