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XML::LibXML::Node (3)

Name

XML::LibXML::Node - Abstract Base Class of XML::LibXML Nodes

Synopsis

use XML::LibXML;

$name = $node->nodeName;
$node->setNodeName( $newName );
$bool = $node->isSameNode( $other_node );
$bool = $node->isEqual( $other_node );
$num = $node->unique_key;
$content = $node->nodeValue;
$content = $node->textContent;
$type = $node->nodeType;
$node->unbindNode();
$childnode = $node->removeChild( $childnode );
$oldnode = $node->replaceChild( $newNode, $oldNode );
$node->replaceNode($newNode);
$childnode = $node->appendChild( $childnode );
$childnode = $node->addChild( $childnode );
$node = $parent->addNewChild( $nsURI, $name );
$node->addSibling($newNode);
$newnode =$node->cloneNode( $deep );
$parentnode = $node->parentNode;
$nextnode = $node->nextSibling();
$nextnode = $node->nextNonBlankSibling();
$prevnode = $node->previousSibling();
$prevnode = $node->previousNonBlankSibling();
$boolean = $node->hasChildNodes();
$childnode = $node->firstChild;
$childnode = $node->lastChild;
$documentnode = $node->ownerDocument;
$node = $node->getOwner;
$node->setOwnerDocument( $doc );
$node->insertBefore( $newNode, $refNode );
$node->insertAfter( $newNode, $refNode );
@nodes = $node->findnodes( $xpath_expression );
$result = $node->find( $xpath );
print $node->findvalue( $xpath );
$bool = $node->exists( $xpath_expression );
@childnodes = $node->childNodes();
@childnodes = $node->nonBlankChildNodes();
$xmlstring = $node->toString($format,$docencoding);
$c14nstring = $node->toStringC14N();
$c14nstring = $node->toStringC14N($with_comments, $xpath_expression , $xpath_context);
$c14nstring = $node->toStringC14N_v1_1();
$c14nstring = $node->toStringC14N_v1_1($with_comments, $xpath_expression , $xpath_context);
$ec14nstring = $node->toStringEC14N();
$ec14nstring = $node->toStringEC14N($with_comments, $xpath_expression, $inclusive_prefix_list);
$ec14nstring = $node->toStringEC14N($with_comments, $xpath_expression, $xpath_context, $inclusive_prefix_list);
$str = $doc->serialize($format);
$localname = $node->localname;
$nameprefix = $node->prefix;
$uri = $node->namespaceURI();
$boolean = $node->hasAttributes();
@attributelist = $node->attributes();
$URI = $node->lookupNamespaceURI( $prefix );
$prefix = $node->lookupNamespacePrefix( $URI );
$node->normalize;
@nslist = $node->getNamespaces;
$node->removeChildNodes();
$strURI = $node->baseURI();
$node->setBaseURI($strURI);
$node->nodePath();
$lineno = $node->line_number();

Description

User Contributed Perl Documentation                       XML::LibXML::Node(3)



NAME
       XML::LibXML::Node - Abstract Base Class of XML::LibXML Nodes

SYNOPSIS
         use XML::LibXML;

         $name = $node->nodeName;
         $node->setNodeName( $newName );
         $bool = $node->isSameNode( $other_node );
         $bool = $node->isEqual( $other_node );
         $num = $node->unique_key;
         $content = $node->nodeValue;
         $content = $node->textContent;
         $type = $node->nodeType;
         $node->unbindNode();
         $childnode = $node->removeChild( $childnode );
         $oldnode = $node->replaceChild( $newNode, $oldNode );
         $node->replaceNode($newNode);
         $childnode = $node->appendChild( $childnode );
         $childnode = $node->addChild( $childnode );
         $node = $parent->addNewChild( $nsURI, $name );
         $node->addSibling($newNode);
         $newnode =$node->cloneNode( $deep );
         $parentnode = $node->parentNode;
         $nextnode = $node->nextSibling();
         $nextnode = $node->nextNonBlankSibling();
         $prevnode = $node->previousSibling();
         $prevnode = $node->previousNonBlankSibling();
         $boolean = $node->hasChildNodes();
         $childnode = $node->firstChild;
         $childnode = $node->lastChild;
         $documentnode = $node->ownerDocument;
         $node = $node->getOwner;
         $node->setOwnerDocument( $doc );
         $node->insertBefore( $newNode, $refNode );
         $node->insertAfter( $newNode, $refNode );
         @nodes = $node->findnodes( $xpath_expression );
         $result = $node->find( $xpath );
         print $node->findvalue( $xpath );
         $bool = $node->exists( $xpath_expression );
         @childnodes = $node->childNodes();
         @childnodes = $node->nonBlankChildNodes();
         $xmlstring = $node->toString($format,$docencoding);
         $c14nstring = $node->toStringC14N();
         $c14nstring = $node->toStringC14N($with_comments, $xpath_expression , $xpath_context);
         $c14nstring = $node->toStringC14N_v1_1();
         $c14nstring = $node->toStringC14N_v1_1($with_comments, $xpath_expression , $xpath_context);
         $ec14nstring = $node->toStringEC14N();
         $ec14nstring = $node->toStringEC14N($with_comments, $xpath_expression, $inclusive_prefix_list);
         $ec14nstring = $node->toStringEC14N($with_comments, $xpath_expression, $xpath_context, $inclusive_prefix_list);
         $str = $doc->serialize($format);
         $localname = $node->localname;
         $nameprefix = $node->prefix;
         $uri = $node->namespaceURI();
         $boolean = $node->hasAttributes();
         @attributelist = $node->attributes();
         $URI = $node->lookupNamespaceURI( $prefix );
         $prefix = $node->lookupNamespacePrefix( $URI );
         $node->normalize;
         @nslist = $node->getNamespaces;
         $node->removeChildNodes();
         $strURI = $node->baseURI();
         $node->setBaseURI($strURI);
         $node->nodePath();
         $lineno = $node->line_number();

