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<h1>Module <code>pl.xml</code></h1>
<p>XML LOM Utilities.</p>
<p> This implements some useful things on <a href="http://matthewwild.co.uk/projects/luaexpat/lom.html">LOM</a> documents, such as returned by <code>lxp.lom.parse</code>.
 In particular, it can convert LOM back into XML text, with optional pretty-printing control.
 It is based on stanza.lua from <a href="http://hg.prosody.im/trunk/file/4621c92d2368/util/stanza.lua">Prosody</a></p>


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&gt; d = xml.<span class="function-name">parse</span> <span class="string">"&lt;nodes&gt;&lt;node id='1'&gt;alice&lt;/node&gt;&lt;/nodes&gt;"</span>
&gt; = d
&lt;nodes&gt;&lt;node id=<span class="string">'1'</span>&gt;alice&lt;/node&gt;&lt;/nodes&gt;
&gt; = xml.<span class="global">tostring</span>(d,<span class="string">''</span>,<span class="string">'  '</span>)
&lt;nodes&gt;
   &lt;node id=<span class="string">'1'</span>&gt;alice&lt;/node&gt;
&lt;/nodes&gt;
</pre>

<p> Can be used as a lightweight one-stop-shop for simple XML processing; a simple XML parser is included
 but the default is to use <code>lxp.lom</code> if it can be found.
 <pre>
 Prosody IM
 Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Matthew Wild
 Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Waqas Hussain--
 classic Lua XML parser by Roberto Ierusalimschy.
 modified to output LOM format.
 http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaXml
 </pre>
 See <a href="../manual/06-data.md.html#XML">the Guide</a></p>

<p> Dependencies: <a href="../libraries/pl.utils.html#">pl.utils</a></p>

<p> Soft Dependencies: <code>lxp.lom</code> (fallback is to use basic Lua parser)</p>


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	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#new">new (tag[, attr={}])</a></td>
	<td class="summary">create a new document node.</td>
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	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#parse">parse (text_or_filename, is_file, use_basic)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">parse an XML document.</td>
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	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#elem">elem (tag, items)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Create a Node with a set of children (text or Nodes) and attributes.</td>
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	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#tags">tags (list)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">given a list of names, return a number of element constructors.</td>
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	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:addtag">Doc:addtag (tag[, attrs={}])</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Adds a document Node, at current position.</td>
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	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:text">Doc:text (text)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Adds a text node, at current position.</td>
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	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:up">Doc:up ()</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Moves current position up one level.</td>
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	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:reset">Doc:reset ()</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Resets current position to top level.</td>
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	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:add_direct_child">Doc:add_direct_child (child)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Append a child to the current Node (ignoring current position).</td>
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	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:add_child">Doc:add_child (child)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Append a child at the current position (without changing position).</td>
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	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:set_attribs">Doc:set_attribs (t)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Set attributes of a document node.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:set_attrib">Doc:set_attrib (a, v)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Set a single attribute of a document node.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:get_attribs">Doc:get_attribs ()</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Gets the attributes of a document node.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc.subst">Doc.subst (template, data)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">create a substituted copy of a document,</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:child_with_name">Doc:child_with_name (tag)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Return the first child with a given tag name (non-recursive).</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:get_elements_with_name">Doc:get_elements_with_name (tag[, dont_recurse=false])</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Returns all elements in a document that have a given tag.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:children">Doc:children ()</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Iterator over all children of a document node, including text nodes.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:first_childtag">Doc:first_childtag ()</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Return the first child element of a node, if it exists.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:matching_tags">Doc:matching_tags ([tag=nil[, xmlns=nil]])</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Iterator that matches tag names, and a namespace (non-recursive).</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:childtags">Doc:childtags ()</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Iterator over all child tags of a document node.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:maptags">Doc:maptags (callback)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Visit child Nodes of a node and call a function, possibly modifying the document.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#xml_escape">xml_escape (str)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Escapes a string for safe use in xml.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#xml_unescape">xml_unescape (str)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Unescapes a string from xml.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#tostring">tostring (doc[, b_ind[, t_ind[, a_ind[, xml_preface]]]])</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Function to pretty-print an XML document.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:tostring">Doc:tostring ([b_ind[, t_ind[, a_ind[, xml_preface="&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt;"]]]])</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Method to pretty-print an XML document.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:get_text">Doc:get_text ()</a></td>
	<td class="summary">get the full text value of an element.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#clone">clone (doc[, strsubst])</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Returns a copy of a document.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:filter">Doc:filter ([strsubst])</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Returns a copy of a document.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#compare">compare (t1, t2)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Compare two documents or elements.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#is_tag">is_tag (d)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">is this value a document element?</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#walk">walk (doc, depth_first, operation)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Calls a function recursively over Nodes in the document.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#parsehtml">parsehtml (s)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Parse a well-formed HTML file as a string.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#basic_parse">basic_parse (s, all_text, html)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">Parse a simple XML document using a pure Lua parser based on Robero Ierusalimschy's original version.</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="name" nowrap><a href="#Doc:match">Doc:match (pat)</a></td>
	<td class="summary">does something...</td>
	</tr>
</table>

