XPath(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation XPath(3pm)
NAME
XML::DOM::XPath - Perl extension to add XPath support to XML::DOM, using XML::XPath engine
SYNOPSIS
use XML::DOM::XPath;
my $parser= XML::DOM::Parser->new();
my $doc = $parser->parsefile ("file.xml");
# print all HREF attributes of all CODEBASE elements
# compare with the XML::DOM version to see how much easier it is to use
my @nodes = $doc->findnodes( '//CODEBASE[@HREF]/@HREF');
print $_->getValue, "
" foreach (@nodes);
DESCRIPTION
XML::DOM::XPath allows you to use XML::XPath methods to query a DOM. This is often much easier than relying only on getElementsByTagName.
It lets you use all of the XML::DOM methods.
METHODS
Those methods can be applied to a whole dom object or to a node.
findnodes($path)
return a list of nodes found by $path.
findnodes_as_string($path)
return the nodes found reproduced as XML. The result is not guaranteed to be valid XML though.
findvalue($path)
return the concatenation of the text content of the result nodes
exists($path)
return true if the given path exists.
matches($path)
return true if the node matches the path.
SEE ALSO
XML::DOM
XML::XPathEngine
AUTHOR
Michel Rodriguez, mirod@cpan.org
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2003 by Michel Rodriguez
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.8.8 2008-04-14 XPath(3pm)
