xml Module

from-html

'sym ⇒ xml-node

Returns an xml-node representing an HTML string (wrapped in a <document> tag unless a valid HTML document is provided as input).

from-xml

'sym ⇒ xml-node

Returns an xml-node representing an XML string (element or fragment).

Example

The following program:

"<a href='https://min-lang.org'>min web site</a>" from-xml

returns the following:

{ {"https://min-lang.org" :href} :attributes ({"min web site" :text}) :children "a" :tag ;xml-element }

to-xml

xml-node ⇒ str

Returns a str representing an XML node.

xcdata

'sym ⇒ dict:xml-cdata

Returns a dict:xml-cdata representing an XML CDATA section.

xcomment

'sym ⇒ dict:xml-comment

Returns a dict:xml-comment representing an XML comment.

xelement

'sym ⇒ dict:xml-element

Returns a dict:xml-element representing an XML element (it will be an empty element with no attributes or children).

xentity

'sym ⇒ dict:xml-entity

Returns a dict:xml-entity representing an XML entity.

xescape

'sym ⇒ str

Converts any <, >, &, ', and present in 'sym into the corresponding XML entities.

xentity2utf8

dict:xml-entity ⇒ str

Returns the UTF-8 symbol corresponding to the specified XML entity.

Example

The following program prints p to the screen:

"&gt;" xentity xentity2utf8 puts

xquery

dict:xml-element 'sym ⇒ dict:xml-element

Returns an dict:xml-element representing the first element matching CSS the selector 'sym.

Example

The following program:

"<ul>\n <li class='test'>first</li>\n <li class='other'>second</li>\n <li class='test'>third</li>\n</ul>" from-xml ".test" xquery

Returns the following:

{ {"test" :class} :attributes ({"first" :text}) :children "li" :tag ;xml-element }

xqueryall

dict:xml-element 'sym ⇒ dict:xml-element

Returns a list of dict:xml-element dictionaries representing all the elements matching CSS the selector 'sym.

Example

The following program:

"<ul>\n <li class='test'>first</li>\n <li class='other'>second</li>\n <li class='test'>third</li>\n</ul>" from-xml ".test" xqueryall

Returns the following:

({ {"test" :class} :attributes ({"first" :text}) :children "li" :tag ;xml-element } { {"test" :class} :attributes ({"third" :text}) :children "li" :tag ;xml-element })

xtext

'sym ⇒ dict:xml-text

Returns a dict:xml-text representing an XML text node.