Represents a parsed HTML or XML document and evaluates XPath 1.0 expressions against it. XPath is intended for structured document queries when simple tag or id lookups are not enough.
Availability: ZPE 1.14.11 is the first version to support the XPath object. Its methods run without an additional permission level.
Object functions
- _construct
Parses HTML or XML text for XPath queries.
- _output
Returns the source text held by the object.
- boolean
Returns the Boolean value of an XPath expression.
- count
Returns the number of nodes selected by an XPath expression.
- number
Returns the numeric value of an XPath expression.
- select
Returns the nodes selected by an XPath expression. The alias query is also available.
- select_one
Returns the first node selected by an XPath expression, or undefined when there is no match.
- value
Returns the string value of an XPath expression.
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