XPath::Node(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  XPath::Node(3pm)

NAME

       XML::XPath::Node - internal representation of a node

API

       The Node API aims to emulate DOM to some extent, however the API isn't quite compatible with DOM. This is to ease transition from XML::DOM
       programming to XML::XPath. Compatibility with DOM may arise once XML::DOM gets namespace support.

   new
       Creates a new node. See the sub-classes for parameters to pass to new().

   getNodeType
       Returns one of ELEMENT_NODE, TEXT_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, ATTRIBUTE_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE or NAMESPACE_NODE. UNKNOWN_NODE is
       returned if the sub-class doesn't implement getNodeType - but that means something is broken! The constants are exported by default from
       XML::XPath::Node. The constants have the same numeric value as the XML::DOM versions.

   getParentNode
       Returns the parent of this node, or undef if this is the root node. Note that the root node is the root node in terms of XPath - not the
       root element node.

   to_sax ( $handler | %handlers )
       Generates sax calls to the handler or handlers. See the PerlSAX docs for details (not yet implemented correctly).

MORE INFO

       See the sub-classes for the meaning of the rest of the API:

       o   XML::XPath::Node::Element

       o   XML::XPath::Node::Attribute

       o   XML::XPath::Node::Namespace

       o   XML::XPath::Node::Text

       o   XML::XPath::Node::Comment

       o   XML::XPath::Node::PI

perl v5.10.1							    2003-01-26							  XPath::Node(3pm)