<br/>
<br/>


    <h2 class="section-header "><a name="Functions"></a>Functions</h2>

    <dl class="function">
    <dt>
    <a name = "new"></a>
    <strong>new (tag[, attr={}])</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    create a new document node.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">tag</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         the tag name
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">attr</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.6">table</a></span>
         attributes (table of name-value pairs)
         (<em>default</em> {})
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        the Node object
    </ol>


    <h3>See also:</h3>
    <ul>
         <a href="../libraries/pl.xml.html#elem">xml.elem</a>
    </ul>

    <h3>Usage:</h3>
    <ul>
        <pre class="example"><span class="keyword">local</span> doc = xml.<span class="function-name">new</span>(<span class="string">"main"</span>, { hello = <span class="string">"world"</span>, answer = <span class="string">"42"</span> })
<span class="global">print</span>(doc)  <span class="comment">--&gt;  &lt;main hello='world' answer='42'/&gt;</span></pre>
    </ul>

</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "parse"></a>
    <strong>parse (text_or_filename, is_file, use_basic)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    parse an XML document.  By default, this uses lxp.lom.parse, but
 falls back to basic_parse, or if <code>use_basic</code> is truthy


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">text_or_filename</span>
          file or string representation
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">is_file</span>
         whether text<em>or</em>file is a file name or not
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">use_basic</span>
         do a basic parse
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>
        <li>
        a parsed LOM document with the document metatatables set</li>
        <li>
        nil, error the error can either be a file error or a parse error</li>
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "elem"></a>
    <strong>elem (tag, items)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Create a Node with a set of children (text or Nodes) and attributes.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">tag</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         a tag name
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">items</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.6">table</a> or <a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         either a single child (text or Node), or a table where the hash
 part is the attributes and the list part is the children (text or Nodes).
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        the new Node
    </ol>


    <h3>See also:</h3>
    <ul>
         <li><a href="../libraries/pl.xml.html#new">xml.new</a></li>
         <li><a href="../libraries/pl.xml.html#tags">xml.tags</a></li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Usage:</h3>
    <ul>
        <pre class="example"><span class="keyword">local</span> doc = xml.<span class="function-name">elem</span>(<span class="string">"top"</span>, <span class="string">"hello world"</span>)                <span class="comment">-- &lt;top&gt;hello world&lt;/top&gt;
</span><span class="keyword">local</span> doc = xml.<span class="function-name">elem</span>(<span class="string">"main"</span>, xml.<span class="function-name">new</span>(<span class="string">"child"</span>))            <span class="comment">-- &lt;main&gt;&lt;child/&gt;&lt;/main&gt;
</span><span class="keyword">local</span> doc = xml.<span class="function-name">elem</span>(<span class="string">"main"</span>, { <span class="string">"this "</span>, <span class="string">"is "</span>, <span class="string">"nice"</span> })  <span class="comment">-- &lt;main&gt;this is nice&lt;/main&gt;
</span><span class="keyword">local</span> doc = xml.<span class="function-name">elem</span>(<span class="string">"main"</span>, { xml.<span class="function-name">new</span> <span class="string">"this"</span>,
                               xml.<span class="function-name">new</span> <span class="string">"is"</span>,
                               xml.<span class="function-name">new</span> <span class="string">"nice"</span> })          <span class="comment">-- &lt;main&gt;&lt;this/&gt;&lt;is/&gt;&lt;nice/&gt;&lt;/main&gt;
</span><span class="keyword">local</span> doc = xml.<span class="function-name">elem</span>(<span class="string">"main"</span>, { hello = <span class="string">"world"</span> })         <span class="comment">-- &lt;main hello='world'/&gt;
</span><span class="keyword">local</span> doc = xml.<span class="function-name">elem</span>(<span class="string">"main"</span>, {
  <span class="string">"prefix"</span>,
  xml.<span class="function-name">elem</span>(<span class="string">"child"</span>, { <span class="string">"this "</span>, <span class="string">"is "</span>, <span class="string">"nice"</span>}),
  <span class="string">"postfix"</span>,
  attrib = <span class="string">"value"</span>
})   <span class="comment">-- &lt;main attrib='value'&gt;prefix&lt;child&gt;this is nice&lt;/child&gt;postfix&lt;/main&gt;"</span></pre>
    </ul>

