module Nokogiri::XML::Searchable - nokogiri-1.6.6.2 Documentation

# module Nokogiri::XML::Searchable

The Searchable module declares the interface used for searching your DOM.

It implements the public methods `search`, `css`, and `xpath`, as well as allowing specific implementations to specialize some of the important behaviors.

### Constants

LOOKS_LIKE_XPATH

  Regular expression used by #search to determine if a query string is CSS or XPath

### Public Instance Methods

%(*args)
Alias for: at
/(*args)
Alias for: search
search *paths, [namespace-bindings, xpath-variable-bindings, custom-handler-class] click to toggle source

Search this object for `paths`, and return only the first result. `paths` must be one or more XPath or CSS queries.

See #search for more information.

    # File lib/nokogiri/xml/searchable.rb, line 66
    def at *args
      search(*args).first
    end

Also aliased as: %
css *rules, [namespace-bindings, custom-pseudo-class] click to toggle source

Search this object for CSS `rules`, and return only the first match. `rules` must be one or more CSS selectors.

See #css for more information.

    # File lib/nokogiri/xml/searchable.rb, line 117
    def at_css *args
      css(*args).first
    end

xpath *paths, [namespace-bindings, variable-bindings, custom-handler-class] click to toggle source

Search this node for XPath `paths`, and return only the first match. `paths` must be one or more XPath queries.

See #xpath for more information.

    # File lib/nokogiri/xml/searchable.rb, line 185
    def at_xpath *args
      xpath(*args).first
    end

css *rules, [namespace-bindings, custom-pseudo-class] click to toggle source

Search this object for CSS `rules`. `rules` must be one or more CSS selectors. For example:

    node.css('title')
    node.css('body h1.bold')
    node.css('div + p.green', 'div#one')

A hash of namespace bindings may be appended. For example:

    node.css('bike|tire', {'bike' => 'http://schwinn.com/'})

Custom CSS pseudo classes may also be defined. To define custom pseudo classes, create a class and implement the custom pseudo class you want defined. The first argument to the method will be the current matching NodeSet. Any other arguments are ones that you pass in. For example:

    node.css('title:regex("\w+")', Class.new {
      def regex node_set, regex
        node_set.find_all { |node| node['some_attribute'] =~ /#{regex}/ }
      end
    }.new)

Note that the CSS query string is case-sensitive with regards to your document type. That is, if you're looking for “H1” in an HTML document, you'll never find anything, since HTML tags will match only lowercase CSS queries. However, “H1” might be found in an XML document, where tags names are case-sensitive (e.g., “H1” is distinct from “h1”).

    # File lib/nokogiri/xml/searchable.rb, line 104
    def css *args
      rules, handler, ns, _ = extract_params(args)

      css_internal self, rules, handler, ns
    end

search *paths, [namespace-bindings, xpath-variable-bindings, custom-handler-class] click to toggle source

Search this object for `paths`. `paths` must be one or more XPath or CSS queries:

    node.search("div.employee", ".//title")

A hash of namespace bindings may be appended:

    node.search('.//bike:tire', {'bike' => 'http://schwinn.com/'})
    node.search('bike|tire', {'bike' => 'http://schwinn.com/'})

For XPath queries, a hash of variable bindings may also be appended to the namespace bindings. For example:

    node.search('.//address[@domestic=$value]', nil, {:value => 'Yes'})

Custom XPath functions and CSS pseudo-selectors may also be defined. To define custom functions create a class and implement the function you want to define. The first argument to the method will be the current matching NodeSet. Any other arguments are ones that you pass in. Note that this class may appear anywhere in the argument list. For example:

    node.search('.//title[regex(., "\w+")]', 'div.employee:regex("[0-9]+")'
      Class.new {
        def regex node_set, regex
          node_set.find_all { |node| node['some_attribute'] =~ /#{regex}/ }
        end
      }.new
    )

See #xpath and #css for further usage help.

    # File lib/nokogiri/xml/searchable.rb, line 48
    def search *args
      paths, handler, ns, binds = extract_params(args)

      xpaths = paths.map(&:to_s).map do |path|
        (path =~ LOOKS_LIKE_XPATH) ? path : xpath_query_from_css_rule(path, ns)
      end.flatten.uniq

      xpath(*(xpaths + [ns, handler, binds].compact))
    end

Also aliased as: /
xpath *paths, [namespace-bindings, variable-bindings, custom-handler-class] click to toggle source

Search this node for XPath `paths`. `paths` must be one or more XPath queries.

    node.xpath('.//title')

A hash of namespace bindings may be appended. For example:

    node.xpath('.//foo:name', {'foo' => 'http://example.org/'})
    node.xpath('.//xmlns:name', node.root.namespaces)

A hash of variable bindings may also be appended to the namespace bindings. For example:

    node.xpath('.//address[@domestic=$value]', nil, {:value => 'Yes'})

Custom XPath functions may also be defined. To define custom functions create a class and implement the function you want to define. The first argument to the method will be the current matching NodeSet. Any other arguments are ones that you pass in. Note that this class may appear anywhere in the argument list. For example:

    node.xpath('.//title[regex(., "\w+")]', Class.new {
      def regex node_set, regex
        node_set.find_all { |node| node['some_attribute'] =~ /#{regex}/ }
      end
    }.new)

    # File lib/nokogiri/xml/searchable.rb, line 151
    def xpath *args
      return NodeSet.new(document) unless document

      paths, handler, ns, binds = extract_params(args)

      sets = paths.map do |path|
        ctx = XPathContext.new(self)
        ctx.register_namespaces(ns)
        path = path.gsub(/xmlns:/, ' :') unless Nokogiri.uses_libxml?

        binds.each do |key,value|
          ctx.register_variable key.to_s, value
        end if binds

        ctx.evaluate(path, handler)
      end
      return sets.first if sets.length == 1

      NodeSet.new(document) do |combined|
        sets.each do |set|
          set.each do |node|
            combined << node
          end
        end
      end
    end

### Private Instance Methods

css_internal(node, rules, handler, ns) click to toggle source

    # File lib/nokogiri/xml/searchable.rb, line 191
    def css_internal node, rules, handler, ns
      xpaths = rules.map { |rule| xpath_query_from_css_rule(rule, ns) }
      node.xpath(*(xpaths + [ns, handler].compact))
    end

xpath_query_from_css_rule(rule, ns) click to toggle source

    # File lib/nokogiri/xml/searchable.rb, line 196
    def xpath_query_from_css_rule rule, ns
      implied_xpath_contexts.map do |implied_xpath_context|
        CSS.xpath_for(rule.to_s, :prefix => implied_xpath_context, :ns => ns)
      end.join(' | ')
    end