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DEPRECATED

See REXML::Formatters

indent

Ignored. There must be no whitespace before an XML declaration

transitive

Ignored

ie_hack

Ignored

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"})

Performs a depth-first (document order) XPath search, and returns the first match. This is the fastest, lightest way to return a single result.

FIXME: This method is incomplete!

Adds tuple to the proxied TupleSpace. See TupleSpace#write.

Returns the first advertised TupleSpace.

Finds a live tuple that matches template.

Adds tuple

Whether this specification is stubbed - i.e. we have information about the gem from a stub line, without having to evaluate the entire gemspec file.

True if long begins with the characters from short.