require 'rexml/functions'
require 'rexml/xpath_parser'
module REXML
class XPath
include Functions
EMPTY_HASH = {}
def XPath::first element, path=nil, namespaces=nil, variables={}
raise "The namespaces argument, if supplied, must be a hash object." unless namespaces.nil? or namespaces.kind_of?(Hash)
raise "The variables argument, if supplied, must be a hash object." unless variables.kind_of?(Hash)
parser = XPathParser.new
parser.namespaces = namespaces
parser.variables = variables
path = "*" unless path
element = [element] unless element.kind_of? Array
parser.parse(path, element).flatten[0]
end
def XPath::each element, path=nil, namespaces=nil, variables={}, &block
raise "The namespaces argument, if supplied, must be a hash object." unless namespaces.nil? or namespaces.kind_of?(Hash)
raise "The variables argument, if supplied, must be a hash object." unless variables.kind_of?(Hash)
parser = XPathParser.new
parser.namespaces = namespaces
parser.variables = variables
path = "*" unless path
element = [element] unless element.kind_of? Array
parser.parse(path, element).each( &block )
end
def XPath::match element, path=nil, namespaces=nil, variables={}
parser = XPathParser.new
parser.namespaces = namespaces
parser.variables = variables
path = "*" unless path
element = [element] unless element.kind_of? Array
parser.parse(path,element)
end
end
end