</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "tags"></a>
    <strong>tags (list)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    given a list of names, return a number of element constructors.
 If passing a comma-separated string, then whitespace surrounding the values
 will be stripped.</p>

<p> The returned constructor functions are a shortcut to <a href="../libraries/pl.xml.html#elem">xml.elem</a> where you
 no longer provide the tag-name, but only the <code>items</code> table.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">list</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a> or <a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.6">table</a></span>
         a list of names, or a comma-separated string.
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        (multiple) constructor functions; <code>function(items)</code>. For the <code>items</code>
 parameter see <a href="../libraries/pl.xml.html#elem">xml.elem</a>.
    </ol>


    <h3>See also:</h3>
    <ul>
         <a href="../libraries/pl.xml.html#elem">xml.elem</a>
    </ul>

    <h3>Usage:</h3>
    <ul>
        <pre class="example"><span class="keyword">local</span> new_parent, new_child = xml.<span class="function-name">tags</span> <span class="string">'mom, kid'</span>
doc = <span class="function-name">new_parent</span> {<span class="function-name">new_child</span> <span class="string">'Bob'</span>, <span class="function-name">new_child</span> <span class="string">'Annie'</span>}
<span class="comment">-- &lt;mom&gt;&lt;kid&gt;Bob&lt;/kid&gt;&lt;kid&gt;Annie&lt;/kid&gt;&lt;/mom&gt;</span></pre>
    </ul>

</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:addtag"></a>
    <strong>Doc:addtag (tag[, attrs={}])</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Adds a document Node, at current position.
 This updates the last inserted position to the new Node.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">tag</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         the tag name
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">attrs</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.6">table</a></span>
         attributes (table of name-value pairs)
         (<em>default</em> {})
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        the current node (<code>self</code>)
    </ol>



    <h3>Usage:</h3>
    <ul>
        <pre class="example"><span class="keyword">local</span> doc = xml.<span class="function-name">new</span>(<span class="string">"main"</span>)
doc:<span class="function-name">addtag</span>(<span class="string">"penlight"</span>, { hello = <span class="string">"world"</span>})
doc:<span class="function-name">addtag</span>(<span class="string">"expat"</span>)  <span class="comment">-- added to 'penlight' since position moved
</span><span class="global">print</span>(doc)  <span class="comment">--&gt;  &lt;main&gt;&lt;penlight hello='world'&gt;&lt;expat/&gt;&lt;/penlight&gt;&lt;/main&gt;</span></pre>
    </ul>

</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:text"></a>
    <strong>Doc:text (text)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Adds a text node, at current position.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">text</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         a string
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        the current node (<code>self</code>)
    </ol>



    <h3>Usage:</h3>
    <ul>
        <pre class="example"><span class="keyword">local</span> doc = xml.<span class="function-name">new</span>(<span class="string">"main"</span>)
doc:<span class="function-name">text</span>(<span class="string">"penlight"</span>)
doc:<span class="function-name">text</span>(<span class="string">"expat"</span>)
<span class="global">print</span>(doc)  <span class="comment">--&gt;  &lt;main&gt;&lt;penlightexpat&lt;/main&gt;</span></pre>
    </ul>

</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:up"></a>
    <strong>Doc:up ()</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Moves current position up one level.



    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        the current node (<code>self</code>)
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:reset"></a>
    <strong>Doc:reset ()</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Resets current position to top level.
 Resets to the <code>self</code> node.



    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        the current node (<code>self</code>)
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:add_direct_child"></a>
    <strong>Doc:add_direct_child (child)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Append a child to the current Node (ignoring current position).


