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xmlRemove

Remove an element or a list of elements from their parents

Syntax

xmlRemove(elems)

Arguments

elems

elems, a XMLElem or a XMLSet (result of XPath query) or a XMLlist (a children list)

Description

Detach one or several elements from their parents. The detached elements are definitely lost.

Examples

doc = xmlReadStr("<root><a>Hello</a><b>Scilab</b><a>World</a></root>");

// Remove all the <a>
xp = xmlXPath(doc, "//a");
xmlRemove(xp);
xmlDump(doc)
xmlDelete(doc);

// Remove the first element
doc = xmlReadStr("<root><a>Hello</a><b>Scilab</b><a>World</a></root>");
xmlRemove(doc.root.children(1));
xmlDump(doc)

//Remove all the root children
xmlRemove(doc.root.children);
xmlDump(doc)

xmlDelete(doc);

See also

History

VersionDescription
5.4.0 XML module introduced.

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