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authormatz <matz@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2008-12-03 00:31:58 +0000
committermatz <matz@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2008-12-03 00:31:58 +0000
commit684f94c0edfca1d2ffbb9caefca95310f4f1da31 (patch)
tree17a7308f3227c2989dc9f67dd992ab50e8e52432 /lib
parent7fd3ac4895af97a69e96ce303e56896e6243df41 (diff)
* lib/rexml/xpath.rb (REXML::XPath.first): apply documentation
patch from Ken Bloom in [ruby-core:20213]. * lib/rexml/xpath.rb (REXML::XPath.each): ditto. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@20454 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/rexml/xpath.rb11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rexml/xpath.rb b/lib/rexml/xpath.rb
index 7c5c258ad9..b22969ec8c 100644
--- a/lib/rexml/xpath.rb
+++ b/lib/rexml/xpath.rb
@@ -15,10 +15,15 @@ module REXML
# node matching '*'.
# namespaces::
# If supplied, a Hash which defines a namespace mapping.
+ # variables::
+ # If supplied, a Hash which maps $variables in the query
+ # to values. This can be used to avoid XPath injection attacks
+ # or to automatically handle escaping string values.
#
# XPath.first( node )
# XPath.first( doc, "//b"} )
# XPath.first( node, "a/x:b", { "x"=>"http://doofus" } )
+ # XPath.first( node, '/book/publisher/text()=$publisher', {}, {"publisher"=>"O'Reilly"})
def XPath::first element, path=nil, namespaces=nil, variables={}
raise "The namespaces argument, if supplied, must be a hash object." unless namespaces.nil? or namespaces.kind_of?(Hash)
raise "The variables argument, if supplied, must be a hash object." unless variables.kind_of?(Hash)
@@ -38,10 +43,16 @@ module REXML
# The xpath to search for. If not supplied or nil, defaults to '*'
# namespaces::
# If supplied, a Hash which defines a namespace mapping
+ # variables::
+ # If supplied, a Hash which maps $variables in the query
+ # to values. This can be used to avoid XPath injection attacks
+ # or to automatically handle escaping string values.
#
# XPath.each( node ) { |el| ... }
# XPath.each( node, '/*[@attr='v']' ) { |el| ... }
# XPath.each( node, 'ancestor::x' ) { |el| ... }
+ # XPath.each( node, '/book/publisher/text()=$publisher', {}, {"publisher"=>"O'Reilly"}) \
+ # {|el| ... }
def XPath::each element, path=nil, namespaces=nil, variables={}, &block
raise "The namespaces argument, if supplied, must be a hash object." unless namespaces.nil? or namespaces.kind_of?(Hash)
raise "The variables argument, if supplied, must be a hash object." unless variables.kind_of?(Hash)