HTML::Selector::XPath(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				HTML::Selector::XPath(3pm)

NAME

       HTML::Selector::XPath - CSS Selector to XPath compiler

SYNOPSIS

	 use HTML::Selector::XPath;

	 my $selector = HTML::Selector::XPath->new("li#main");
	 $selector->to_xpath; # //li[@id='main']

	 # functional interface
	 use HTML::Selector::XPath 'selector_to_xpath';
	 my $xpath = selector_to_xpath('div.foo');

	 my $relative = selector_to_xpath('div.foo', root => '/html/body/p' );
	 # /html/body/p/div[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' foo ')]

	 my $relative = selector_to_xpath('div:root', root => '/html/body/p' );
	 # /html/body/p/div

DESCRIPTION

       HTML::Selector::XPath is a utility function to compile full set of CSS2 and partial CSS3 selectors to the equivalent XPath expression.

FUNCTIONS and METHODS
       selector_to_xpath
	     $xpath = selector_to_xpath($selector, %options);

	   Shortcut for "HTML::Selector->new(shift)->to_xpath(@_)". Exported upon request.

       new
	     $sel = HTML::Selector::XPath->new($selector, %options);

	   Creates a new object.

       to_xpath
	     $xpath = $sel->to_xpath;
	     $xpath = $sel->to_xpath(root => "."); # ./foo instead of //foo

	   Returns the translated XPath expression. You can optionally pass "root" parameter, to specify which root to start the expression. It
	   defaults to "/".

	   The optional "prefix" option allows you to specify a namespace prefix for the generated XPath expression.

SUBCLASSING NOTES

       parse_pseudo
	   This method is called during xpath construction when we encounter a pseudo selector (something that begins with comma). It is passed
	   the selector and a reference to the string we are parsing. It should return one or more xpath sub-expressions to add to the parts if
	   the selector is handled, otherwise return an empty list.

CAVEATS

   CSS SELECTOR VALIDATION
       This module doesn't validate whether the original CSS Selector expression is valid. For example,

	 div.123foo

       is an invalid CSS selector (class names should not begin with numbers), but this module ignores that and tries to generate an equivalent
       XPath expression anyway.

COPYRIGHT

       Tatsuhiko Miyagawa 2006-2011

       Max Maischein 2011-

AUTHOR

       Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

       Most of the logic is based on Joe Hewitt's getElementsBySelector.js on http://www.joehewitt.com/blog/2006-03-20.php
       <http://www.joehewitt.com/blog/2006-03-20.php> and Andrew Dupont's patch to Prototype.js on <http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5171>, but
       slightly modified using Aristotle Pegaltzis' CSS to XPath translation table per <http://plasmasturm.org/log/444/>

       Also see

       http://www.mail-archive.com/www-archive@w3.org/msg00906.html <http://www.mail-archive.com/www-archive@w3.org/msg00906.html>

       and

       http://kilianvalkhof.com/2008/css-xhtml/the-css3-not-selector/ <http://kilianvalkhof.com/2008/css-xhtml/the-css3-not-selector/>

LICENSE

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html> <http://use.perl.org/~miyagawa/journal/31090>

perl v5.14.2							    2012-01-16						HTML::Selector::XPath(3pm)