DESCRIPTION
       XML::LibXML::Node defines functions that are common to all Node Types.
       An XML::LibXML::Node should never be created standalone, but as an
       instance of a high level class such as XML::LibXML::Element or
       XML::LibXML::Text. The class itself should provide only common
       functionality. In XML::LibXML each node is part either of a document or
       a document-fragment. Because of this there is no node without a parent.
       This may causes confusion with "unbound" nodes.

METHODS
       Many functions listed here are extensively documented in the DOM Level
       3 specification (<http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/>). Please
       refer to the specification for extensive documentation.

       nodeName
             $name = $node->nodeName;

           Returns the node's name. This function is aware of namespaces and
           returns the full name of the current node ("prefix:localname").

           Since 1.62 this function also returns the correct DOM names for
           node types with constant names, namely: #text, #cdata-section,
           #comment, #document, #document-fragment.

       setNodeName
             $node->setNodeName( $newName );

           In very limited situations, it is useful to change a nodes name. In
           the DOM specification this should throw an error. This Function is
           aware of namespaces.

       isSameNode
             $bool = $node->isSameNode( $other_node );

           returns TRUE (1) if the given nodes refer to the same node
           structure, otherwise FALSE (0) is returned.

       isEqual
             $bool = $node->isEqual( $other_node );

           deprecated version of isSameNode().

           NOTE isEqual will change behaviour to follow the DOM specification

       unique_key
             $num = $node->unique_key;

           This function is not specified for any DOM level. It returns a key
           guaranteed to be unique for this node, and to always be the same
           value for this node. In other words, two node objects return the
           same key if and only if isSameNode indicates that they are the same
           node.

           The returned key value is useful as a key in hashes.

       nodeValue
             $content = $node->nodeValue;

           If the node has any content (such as stored in a "text node") it
           can get requested through this function.

           NOTE: Element Nodes have no content per definition. To get the text
           value of an Element use textContent() instead!

       textContent
             $content = $node->textContent;

           this function returns the content of all text nodes in the
           descendants of the given node as specified in DOM.

       nodeType
             $type = $node->nodeType;

           Return a numeric value representing the node type of this node. The
           module XML::LibXML by default exports constants for the node types
           (see the EXPORT section in the XML::LibXML manual page).

       unbindNode
             $node->unbindNode();

           Unbinds the Node from its siblings and Parent, but not from the
           Document it belongs to. If the node is not inserted into the DOM
           afterwards, it will be lost after the program terminates. From a
           low level view, the unbound node is stripped from the context it is
           and inserted into a (hidden) document-fragment.

       removeChild
             $childnode = $node->removeChild( $childnode );

           This will unbind the Child Node from its parent $node. The function
           returns the unbound node. If "oldNode" is not a child of the given
           Node the function will fail.

       replaceChild
             $oldnode = $node->replaceChild( $newNode, $oldNode );

           Replaces the $oldNode with the $newNode. The $oldNode will be
           unbound from the Node. This function differs from the DOM L2
           specification, in the case, if the new node is not part of the
           document, the node will be imported first.

       replaceNode
             $node->replaceNode($newNode);

           This function is very similar to replaceChild(), but it replaces
           the node itself rather than a childnode. This is useful if a node
           found by any XPath function, should be replaced.

       appendChild
             $childnode = $node->appendChild( $childnode );

           The function will add the $childnode to the end of $node's
           children. The function should fail, if the new childnode is already
           a child of $node. This function differs from the DOM L2
           specification, in the case, if the new node is not part of the
           document, the node will be imported first.