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">child</span>
         a child node (either text or a document)
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        the current node (<code>self</code>)
    </ol>



    <h3>Usage:</h3>
    <ul>
        <pre class="example"><span class="keyword">local</span> doc = xml.<span class="function-name">new</span>(<span class="string">"main"</span>)
doc:<span class="function-name">add_direct_child</span>(<span class="string">"dog"</span>)
doc:<span class="function-name">add_direct_child</span>(xml.<span class="function-name">new</span>(<span class="string">"child"</span>))
doc:<span class="function-name">add_direct_child</span>(<span class="string">"cat"</span>)
<span class="global">print</span>(doc)  <span class="comment">--&gt;  &lt;main&gt;dog&lt;child/&gt;cat&lt;/main&gt;</span></pre>
    </ul>

</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:add_child"></a>
    <strong>Doc:add_child (child)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Append a child at the current position (without changing position).


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">child</span>
         a child node (either text or a document)
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        the current node (<code>self</code>)
    </ol>



    <h3>Usage:</h3>
    <ul>
        <pre class="example"><span class="keyword">local</span> doc = xml.<span class="function-name">new</span>(<span class="string">"main"</span>)
doc:<span class="function-name">addtag</span>(<span class="string">"one"</span>)
doc:<span class="function-name">add_child</span>(xml.<span class="function-name">new</span>(<span class="string">"item1"</span>))
doc:<span class="function-name">add_child</span>(xml.<span class="function-name">new</span>(<span class="string">"item2"</span>))
doc:<span class="function-name">add_child</span>(xml.<span class="function-name">new</span>(<span class="string">"item3"</span>))
<span class="global">print</span>(doc)  <span class="comment">--&gt;  &lt;main&gt;&lt;one&gt;&lt;item1/&gt;&lt;item2/&gt;&lt;item3/&gt;&lt;/one&gt;&lt;/main&gt;</span></pre>
    </ul>

</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:set_attribs"></a>
    <strong>Doc:set_attribs (t)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Set attributes of a document node.
 Will add/overwrite values, but will not remove existing ones.
 Operates on the Node itself, will not take position into account.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">t</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.6">table</a></span>
         a table containing attribute/value pairs
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        the current node (<code>self</code>)
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:set_attrib"></a>
    <strong>Doc:set_attrib (a, v)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Set a single attribute of a document node.
 Operates on the Node itself, will not take position into account.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">a</span>
         attribute
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">v</span>
         its value, pass in <code>nil</code> to delete the attribute
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        the current node (<code>self</code>)
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:get_attribs"></a>
    <strong>Doc:get_attribs ()</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Gets the attributes of a document node.
 Operates on the Node itself, will not take position into account.



    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        table with attributes (attribute/value pairs)
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc.subst"></a>
    <strong>Doc.subst (template, data)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    create a substituted copy of a document,


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">template</span>
         may be a document or a string representation which will be parsed and cached
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">data</span>
         a table of name-value pairs or a list of such tables
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        an XML document
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:child_with_name"></a>
    <strong>Doc:child_with_name (tag)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Return the first child with a given tag name (non-recursive).


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">tag</span>
         the tag name
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        the child Node found or <code>nil</code> if not found
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:get_elements_with_name"></a>
    <strong>Doc:get_elements_with_name (tag[, dont_recurse=false])</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Returns all elements in a document that have a given tag.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">tag</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         a tag name
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">dont_recurse</span>
            <span class="types"><span class="type">boolean</span></span>
         optionally only return the immediate children with this tag name
         (<em>default</em> false)
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        a list of elements found, list will be empty if none was found.
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:children"></a>
    <strong>Doc:children ()</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Iterator over all children of a document node, including text nodes.
 This function is not recursive, so returns only direct child nodes.



    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        iterator that returns a single Node per iteration.
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:first_childtag"></a>
    <strong>Doc:first_childtag ()</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Return the first child element of a node, if it exists.
 This will skip text nodes.



    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        first child Node or <code>nil</code> if there is none.
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:matching_tags"></a>
    <strong>Doc:matching_tags ([tag=nil[, xmlns=nil]])</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Iterator that matches tag names, and a namespace (non-recursive).


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">tag</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         tag names to return. Returns all tags if not provided.
         (<em>default</em> nil)
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">xmlns</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         the namespace value ('xmlns' attribute) to return. If not
 provided will match all namespaces.
         (<em>default</em> nil)
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        iterator that returns a single Node per iteration.
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:childtags"></a>
    <strong>Doc:childtags ()</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Iterator over all child tags of a document node.  This will skip over
 text nodes.



