A predicate filters a node-set with respect to an axis to produce a new node-set. For each node in the node-set to be filtered, the PredicateExpr is evaluated with that node as the context node, with the number of nodes in the node-set as the context size, and with the proximity position of the node in the node-set with respect to the axis as the context position; if PredicateExpr evaluates to true for that node, the node is included in the new node-set; otherwise, it is not included.
A PredicateExpr is evaluated by evaluating the Expr and converting the result to a boolean. If the result is a number, the result will be converted to true if the number is equal to the context position and will be converted to false otherwise; if the result is not a number, then the result will be converted as if by a call to the boolean function. Thus a location path para is equivalent to para.
Returns the number of enumerated Enumerable
objects, i.e. the size of each row.
Returns an array of nodes matching a given XPath
.
Matches this template against tuple
. The tuple
must be the same size as the template. An element with a nil
value in a template acts as a wildcard, matching any value in the corresponding position in the tuple. Elements of the template match the tuple
if the are ==
or ===
.
Template.new([:foo, 5]).match Tuple.new([:foo, 5]) # => true Template.new([:foo, nil]).match Tuple.new([:foo, 5]) # => true Template.new([String]).match Tuple.new(['hello']) # => true Template.new([:foo]).match Tuple.new([:foo, 5]) # => false Template.new([:foo, 6]).match Tuple.new([:foo, 5]) # => false Template.new([:foo, nil]).match Tuple.new([:foo]) # => false Template.new([:foo, 6]).match Tuple.new([:foo]) # => false
Matches this TemplateEntry
against tuple
. See Template#match
for details on how a Template
matches a Tuple
.