Vala.Encoding.Xml – Valacore – Vala Binding Reference

Description:

public class Xml : Object

XML parsing and serialization utilities.

Provides parse, stringify, pretty-print, and simple XPath-like query operations. Uses a hand-written parser with no external dependencies.

Example:

    XmlNode ? root = Xml.parse ("<root><item id=\"1\">Hello</item></root>");
    string val = Xml.xpathFirst (root, "//item").text ();

Package: Valacore

Content:

Static methods:

public static XmlNode? parse (string xml)

Parses an XML string into an XmlNode tree.

public static XmlNode? parseFile (Path path)

Reads an XML file and parses it into an XmlNode tree.

public static string pretty (XmlNode node, int indent = 2)

Serializes an XmlNode tree to a formatted XML string.

public static string stringify (XmlNode node)

Serializes an XmlNode tree to a compact XML string.

public static ArrayList<XmlNode> xpath (XmlNode root, string expr)

Finds nodes matching a simple XPath expression.

public static XmlNode? xpathFirst (XmlNode root, string expr)

Finds the first node matching a simple XPath expression.

Creation methods:

public Xml ()

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object

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