Manpages - XML_LibXML_XPathExpression.3pm

XML::LibXML::XPathExpression - XML::LibXML::XPathExpression - interface to libxml2 pre-compiled XPath expressions

use XML::LibXML; my $compiled_xpath = XML::LibXML::XPathExpression->new(//foo[@bar=“baz”][position()<4]); # interface from XML::LibXML::Node my $result = $node->find($compiled_xpath); my @nodes = $node->findnodes($compiled_xpath); my $value = $node->findvalue($compiled_xpath); # interface from XML::LibXML::XPathContext my $result = $xpc->find($compiled_xpath,$node); my @nodes = $xpc->findnodes($compiled_xpath,$node); my $value = $xpc->findvalue($compiled_xpath,$node); $compiled = XML::LibXML::XPathExpression->new( xpath_string );

This is a perl interface to libxml2’s pre-compiled XPath expressions. Pre-compiling an XPath expression can give in some performance benefit if the same XPath query is evaluated many times. XML::LibXML::XPathExpression objects can be passed to all find... functions XML::LibXML that expect an XPath expression.

new()

$compiled = XML::LibXML::XPathExpression->new( xpath_string ); The constructor takes an XPath 1.0 expression as a string and returns an object representing the pre-compiled expressions (the actual data structure is internal to libxml2).

Matt Sergeant, Christian Glahn, Petr Pajas

2.0207

2001-2007, AxKit.com Ltd.

2002-2006, Christian Glahn.

2006-2009, Petr Pajas.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.