XML

Description

Wraps XML into an object.

Static Properties

ignoreComments readonly	Controls whether XML comments should be parsed (false) or ignored (true).
ignoreProcessingInstructions readonly	Controls whether XML preprocessing instructions should be parsed (false) or ignored (true).
ignoreWhitespace readonly	Controls whether whitespace should be parsed (false) or ignored (true).
prettyIndent readonly	The number of spaces used to indent pretty-printed XML.
prettyPrinting readonly	When true, XML is pretty-printed when converting to a string.

Constructors

XML readonly

Parses an XML string. Throws an error if the XML is incorrect.

Methods

addNamespace readonly	Adds a namespace declaration to the node. Returns the XML object itself.
appendChild readonly	Appends the given XML to this XML as a child. Returns the XML object itself.
attribute readonly	Returns a list containing all attribute elements matching the given name.
attributes readonly	Returns a list containing all attribute elements.
child readonly	Returns a list containing all children of this XML matching the given element name.
childIndex readonly	Returns a number representing the ordinal position of this XML object within the context of its parent.
children readonly	Returns an XML object containing all the properties of this XML object in order.
comments readonly	Returns an XML object containing the properties of this XML object that represent XML comments.
contains readonly	Checks if this XML object contains the given XML object.
copy readonly	Creates a copy of this XML object.
descendants readonly	Returns all the XML-valued descendants of this XML object with the given name.
elements readonly	Returns a list of XML children that are elements with a given name, or all children that are XML elements.
hasComplexContent readonly	Reports whether this XML object contains complex content.
hasSimpleContent readonly	Reports whether this XML object contains simple content.
inScopeNamespaces readonly	Returns an array of Namespace objects mirroring the current list of valid namespaces at this element.
insertChildAfter readonly	Inserts the given child2 after the given child1 in this XML object and returns this XML object.
insertChildBefore readonly	Inserts the given child2 before the given child1 in this XML object and returns this XML object.
length readonly	Returns the number of elements contained in an XML list. If this XML object is not a list, returns 1.
localName readonly	Returns the local name of this XML object.
name readonly	Returns a QName object containing the URI and the local name of the element.
namespace readonly	Returns a Namespace object containing the namespace URI of the current element.
namespaceDeclarations readonly	Returns an array containing all namespace declarations of this XML object.
nodeKind readonly	Returns the type of this XML object as one of the strings “element”, “attribute”, “comment”, “processing-instruction”, or “text”.
normalize readonly	Puts all text nodes in this and all descendant XML objects into a normal form by merging adjacent text nodes and eliminating empty text nodes. Returns this XML object.
parent readonly	Returns the parent object of this XML object.
prependChild readonly	Inserts a given child into this object before its existing XML properties, and returns this XML object.
processingInstructions readonly	Returns a list of preprocessing instructions.
removeNamespace readonly	Removes the given namespace from this XML, and returns this XML.
replace readonly	Replaces the value of specified XML properties of this XML object returns this XML object.
setChildren readonly	Replaces all of the XML-valued properties in this object with a new value, and returns this XML object.
setLocalName readonly	Replaces the local name of this XML object with a string constructed from the given name
setName readonly	Replaces the name of this XML object with the given QName object.
setNamespace readonly	Sets the namespace for this XML element.
text readonly	Returns an XML list containing all XML properties of this XML object that represent XML text nodes.
toString readonly	Returns the string representation of this object.
toXMLString readonly	Returns an XML-encoded string representation of this XML object.
xpath readonly	Evaluates the given XPath expression in accordance with the W3C XPath recommendation, using this XML object as the context node.

Static Methods

defaultSettings readonly	Returns an object containing the default parsing and print settings for XML.
setSettings readonly	Sets the parsing and print setting for XML using an object returned by the settings() method.
settings readonly	Returns an object containing the current parsing and print settings for XML.