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XML-LibXML-QuerySelector-0.005
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/ XML::LibXML::QuerySelector

NAME

XML::LibXML::QuerySelector - add querySelector and querySelectorAll methods to XML::LibXML nodes

SYNOPSIS

use XML::LibXML::QuerySelector;

my $document = XML::LibXML->load_xml(location => 'my.xhtml');
my $warning  = $document->querySelector('p.warning strong');
print $warning->toString if defined $warning;

DESCRIPTION

This module defines a class (it has no constructor so perhaps closer to an abstract class or a role) XML::LibXML::QuerySelector, and sets itself up as a superclass (not a subclass) of XML::LibXML::Document, XML::LibXML::DocumentFragment and XML::LibXML::Element, thus making its methods available to objects of those classes.

Yes, this is effectively monkey-patching, but it's performed in a relatively safe manner.

Methods

The methods provided by this module are defined in the W3C Recomendation "Selectors API Level 1" http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api/.

querySelector($selector)

Given a CSS selector, returns the first match or undef if there are no matches.

querySelectorAll($selector)

Given a CSS selector, returns all matches as a list, or if called in scalar context, as an XML::LibXML::NodeList.

CAVEATS

  • When called on an element, querySelectorAll returns a static node list; not a live node list. (Called on a document or document fragment, it will return a live node list as specified in the W3C Recommendation.)

  • Use on mixed-namespace documents is largely untested. The module is mostly intended for use with XHTML and HTML documents.

BUGS

Please report any bugs to http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=XML-LibXML-QuerySelector.

TODO

  • Consider adding HTML5 DOM traversal methods including getElementsByClassName.

SEE ALSO

HTML::Selector::XPath, XML::LibXML.

http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api/.

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

THANKS

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa and Max Maischein, for HTML::Selector::XPath, and for resolving https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73719 quickly.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2012-2013 by Toby Inkster.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.