select-node-text

Returns the character data of the first XML element matching a path. This function calls select-nodes with node and path and returns the character data for the first element. See select-nodes for more about path.

<population>
  <pack id="1">
    <name>Scar</name>
    <name>Notch</name>
  </pack>
  <pack id="2">
    <leader>Rex</leader>
    <name>Spotty</name>
  </pack>
</population>

Given the above example document, select-node-text behaves as follows.

select-node-text(rootNode, "pack/name")
 ⇒ "Scar"

Exported from

Module simple-xml

Modifiers

sealed

Arguments

node	An instance of <xml-element>.
path	An instance of <string>.
default:	An instance of <string>. A string to return if a matching XML element is not found. Defaults to “”.

Values

text	An instance of <string>.