Module: Libxml4r::XML::Document

Defined in:
lib/libxml4r.rb

Instance Method Summary (collapse)

Instance Method Details

- (Object) last=(node)

:call-seq:

doc.last = node -> XML::Node

Appends node to the end of the list of nodes at this level



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# File 'lib/libxml4r.rb', line 14

def last=(node)
  self.last? ? self.root.sibling=node : self.root = node
end

- (Object) node

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doc.node["/xpath"] -> XML::Node

Returns the first Node object matching "/xpath", or nil if no object could not be found.

Note its usually recommended to remove all namespaces with strip! before xpath traversal.



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# File 'lib/libxml4r.rb', line 24

def node()
  self.root.node()
end

- (Object) node_at(xpath)

:nodoc:



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# File 'lib/libxml4r.rb', line 28

def node_at(xpath) #:nodoc:
  self.root.node_at(xpath)
end

- (Object) nodes

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doc.nodes["/xpath"] -> [XML::Node, XML::Node, XML::Node, ...]

Returns an array containing all nodes matching "/xpath", or nil if no object could not be found.

Note its usually recommended to remove all namespaces with strip! before xpath traversal.



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# File 'lib/libxml4r.rb', line 38

def nodes()
  self.root.nodes()
end

- (Object) nodes_at(xpath)

:nodoc:



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# File 'lib/libxml4r.rb', line 42

def nodes_at(xpath) #:nodoc:
  self.root.search(xpath)
end

- (Object) strip! Also known as: strip_namespaces!

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doc.strip! -> XML::Document
doc.strip_namespaces! -> XML::Document

Strip all namespaces from this XML::Document. replaces the root node with a stripped XML::Node (and children)

Note Xml elements with a namespace context are usually omited from xpath search criteria.

See: libxml.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/LibXML/XML/XPath.html



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# File 'lib/libxml4r.rb', line 56

def strip!
  # Parse xml
  xml_str = self.to_s
  # puts "xml_str=#{xml_str}\\n"
  xml_str.gsub! /\ ?(soap|xmlns)(:\w*)?=\"[^\"]*\"/, ""
  xml_str.gsub! /\<\w*:/, "<"
  xml_str.gsub! /\<\/\w*:/, "</"
  # puts "xml_str=#{xml_str}\\n"
  xml_doc_stripped = xml_str.to_xmldoc
  self.root = xml_doc_stripped.root.copy(true)
  return self
end

- (Object) to_xml

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doc.to_xml -> String

Alias for XML::Document.to_s



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# File 'lib/libxml4r.rb', line 74

def to_xml
  return self.to_s
end