xmlAsText

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

Calling Sequence

strings = xmlAsText(xp)

Arguments

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

Description

The result of a XPath query or the children of a node can be a set of XMLElements, so the aim of this function is to convert the contents of each nodes into a string.

Examples

doc = `xmlReadStr`_("<root><a>Hello</a><a>Scilab</a><a>World</a></root>");

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

// convert the result into a row of strings
data = xmlAsText(xp)

xmlDelete(doc);

See Also

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

History

Version Description 5.4.0 XML module introduced. .. _xmlXPath: xmlXPath.html .. _xmlAsNumber: xmlAsNumber.html