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xml.js


Useful function for XML access and manipulation.

Functions

OAT.Xml.createXmlDoc(string)


Parses a string of XML data and returns a document object.

OAT.Xml.transformXSLT(xmlDoc, xslDoc[, paramsArray])


Applies a XSLT template. xslDoc is a template to be applied to xmlDoc . Both arguments must be valid XML documents (not strings). The third (optional) argument is an array of XSLT parameters. Each parameter is a triple (array), which consists of Namespace , Name and Value .

OAT.Xml.textValue(node)


Returns a text value of node . So, for this markup --

<tag>content</tag>


-- the textValue of tag is content .

OAT.Xml.localName(node)


Returns node 's local name - the part without namespace prefix. <xsl:template> has a localName template.

OAT.Xml.childElements(node)


Returns all child nodes which are ordinary elements (i.e., no #text nodes, etc.).

OAT.Xml.getElementsByLocalName(node, localName)


Identical to getElementsByTagName , but looks only into non-namespace part of tag name.

OAT.Xml.getLocalAttribute(node, attributeName)


Returns a value of attribute whose non-prefixed name is attributeName

OAT.Xml.removeDefaultNamespace(string)


Takes an XML document in string form and removes default namespace. This is useful when we want to use XPath queries against such a document, since these cannot be executed against documents with default namespaces. Returns XML string.

OAT.Xml.xpath(xmlDoc, xPathQuery, nsObject)


Runs an XPath query ( xPathQuery ) against xmlDoc . Namespaces are resolved as properties of nsObject .

OAT.Xml.escape(xml)


Returns escaped.

OAT.Xml.unescape(txt)


Returns unescaped.

Examples

Example 1

var xmlDoc, xslDoc; // somehow fill these with data
var params = [
        ["myNS","myparam1","myvalue1"],
        ["myNS","myparam2","myvalue2"]
]
var result = OAT.Xml.transformXSLT(xmlDoc, xslDoc, params);

Example 2

var xmlString = '<?xml version="1.0" ?><document><node>value</node><node /></document>';
var xmlDoc = OAT.Xml.createXmlDoc(xmlString);
var nodeArray = OAT.Xml.xpath(xmlDoc, '//node', {});
alert(nodeArray.length); // 2


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