bkersten / lua-xpath

A simple XPath library to help stay sane while working with XML in Lua

lua-xpath is a simple XPath library to help stay sane while working with XML in Lua

Dependencies
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LuaExpat and Lua Object Model (http://matthewwild.co.uk/projects/luaexpat/index.html)

Usage
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local lom = require "lxp.lom"
local xpath = require "xpath"

local xml = [[
<root>
    <node foo="bar">sample text</node>
    <node>other text</node>
</root>
]]

local xml_tree = lom.parse(xml)

local nodes = xpath.selectNodes(xml_tree, '/root/node[@foo="bar"]/text()')
for _,val in ipairs(nodes) do
    print(val)
end

The output will be "sample text"