Remove an element or a list of elements from their parents
xmlRemove(elems)
elems, a XMLElem or a XMLSet (result of XPath query) or a XMLlist (a children list)
Detach one or several elements from their parents. The detached elements are definitely lost.
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); | ![]() | ![]() |
Version | Description |
5.4.0 | XML module introduced. |