       addChild
             $childnode = $node->addChild( $childnode );

           As an alternative to appendChild() one can use the addChild()
           function. This function is a bit faster, because it avoids all DOM
           conformity checks.  Therefore this function is quite useful if one
           builds XML documents in memory where the order and ownership
           ("ownerDocument") is assured.

           addChild() uses libxml2's own xmlAddChild() function. Thus it has
           to be used with extra care: If a text node is added to a node and
           the node itself or its last childnode is as well a text node, the
           node to add will be merged with the one already available. The
           current node will be removed from memory after this action. Because
           perl is not aware of this action, the perl instance is still
           available. XML::LibXML will catch the loss of a node and refuse to
           run any function called on that node.

             my $t1 = $doc->createTextNode( "foo" );
              my $t2 = $doc->createTextNode( "bar" );
              $t1->addChild( $t2 );       # is OK
              my $val = $t2->nodeValue(); # will fail, script dies

           Also addChild() will not check if the added node belongs to the
           same document as the node it will be added to. This could lead to
           inconsistent documents and in more worse cases even to memory
           violations, if one does not keep track of this issue.

           Although this sounds like a lot of trouble, addChild() is useful if
           a document is built from a stream, such as happens sometimes in SAX
           handlers or filters.

           If you are not sure about the source of your nodes, you better stay
           with appendChild(), because this function is more user friendly in
           the sense of being more error tolerant.

       addNewChild
             $node = $parent->addNewChild( $nsURI, $name );

           Similar to "addChild()", this function uses low level libxml2
           functionality to provide faster interface for DOM building.
           addNewChild() uses "xmlNewChild()" to create a new node on a given
           parent element.

           addNewChild() has two parameters $nsURI and $name, where $nsURI is
           an (optional) namespace URI. $name is the fully qualified element
           name; addNewChild() will determine the correct prefix if necessary.

           The function returns the newly created node.

           This function is very useful for DOM building, where a created node
           can be directly associated with its parent. NOTE this function is
           not part of the DOM specification and its use will limit your code
           to XML::LibXML.

       addSibling
             $node->addSibling($newNode);

           addSibling() allows adding an additional node to the end of a
           nodelist, defined by the given node.

       cloneNode
             $newnode =$node->cloneNode( $deep );

           cloneNode creates a copy of $node. When $deep is set to 1 (true)
           the function will copy all child nodes as well.  If $deep is 0 only
           the current node will be copied. Note that in case of element,
           attributes are copied even if $deep is 0.

           Note that the behavior of this function for $deep=0 has changed in
           1.62 in order to be consistent with the DOM spec (in older versions
           attributes and namespace information was not copied for elements).

       parentNode
             $parentnode = $node->parentNode;

           Returns simply the Parent Node of the current node.

       nextSibling
             $nextnode = $node->nextSibling();

           Returns the next sibling if any .

       nextNonBlankSibling
             $nextnode = $node->nextNonBlankSibling();

           Returns the next non-blank sibling if any (a node is blank if it is
           a Text or CDATA node consisting of whitespace only). This method is
           not defined by DOM.

       previousSibling
             $prevnode = $node->previousSibling();

           Analogous to getNextSibling the function returns the previous
           sibling if any.

       previousNonBlankSibling
             $prevnode = $node->previousNonBlankSibling();

           Returns the previous non-blank sibling if any (a node is blank if
           it is a Text or CDATA node consisting of whitespace only). This
           method is not defined by DOM.

       hasChildNodes
             $boolean = $node->hasChildNodes();

           If the current node has child nodes this function returns TRUE (1),
           otherwise it returns FALSE (0, not undef).

       firstChild
             $childnode = $node->firstChild;

           If a node has child nodes this function will return the first node
           in the child list.

       lastChild
             $childnode = $node->lastChild;

           If the $node has child nodes this function returns the last child
           node.

       ownerDocument
             $documentnode = $node->ownerDocument;

           Through this function it is always possible to access the document
           the current node is bound to.

       getOwner
             $node = $node->getOwner;

           This function returns the node the current node is associated with.
           In most cases this will be a document node or a document fragment
           node.

       setOwnerDocument
             $node->setOwnerDocument( $doc );

           This function binds a node to another DOM. This method unbinds the
           node first, if it is already bound to another document.

           This function is the opposite calling of XML::LibXML::Document's
           adoptNode() function. Because of this it has the same limitations
           with Entity References as adoptNode().

       insertBefore
             $node->insertBefore( $newNode, $refNode );

           The method inserts $newNode before $refNode. If $refNode is
           undefined, the newNode will be set as the new last child of the
           parent node.  This function differs from the DOM L2 specification,
           in the case, if the new node is not part of the document, the node
           will be imported first, automatically.

