find_between: Find between a pattern

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Find between a pattern

Description

Helper function to find all nodes between a standard pattern. This is useful if you want to find unnested pandoc tags.

Usage

find_between(
  body,
  ns,
  pattern = "md:paragraph[md:text[starts-with(text(), ':::')]]",
  include = FALSE
)

Arguments

body	and XML document
ns	the namespace of the document
pattern	an XPath expression that defines characteristics of nodes between which you want to extract everything.
include	if TRUE, the tags matching pattern will be included in the output, defaults to FALSE, which only gives you the nodes in between pattern.

Value

a nodeset

Examples

md <- glue::glue("
 h1
 ====

 ::: section

 h2
 ----

 section *text* with [a link](https://ropensci.org/)
 
 :::
")
x <- xml2::read_xml(commonmark::markdown_xml(md))
ns <- xml2::xml_ns_rename(xml2::xml_ns(x), d1 = "md")
res <- find_between(x, ns)
res
xml2::xml_text(res)
xml2::xml_find_all(res, ".//descendant-or-self::md:*", ns = ns)

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