Class

Wrapper class. Use this class to access the XPath functions.

Constants

A base Hash object, supposing to be used when initializing a default empty namespaces set, but is currently unused. TODO: either set the namespaces=EMPTY_HASH, or deprecate this.

Class Methods

Iterates over nodes that match the given path, calling the supplied block with the match.

element

The context element

path

The xpath to search for. If not supplied or nil, defaults to ‘*’

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.each( node ) { |el| ... }
XPath.each( node, '/*[@attr='v']' ) { |el| ... }
XPath.each( node, 'ancestor::x' ) { |el| ... }
XPath.each( node, '/book/publisher/text()=$publisher', {}, {"publisher"=>"O'Reilly"}) \
  {|el| ... }

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"})

Returns an array of nodes matching a given XPath.