find_xpath: Run XPath query

In mclm: Mastering Corpus Linguistics Methods

Run XPath query

Description

This function finds matches for an XPath query in a corpus.

Usage

find_xpath(x, pattern, fun = NULL, final_fun = NULL, namespaces = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x	A corpus: an fnames object, a character vector of an XML source, or a document parsed with xml2::read_xml().
pattern	An XPath query.
fun	Function to be applied to the individual nodes prior to returning the result.
final_fun	Function to be applied to the complete list of matches prior to returning the result.
namespaces	A namespace as generated by xml2::xml_ns().
...	Additional arguments.

Value

A nodeset or the output of applying fun to a nodeset.

Examples

test_xml <- '
<p>
  <w pos="at">The</w>
  <w pos="nn">example</w>
  <punct>.</punct>
</p>'

find_xpath(test_xml, "//w")
find_xpath(test_xml, "//@pos")
find_xpath(test_xml, "//w[@pos='nn']")

find_xpath(test_xml, "//w", fun = xml2::xml_text)
find_xpath(test_xml, "//w", fun = xml2::xml_attr, attr = "pos")

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