LaTeXML::Common::XML(3)

NAME
"LaTeXML::Common::XML" - XML utilities

DESCRIPTION
This module provides utilities for accessing XML, along with some patches to XML::LibXML.

"element_nodes($node)"
    Returns a list of the element children of $node.

"text_in_node($node)"
    Returns the string combining the text nodes within $node.

"isTeXtNode($node)"
    Checks whether $node is a text node.

"isElementNode($node)"
    Checks whether $node is a element node.

"isChild($child,$parent)"
    Checks whether $child is a child of $parent.

"isDecscendant($child,$parent)"
    Checks whether $child is a descendant of $parent.

"isDecscendantOrSelf($child,$parent)"
    Checks whether $child is a descendant of, or the same as, $parent.

"new_node($nsURI,$tag,$children,%attributes)"
    Creates a new element node with tag $tag (in the namespace $nsURI), with the children in the array ref $children (if any) and assigning the given attributes.

"append_nodes($node,@children)"
    Appends the given children to $node.

"clear_node($node)"
    Removes all element and text children from $node.

"maybe_clone($node)"
    Clones $node if it has a parent, otherwise returns it.

"copy_attributes($to,$from)"
    Copy all attributes from $from to $to.

"rename_attribute($node,$from,$to)"
    Rename the attribute $from to $to on the node $node.

"remove_attr($node,@attr)"
    Remove the given attributes from $node.

"get_attr($node,@attr)"
    Returns the list of values for the given attributes on $node

"initialize_catalogs()"
    Initialize XML::LibXML to recognize the catalogs given in LaTeXML.catalogs.

"set_RDFa_prefixes($document,$map)"
    This method scans the document's RDFa attributes, extracting the prefixes used. These prefixes are then filtered through a $map of known RDFa prefixes and the ones allowed are declared globally for the document via the "prefix" attribute of its root element.

AUTHOR
Bruce Miller <bruce.miller@nist.gov>, Deyan Ginev <deyan.ginev@nist.gov>

COPYRIGHT
Public domain software, produced as part of work done by the United States Government & not subject to copyright in the US.