local xml2lua = require("xml2lua")
--Uses a handler that converts the XML to a Lua table
local handler = require("xmlhandler.tree")

local xml = [[
<people>
  <person type="natural">
    <name>Manoel</name>
    <city>Palmas-TO</city>
  </person>
  <person type="legal">
    <name>University of Brasília</name>
    <city>Brasília-DF</city>
  </person>
</people>
]]

--Instantiates the XML parser
local parser = xml2lua.parser(handler)
parser:parse(xml)

--Manually prints the table (since the XML structure for this example is previously known)
for i, p in pairs(handler.root.people.person) do
  print(i, "Name:", p.name, "City:", p.city, "Type:", p._attr.type)
end

local xml2lua = require("xml2lua")
local people = {
    person = {
        {name="Manoel", city="Palmas-TO", _attr={ type='natural' } },
        {name="Breno", city="Palmas-TO", _attr={ type='legal' } }
    }
}

print("People Table\n")
xml2lua.printable(people)

print()
print("XML Representation\n")
print(xml2lua.toXml(people, "people"))