2022 03 19 Use xmlBuilder2 instead of xmlBuilder

Use xmlBuilder2 instead of xmlBuilder

• Status: accepted
• Date: 2022-03-19

Technical Story: #269

Context and Problem Statement

xmlBuilder is not maintained anymore. It does not benefit from language improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades

Decision Drivers

• Security: we need to rely on regularly updated library against security issue
• Stability: we need to rely on stable library

Considered Options

• xmlBuilder2
• fast-xml-parser

Decision Outcome

Chosen option: "xmlBuilder2", because the refactoring is straight forward and easy.

Positive Consequences

• We rely on a maintained library

Negative Consequences

• We still have two libraries to deal with XML

Pros and Cons of the Options

xmlBuilder2

• Good, because easy to migrate from xmlBuilder
• Good, because maintained
• Bad, because 2 libraries to deal with xml
• Bad, because slow library

fast-xml-parser

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• Good, One library to deal with xml
• Good, fastest library
• Bad, because needs a lot of refactoring in packageConstructor.js