Method: Nokogiri::XML::Node#child

Defined in:

ext/nokogiri/xml_node.c

#child ⇒ Object

:call-seq: child() → Nokogiri::XML::Node

:category: Traversing Document Structure

Returns

First of this node’s children, or nil if there are no children

This is a convenience method and is equivalent to:

node.children.first

See related: #children

# File 'ext/nokogiri/xml_node.c', line 688

static VALUE
rb_xml_node_child(VALUE self)
{
  xmlNodePtr node, child;
  Noko_Node_Get_Struct(self, xmlNode, node);

  child = node->children;
  if (!child) { return Qnil; }

  return noko_xml_node_wrap(Qnil, child);
}