ballerina/lang.xml Ballerina library

Applies a function to each item in an xml sequence, and returns an xml sequence of the results.

Each item is represented as a singleton value.

xml x = xml `<book>Hamlet</book><book>Macbeth</book>`;
x.map(function (xml xmlContent) returns xml => 
  xml `<book kind="play">${xmlContent.children()}</book>`
) ⇒ <book kind="play">Hamlet</book><book kind="play">Macbeth</book>

Returns the children of elements in an xml value.

When parameter x is of type Element, it is equivalent to function getChildren. This is equivalent to elements(x).map(getChildren).

xml x = xml `<books><book><title>Hamlet</title></book><book><title>Macbeth</title></book></books>`;
x.children() ⇒ <book><title>Hamlet</title></book><book><title>Macbeth</title></book>

Concatenates xml and string values.

xml bookA = xml `<book>Sherlock Holmes</book>`;
xml bookB = xml `<book>Hamlet</book>`;
xml:concat(bookA, bookB, xml `<book>Macbeth</book>`) ⇒ <book>Sherlock Holmes</book><book>Hamlet</book><book>Macbeth</book>

bookA.concat(bookB) ⇒ <book>Sherlock Holmes</book><book>Hamlet</book>

bookB.concat("Novel") ⇒ <book>Hamlet</book>Novel

xml:concat("Hello", "World") ⇒ HelloWorld

xml[] subjects = [xml `<subject>English</subject>`, xml `<subject>Math</subject>`, xml `<subject>ICT</subject>`];
xml:concat(...subjects) ⇒ <subject>English</subject><subject>Math</subject><subject>ICT</subject>

Creates a new xml comment item.

xml:createComment("Example comment") ⇒ <!--Example comment-->

Creates a new xml element item.

xml:createElement(
    "book", 
    {genre: "Mystery", year: "1892"}, 
    xml `<title>Sherlock Holmes</title><author>Arthur Conan Doyle</author>`
) ⇒ <book genre="Mystery" year="1892"><title>Sherlock Holmes</title><author>Arthur Conan Doyle</author></book>

xml:createElement("person") ⇒ <person/>

xml:createElement("student", {id: "1209"}) ⇒ <student id="1209"/>

xml:createElement("employee", children = xml `<name>John</name>`) ⇒ <employee><name>John</name></employee>

Creates a new xml processing instruction item.

xml:createProcessingInstruction("sort", "descending") ⇒ <?sort descending?>

Constructs an xml value of type Text.

The constructed sequence will be empty when the length of parameter data is zero.

xml:createText("Hello!") ⇒ Hello!

Returns a string with the character data of an xml value.

The character data of an xml value is as follows:

• the character data of a text item is a string with one character for each character information item represented by the text item;
• the character data of an element item is the character data of its children;
• the character data of a comment item is the empty string;
• the character data of a processing instruction item is the empty string;
• the character data of an empty xml sequence is the empty string;
• the character data of the concatenation of two xml sequences x1 and x2 is the concatenation of the character data of x1 and the character data of x2.

xml x = xml `<book>Jane Eyre</book>`;
x.data() ⇒ Jane Eyre

Selects element children of an xml value.

This is equivalent to children(x).elements(nm).

xml x = xml `<book><play>Hamlet</play></book><book><novel>Macbeth</novel></book>`;
x.elementChildren() ⇒ <play>Hamlet</play><novel>Macbeth</novel>

x.elementChildren("novel") ⇒ <novel>Macbeth</novel>

Selects elements from an xml value.

If parameter nm is (), selects all elements; otherwise, selects only elements whose expanded name is parameter nm.

xml x = xml `<!--Mystery--><novel>Sherlock Holmes</novel><!--Drama--><play>Hamlet</play>
            <novel>Jane Eyre</novel><play>Macbeth</play>`;
x.elements() ⇒ <novel>Sherlock Holmes</novel><play>Hamlet</play><novel>Jane Eyre</novel><play>Macbeth</play>

x.elements("novel") ⇒ <novel>Sherlock Holmes</novel><novel>Jane Eyre</novel>

Selects the items from an xml sequence for which a function returns true.

Each item is represented as a singleton value.

xml x = xml `<novel>Sherlock Holemes</novel><play>Hamlet</play><novel>Invisible Man</novel><play>Romeo and Juliet</play>`;
x.filter(x => x is xml:Element && x.getName() == "play") ⇒ <play>Hamlet</play><play>Romeo and Juliet</play>

Applies a function to each item in an xml sequence.