    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        iterator that returns a single Node per iteration.
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:maptags"></a>
    <strong>Doc:maptags (callback)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Visit child Nodes of a node and call a function, possibly modifying the document.
 Text elements will be skipped.
 This is not recursive, so only direct children will be passed.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">callback</span>
            <span class="types"><span class="type">function</span></span>
         a function with signature <code>function(node)</code>, passed the node.
 The element will be updated with the returned value, or deleted if it returns <code>nil</code>.
        </li>
    </ul>





</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "xml_escape"></a>
    <strong>xml_escape (str)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Escapes a string for safe use in xml.
 Handles quotes(single+double), less-than, greater-than, and ampersand.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">str</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         string value to escape
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        escaped string
    </ol>



    <h3>Usage:</h3>
    <ul>
        <pre class="example"><span class="keyword">local</span> esc = xml.<span class="function-name">xml_escape</span>(<span class="string">[["'&lt;&gt;&amp;]]</span>)  <span class="comment">--&gt; "&amp;quot;&amp;apos;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;"</span></pre>
    </ul>

</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "xml_unescape"></a>
    <strong>xml_unescape (str)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Unescapes a string from xml.
 Handles quotes(single+double), less-than, greater-than, and ampersand.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">str</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         string value to unescape
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        unescaped string
    </ol>



    <h3>Usage:</h3>
    <ul>
        <pre class="example"><span class="keyword">local</span> unesc = xml.<span class="function-name">xml_escape</span>(<span class="string">"&amp;quot;&amp;apos;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;"</span>)  <span class="comment">--&gt; [["'&lt;&gt;&amp;]]</span></pre>
    </ul>

</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "tostring"></a>
    <strong>tostring (doc[, b_ind[, t_ind[, a_ind[, xml_preface]]]])</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Function to pretty-print an XML document.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">doc</span>
         an XML document
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">b_ind</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a> or <span class="type">int</span></span>
         an initial block-indent (required when <code>t_ind</code> is set)
         (<em>optional</em>)
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">t_ind</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a> or <span class="type">int</span></span>
         an tag-indent for each level (required when <code>a_ind</code> is set)
         (<em>optional</em>)
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">a_ind</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a> or <span class="type">int</span></span>
         if given, indent each attribute pair and put on a separate line
         (<em>optional</em>)
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">xml_preface</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a> or <span class="type">bool</span></span>
         force prefacing with default or custom <?xml...>, if truthy then <code>&amp;lt;?xml version=&apos;1.0&apos;?&amp;gt;</code> will be used as default.
         (<em>optional</em>)
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        a string representation
    </ol>


    <h3>See also:</h3>
    <ul>
         <a href="../libraries/pl.xml.html#Doc:tostring">Doc:tostring</a>
    </ul>


</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:tostring"></a>
    <strong>Doc:tostring ([b_ind[, t_ind[, a_ind[, xml_preface="&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt;"]]]])</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Method to pretty-print an XML document.
 Invokes <a href="../libraries/pl.xml.html#tostring">xml.tostring</a>.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">b_ind</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a> or <span class="type">int</span></span>
         an initial indent (required when <code>t_ind</code> is set)
         (<em>optional</em>)
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">t_ind</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a> or <span class="type">int</span></span>
         an indent for each level (required when <code>a_ind</code> is set)
         (<em>optional</em>)
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">a_ind</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a> or <span class="type">int</span></span>
         if given, indent each attribute pair and put on a separate line
         (<em>optional</em>)
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">xml_preface</span>
            <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         force prefacing with default or custom <?xml...>
         (<em>default</em> "&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt;")
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        a string representation
    </ol>


    <h3>See also:</h3>
    <ul>
         <a href="../libraries/pl.xml.html#tostring">xml.tostring</a>
    </ul>


</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:get_text"></a>
    <strong>Doc:get_text ()</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    get the full text value of an element.



