XmlNodeSet Template

select()

Execute an XPath 1.0 exression

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Syntax

XmlNodeSet = rb.XmlNodeSet.select(xpathExr)

Parameters

The 'select' method takes 1 parameter:

Results

The 'select' method returns structure:

Remarks

Execute an XPath 1.0 exression, using the selected XmlGeneric as the initial context node for the query. See the XPath Tutorial for examples of how to use this method, and for a primer on XPath syntax.

This specific method should be used where the desired result is expected to be a node set. The method evaluates the XPath expression and always results in an instance of XmlNodeSet. If the Xpath result is not a node set the return set is simply empty.

If you want to evaluate a generic XPath expression - with access to all the possible return types use XmlGeneric.xpath()