Each item is represented as a singleton value.

xml books = xml `<book>Sherlock Holmes</book><book>Invisible Man</book>`;
xml titles = xml ``;

books.forEach(function (xml xmlItem) {
    titles += xml `<novel>${xmlItem.data()}</novel>`;
});

titles ⇒ <novel>Sherlock Holmes</novel><novel>Invisible Man</novel>

Constructs an xml value from a string.

This parses the string using the content production of the XML 1.0 Recommendation.

xml:fromString("<book>Hamlet</book><book>Sherlock Holmes</book>") ⇒ <book>Hamlet</book><book>Sherlock Holmes</book>

xml:fromString("<a>b") ⇒ error

Returns the item of an xml sequence with given index.

This differs from x[i] in that it panics if parameter x does not have an item with index parameter i.

xml x = xml `<book><title>Macbeth</title></book><book><title>Hamlet</title></book>`;
x.get(1) ⇒ <book><title>Hamlet</title></book>

x.get(15) ⇒ panic

Returns the map representing the attributes of an xml element.

This includes namespace attributes. The keys in the map are the expanded names of the attributes.

xml:Element e = xml `<person id="1012" employed="yes"><name>John</name></person>`;
e.getAttributes() ⇒ {"id":"1012","employed":"yes"}

Returns the children of an xml element.

xml:Element e = xml `<books><book>Hamlet</book><book>Macbeth</book></books>`;
e.getChildren() ⇒ <book>Hamlet</book><book>Macbeth</book>

Returns the content of a processing instruction or comment item.

xml:ProcessingInstruction procInstruction = xml `<?sort ascending?>`;
procInstruction.getContent() ⇒ ascending

xml:Comment comment = xml `<!--Employees by department-->`;
comment.getContent() ⇒ Employees by department

Returns the descendants of an xml element.

The descendants of an element are the children of the element together with, for each of those children that is an element, the descendants of that element, ordered so that each element immediately precedes all its descendants. The order of the items in the returned sequence will thus correspond to the order in which the first character of the representation of the item would occur in the representation of the element in XML syntax.

xml:Element e = xml `<person><name>John Doe</name><age>30</age></person>`;
e.getDescendants() ⇒ <name>John Doe</name>John Doe<age>30</age>30

Returns a string giving the expanded name of an xml element.

xml:Element e = xml `<person age="30">John</person>`;
e.getName() ⇒ person

Returns the target part of the processing instruction.

xml:ProcessingInstruction p = xml `<?sort ascending?>`;
p.getTarget() ⇒ sort

Returns an iterator over the xml items of an xml sequence.

Returns number of xml items in an xml value.

xml `<book><title>Sherlock Holmes</title></book><!--Novel-->`.length() ⇒ 2

Sets the children of an xml element.

This panics if it would result in the element structure becoming cyclic.

xml:Element employees = xml `<employees><employee>David</employee><employee>Peter</employee></employees>`;
employees.setChildren(xml `<employee>Alice</employee><employee>Bob</employee>`);
employees ⇒ <employees><employee>Alice</employee><employee>Bob</employee></employees>

xml:Element student = xml `<student id="1205">John</student>`;
student.setChildren("Jane");
student ⇒ <student id="1205">Jane</student>

Changes the name of an XML element.

xml:Element e = xml `<person>John</person>`;
e.setName("student");
e ⇒ <student>John</student>

Returns a subsequence of an xml value.

xml x = xml `<book>HTML</book><book>Invisible Man</book><book>David Copperfield</book><book>Jane Eyre</book>`;
x.slice(2) ⇒ <book>David Copperfield</book><book>Jane Eyre</book>

x.slice(1, 3) ⇒ <book>Invisible Man</book><book>David Copperfield</book>

Strips the insignificant parts of the an xml value.

Comment items, processing instruction items are considered insignificant. After removal of comments and processing instructions, the text is grouped into the biggest possible chunks (i.e., only elements cause division into multiple chunks) and a chunk is considered insignificant if the entire chunk is whitespace.

xml x = xml `<?publication year="1604"?><!--This is a play-->
                  <book author="William Shakespeare"><title>Othello</title></book>`;
x.strip() ⇒ <book author="William Shakespeare"><title>Othello</title></book>

Selects all the items in a sequence that are of type xml:Text.

xml x = xml `John<!-- middle name --><mname>Alex</mname> Doe`;
x.text() ⇒ John Doe