select-single-node

Returns the first XML element matching a path. This function calls select-nodes with node and path and returns the first element found. 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-single-node behaves as follows.

select-nodes(rootNode, "pack/name")
 ⇒ {name "Scar"}

Exported from

Module simple-xml

Modifiers

sealed

Arguments

node	An instance of <xml-element>.
path	An instance of <string>.

Values

found-node

An instance of <xml-element>, or #f if no matching XML element was found.