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Make a copy of this object

Examples

c = CData.new( "Some text" )
d = c.clone
d.to_s        # -> "Some text"

Retrieves a named notation. Only notations declared in the internal DTD subset can be retrieved.

Method contributed by Henrik Martensson

Should be obvious

@return the XMLDecl encoding of this document as an Encoding object. If no XMLDecl has been set, returns the default encoding.

Creates a shallow copy of self.

d = Document.new "<a><b/><b/><c><d/></c></a>"
new_a = d.root.clone
puts new_a  # => "<a/>"

Get an array of all Comment children. IMMUTABLE

Inherited from Encoding Overridden to support optimized en/decoding

Finds and returns the first node that matches the supplied xpath.

element

The context element

path

The xpath to search for. If not supplied or nil, returns the first node matching ‘*’.

namespaces

If supplied, a Hash which defines a namespace mapping.

variables

If supplied, a Hash which maps $variables in the query to values. This can be used to avoid XPath injection attacks or to automatically handle escaping string values.

XPath.first( node )
XPath.first( doc, "//b"} )
XPath.first( node, "a/x:b", { "x"=>"http://doofus" } )
XPath.first( node, '/book/publisher/text()=$publisher', {}, {"publisher"=>"O'Reilly"})