pyio.xml_find_all

Finds all xml nodes inside an xml tree that match the given location path

pyio.xml_find_all(start_element, path, namespaces) 
start_element:xml_find_all(path, namespaces) 

Parameter	Type	Description
start_element	xml_document or xml_element	The xml node from where to navigate the path
path	string	Relative path. The syntax allows a subset of XPath 1.0, see pyio.xml_find
namespaces	{ prefix = namespace_uri, ... }	Optional. A table that matches the namespace-prefixes used in the path parameter to actual namespace URI names

Return value

Type	Description
table	An array-style table containing every xml node that matches the path. Each entry is either an xml_element or a string, depending on which kind of node is identified by the final step of the path. The table is empty if nothing matches.

Options for path

The path parameter uses the same abbreviated XPath 1.0 subset as pyio.xml_find. Refer to that page for the full list of supported constructs (*, abc, pre:abc, text(), @attr, ...[n], and the / / // step separators).

Unlike pyio.xml_find, which stops at the first match, pyio.xml_find_all traverses the whole tree reachable by the path and returns every match in document order.

Version Support:

Minimum PYTHA Version: V26

See also:

pyio, pyio.xml_find, pyio.parse_xml