doc:xpath
March 26, 2020
Name
doc:xpath — Perform an XPath query
Synopsis
require('xml');
doc:xpath(query, [contextnode]);
query: string contextnode: string (optional)
Description
This function performs an XPath query and returns an iterator over the resultant set of nodes. You may specify an optional node from the same document to use as context for the XPath query. Note: If you include a context node you must enclose it in square brackets.
... for node in doc:xpath("//item") do print(node:name()) end