| Class | REXML::Elements |
| In: |
temp/element.rb
|
| Parent: | Object |
Fetches a child element. Filters only Element children, regardless of the XPath match.
| index: | the search parameter. This is either an Integer, which will be used to find the index‘th child Element, or an XPath, which will be used to search for the Element. Because of the nature of XPath searches, any element in the connected XML document can be fetched through any other element. The Integer index is 1-based, not 0-based. This means that the first child element is at index 1, not 0, and the +n+th element is at index n, not n-1. This is because XPath indexes element children starting from 1, not 0, and the indexes should be the same. |
| name: | optional, and only used in the first argument is an Integer. In that case, the index‘th child Element that has the supplied name will be returned. Note again that the indexes start at 1. |
| Returns: | the first matching Element, or nil if no child matched |
doc = Document.new '<a><b/><c id="1"/><c id="2"/><d/></a>' doc.root.elements[1] #-> <b/> doc.root.elements['c'] #-> <c id="1"/> doc.root.elements[2,'c'] #-> <c id="2"/>
Sets an element, replacing any previous matching element. If no existing element is found ,the element is added.
| index: | Used to find a matching element to replace. See [](). |
| element: | The element to replace the existing element with the previous element |
| Returns: | nil if no previous element was found. |
doc = Document.new '<a/>'
doc.root.elements[10] = Element.new('b') #-> <a><b/></a>
doc.root.elements[1] #-> <b/>
doc.root.elements[1] = Element.new('c') #-> <a><c/></a>
doc.root.elements['c'] = Element.new('d') #-> <a><d/></a>
Adds an element
| element: | if supplied, is either an Element, String, or Source (see Element.initialize). If not supplied or nil, a new, default Element will be constructed |
| Returns: | the added Element |
a = Element.new('a')
a.elements.add(Element.new('b')) #-> <a><b/></a>
a.elements.add('c') #-> <a><b/><c/></a>
Deletes a child Element
| element: | Either an Element, which is removed directly; an xpath, where the first matching child is removed; or an Integer, where the n‘th Element is removed. |
| Returns: | the removed child |
doc = Document.new '<a><b/><c/><c id="1"/></a>'
b = doc.root.elements[1]
doc.root.elements.delete b #-> <a><c/><c id="1"/></a>
doc.elements.delete("a/c[@id='1']") #-> <a><c/></a>
doc.root.elements.delete 1 #-> <a/>
Removes multiple elements. Filters for Element children, regardless of XPath matching.
| xpath: | all elements matching this String path are removed. |
| Returns: | an Array of Elements that have been removed |
doc = Document.new '<a><c/><c/><c/><c/></a>' deleted = doc.elements.delete_all 'a/c' #-> [<c/>, <c/>, <c/>, <c/>]
Iterates through all of the child Elements, optionally filtering them by a given XPath
| xpath: | optional. If supplied, this is a String XPath, and is used to filter the children, so that only matching children are yielded. Note that XPaths are automatically filtered for Elements, so that non-Element children will not be yielded |
doc = Document.new '<a><b/><c/><d/>sean<b/><c/><d/></a>'
doc.root.each {|e|p e} #-> Yields b, c, d, b, c, d elements
doc.root.each('b') {|e|p e} #-> Yields b, b elements
doc.root.each('child::node()') {|e|p e}
#-> Yields <b/>, <c/>, <d/>, <b/>, <c/>, <d/>
XPath.each(doc.root, 'child::node()', &block)
#-> Yields <b/>, <c/>, <d/>, sean, <b/>, <c/>, <d/>
Returns the number of Element children of the parent object.
doc = Document.new '<a>sean<b/>elliott<b/>russell<b/></a>' doc.root.size #-> 6, 3 element and 3 text nodes doc.root.elements.size #-> 3
Returns an Array of Element children. An XPath may be supplied to filter the children. Only Element children are returned, even if the supplied XPath matches non-Element children.
doc = Document.new '<a>sean<b/>elliott<c/></a>'
doc.root.elements.to_a #-> [ <b/>, <c/> ]
doc.root.elements.to_a("child::node()") #-> [ <b/>, <c/> ]
XPath.match(doc.root, "child::node()") #-> [ sean, <b/>, elliott, <c/> ]