    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        a single string with all text elements concatenated
    </ol>



    <h3>Usage:</h3>
    <ul>
        <pre class="example"><span class="keyword">local</span> doc = xml.<span class="function-name">new</span>(<span class="string">"main"</span>)
doc:<span class="function-name">text</span>(<span class="string">"one"</span>)
doc:<span class="function-name">add_child</span>(xml.<span class="function-name">elem</span> <span class="string">"two"</span>)
doc:<span class="function-name">text</span>(<span class="string">"three"</span>)

<span class="keyword">local</span> t = doc:<span class="function-name">get_text</span>()    <span class="comment">--&gt;  "onethree"</span></pre>
    </ul>

</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "clone"></a>
    <strong>clone (doc[, strsubst])</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>

<p>Returns a copy of a document.
 The <code>strsubst</code> parameter is a callback with signature <code>function(object, kind, parent)</code>.</p>

<p> Param <code>kind</code> has the following values, and parameters:</p>

<ul>
    <li><p><code>&quot;*TAG&quot;</code>: <code>object</code> is the tag-name, <code>parent</code> is the Node object. Returns the new tag name.</p></li>
    <li><p><code>&quot;*TEXT&quot;</code>: <code>object</code> is the text-element, <code>parent</code> is the Node object. Returns the new text value.</p></li>
    <li><p>other strings not prefixed with <code>*</code>: <code>kind</code> is the attribute name, <code>object</code> is the
    attribute value, <code>parent</code> is the Node object. Returns the new attribute value.</p></li>
</ul>




    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">doc</span>
            <span class="types"><span class="type">Node</span> or <a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         a Node object or string (text node)
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">strsubst</span>
            <span class="types"><span class="type">function</span></span>
         an optional function for handling string copying
 which could do substitution, etc.
         (<em>optional</em>)
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

        copy of the document
    </ol>


    <h3>See also:</h3>
    <ul>
         <a href="../libraries/pl.xml.html#Doc:filter">Doc:filter</a>
    </ul>


</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:filter"></a>
    <strong>Doc:filter ([strsubst])</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Returns a copy of a document.
 This is the method version of <a href="../libraries/pl.xml.html#clone">xml.clone</a>.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">strsubst</span>
            <span class="types"><span class="type">function</span></span>
         an optional function for handling string copying
         (<em>optional</em>)
        </li>
    </ul>



    <h3>See also:</h3>
    <ul>
         <a href="../libraries/pl.xml.html#clone">xml.clone</a>
    </ul>


</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "compare"></a>
    <strong>compare (t1, t2)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Compare two documents or elements.
 Equality is based on tag, child nodes (text and tags), attributes and order
 of those (order only fails if both are given, and not equal).


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">t1</span>
            <span class="types"><span class="type">Node</span> or <a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         a Node object or string (text node)
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">t2</span>
            <span class="types"><span class="type">Node</span> or <a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         a Node object or string (text node)
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

           <span class="types"><span class="type">boolean</span></span>
        <code>true</code> when the Nodes are equal.
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "is_tag"></a>
    <strong>is_tag (d)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    is this value a document element?


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">d</span>
         any value
        </li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Returns:</h3>
    <ol>

           <span class="types"><span class="type">boolean</span></span>
        <code>true</code> if it is a <a href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.6">table</a> with property <code>tag</code> being a string value.
    </ol>




</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "walk"></a>
    <strong>walk (doc, depth_first, operation)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Calls a function recursively over Nodes in the document.
 Will only call on tags, it will skip text nodes.
 The function signature for <code>operation</code> is <code>function(tag_name, Node)</code>.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">doc</span>
            <span class="types"><span class="type">Node</span> or <a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#6.4">string</a></span>
         a Node object or string (text node)
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">depth_first</span>
            <span class="types"><span class="type">boolean</span></span>
         visit child nodes first, then the current node
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">operation</span>
            <span class="types"><span class="type">function</span></span>
         a function which will receive the current tag name and current node.
        </li>
    </ul>





</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "parsehtml"></a>
    <strong>parsehtml (s)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Parse a well-formed HTML file as a string.
 Tags are case-insensitive, DOCTYPE is ignored, and empty elements can be .. empty.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">s</span>
         the HTML
        </li>
    </ul>





</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "basic_parse"></a>
    <strong>basic_parse (s, all_text, html)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    Parse a simple XML document using a pure Lua parser based on Robero Ierusalimschy's original version.


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">s</span>
         the XML document to be parsed.
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">all_text</span>
          if true, preserves all whitespace. Otherwise only text containing non-whitespace is included.
        </li>
        <li><span class="parameter">html</span>
         if true, uses relaxed HTML rules for parsing
        </li>
    </ul>





</dd>
    <dt>
    <a name = "Doc:match"></a>
    <strong>Doc:match (pat)</strong>
    </dt>
    <dd>
    does something...


    <h3>Parameters:</h3>
    <ul>
        <li><span class="parameter">pat</span>



        </li>
    </ul>





</dd>
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