xml::xpath::node(3) [osx man page]

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

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 v5.16.2							    2003-01-26							    XPath::Node(3)

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)