xmlAsText

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 equal to "a"
xp = xmlXPath(doc, "//a/text()");

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

xmlDelete(doc);

See also

• xmlXPath — Make a XPath query on a XML document
• xmlAsNumber — Convert the result of a XPath query into a row of numbers
• xmlName — Retrieve the name of the elements.

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