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How to get childNodes after parsing a string as XML using xdmp.unquote

I am trying to get the childNodes after parsing an XML string using something like:

fn.head(xdmp.unquote('<wrapper><e1>this is <b>e1</b></e1><e2>this is <b>e2</b></e2></wrapper>')).childNodes

I don't think this is the right way of doing this as I am getting the following output:

<wrapper><e1>this is <b>e1</b></e1><e2>this is <b>e2</b></e2></wrapper>

Could someone please help me with the right way of getting the child nodes of an XML string ?

Solution

  • Were you expecting to select the /wrapper element or the /wrapper/e1 and /wrapper/e2 elements?

    If you wanted to return the wrapper element:

    fn.head(xdmp.unquote('<wrapper><e1>this is <b>e1</b></e1><e2>this is <b>e2</b></e2></wrapper>'))
  .root

    or 

    fn.head(xdmp.unquote('<wrapper><e1>this is <b>e1</b></e1><e2>this is <b>e2</b></e2></wrapper>'))
  .xpath("/wrapper")

    If you wanted to return the childNodes of the wrapper element:

    fn.head(xdmp.unquote('<wrapper><e1>this is <b>e1</b></e1><e2>this is <b>e2</b></e2></wrapper>'))
  .root.childNodes

    or 

    fn.head(xdmp.unquote('<wrapper><e1>this is <b>e1</b></e1><e2>this is <b>e2</b></e2></wrapper>'))
  .xpath("/wrapper/*")