xmlAsNumber

Convert the result of a XPath query into a row of numbers

Calling Sequence

nums = xmlAsNumber(xp)

Arguments

:xp xp, a XML mlist typed XMLSet or XMLList : :nums nums, a single row of doubles :

Description

The result of a XPath query or the chidren of a node can be a set of XMLElements which contains numbers, so the aim of this function is to convert the contents of each nodes into a double.

Examples

doc = `xmlReadStr`_("<root><a>12</a><a>13</a><a>1.2345678</a><a>45e3</a><a>.23E-2</a></root>");

// Retrieve the content of the nodes with name equals to "a"
xp = `xmlXPath`_(doc, "//a/text()");

// convert the result into doubles
data = xmlAsNumber(xp)

xmlDelete(doc);

See Also

• `xmlXPath`_ Make an XPath query on a XML document
• `xmlAsText`_ Convert the result of a XPath query into a row of strings

History

Version Description 5.4.0 XML module introduced. .. _xmlXPath: xmlXPath.html .. _xmlAsText: xmlAsText.html