/mochiweb_xpath

XPath support for mochiweb's html parser

Primary LanguageErlangOtherNOASSERTION

XPath 1.0 interpreter for mochiweb's html tree See src/test.erl for examples

Build

make
make test

API

mochiweb_xpath:execute/2
mochiweb_xpath:execute/3
mochiweb_xpath:compile_xpath/1

Usage

Tree = mochiweb_html:parse(<<"some html">>),
Results = mochiweb_xpath:execute("/some/xpath", Tree).

Note

mochiweb_xpath_parser:compile_xpath/1 utilize two undocumented functions in xmerl (xmerl_xpath_parse:parse/1 and xmerl_xpath_scan:tokens/1). These functions could change between OTP versions.. I'm using R12B2

Xpath coverage

Implemented axes

  • self
  • child
  • descendant-or-self
  • descendant
  • parent (only for elements, not text()/parent:: or attribute::*/parent::)
  • following-sibling (same as parent)
  • preceding-sibling (same as parent)
  • attribute

Implemented functions

  • last
  • position
  • count
  • concat
  • ends-with
  • name
  • starts-with
  • contains
  • substring
  • sum
  • string-length
  • not

Implemented abbreviated syntax

  • indexed access (e.g. div[last() - 1])

TODO axes

  • ancestor
  • ancestor-or-self
  • following
  • namespace
  • preceding

TODO functions

  • id
  • local-name
  • namespace-uri
  • string
  • substring-before
  • substring-after
  • normalize-space
  • translate
  • boolean
  • true
  • false
  • lang
  • number
  • sum
  • floor
  • ceiling
  • round

TODO:

port match_* from xmerl_xpath for better axes support