           $refNode has to be passed to the function even if it is undefined:

             $node->insertBefore( $newNode, undef ); # the same as $node->appendChild( $newNode );
              $node->insertBefore( $newNode ); # wrong

           Note, that the reference node has to be a direct child of the node
           the function is called on. Also, $newChild is not allowed to be an
           ancestor of the new parent node.

       insertAfter
             $node->insertAfter( $newNode, $refNode );

           The method inserts $newNode after $refNode. If $refNode is
           undefined, the newNode will be set as the new last child of the
           parent node.

           Note, that $refNode has to be passed explicitly even if it is
           undef.

       findnodes
             @nodes = $node->findnodes( $xpath_expression );

           findnodes evaluates the xpath expression (XPath 1.0) on the current
           node and returns the resulting node set as an array. In scalar
           context, returns an XML::LibXML::NodeList object.

           The xpath expression can be passed either as a string, or as a
           XML::LibXML::XPathExpression object.

           NOTE ON NAMESPACES AND XPATH:

           A common mistake about XPath is to assume that node tests
           consisting of an element name with no prefix match elements in the
           default namespace. This assumption is wrong - by XPath
           specification, such node tests can only match elements that are in
           no (i.e. null) namespace.

           So, for example, one cannot match the root element of an XHTML
           document with "$node->find('/html')" since '/html' would only match
           if the root element "<html>" had no namespace, but all XHTML
           elements belong to the namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml.
           (Note that "xmlns="..."" namespace declarations can also be
           specified in a DTD, which makes the situation even worse, since the
           XML document looks as if there was no default namespace).

           There are several possible ways to deal with namespaces in XPath:

           o   The recommended way is to use the XML::LibXML::XPathContext
               module to define an explicit context for XPath evaluation, in
               which a document independent prefix-to-namespace mapping can be
               defined. For example:

                 my $xpc = XML::LibXML::XPathContext->new;
                 $xpc->registerNs('x', 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml');
                 $xpc->find('/x:html',$node);

           o   Another possibility is to use prefixes declared in the queried
               document (if known). If the document declares a prefix for the
               namespace in question (and the context node is in the scope of
               the declaration), "XML::LibXML" allows you to use the prefix in
               the XPath expression, e.g.:

                 $node->find('/x:html');

           See also XML::LibXML::XPathContext->findnodes.

       find
             $result = $node->find( $xpath );

           find evaluates the XPath 1.0 expression using the current node as
           the context of the expression, and returns the result depending on
           what type of result the XPath expression had. For example, the
           XPath "1 * 3 + 52" results in a XML::LibXML::Number object being
           returned. Other expressions might return an XML::LibXML::Boolean
           object, or an XML::LibXML::Literal object (a string). Each of those
           objects uses Perl's overload feature to "do the right thing" in
           different contexts.

           The xpath expression can be passed either as a string, or as a
           XML::LibXML::XPathExpression object.

           See also XML::LibXML::XPathContext->find.

       findvalue
             print $node->findvalue( $xpath );

           findvalue is exactly equivalent to:

             $node->find( $xpath )->to_literal;

           That is, it returns the literal value of the results. This enables
           you to ensure that you get a string back from your search, allowing
           certain shortcuts.  This could be used as the equivalent of XSLT's
           <xsl:value-of select="some_xpath"/>.

           See also XML::LibXML::XPathContext->findvalue.

           The xpath expression can be passed either as a string, or as a
           XML::LibXML::XPathExpression object.

       exists
             $bool = $node->exists( $xpath_expression );

           This method behaves like findnodes, except that it only returns a
           boolean value (1 if the expression matches a node, 0 otherwise) and
           may be faster than findnodes, because the XPath evaluation may stop
           early on the first match (this is true for libxml2 >= 2.6.27).

           For XPath expressions that do not return node-set, the method
           returns true if the returned value is a non-zero number or a non-
           empty string.

       childNodes
             @childnodes = $node->childNodes();

           childNodes implements a more intuitive interface to the childnodes
           of the current node. It enables you to pass all children directly
           to a "map" or "grep". If this function is called in scalar context,
           a XML::LibXML::NodeList object will be returned.

       nonBlankChildNodes
             @childnodes = $node->nonBlankChildNodes();

           This is like childNodes, but returns only non-blank nodes (where a
           node is blank if it is a Text or CDATA node consisting of
           whitespace only). This method is not defined by DOM.

       toString
             $xmlstring = $node->toString($format,$docencoding);

           This method is similar to the method "toString" of a
           XML::LibXML::Document but for a single node. It returns a string
           consisting of XML serialization of the given node and all its
           descendants. Unlike "XML::LibXML::Document::toString", in this case
           the resulting string is by default a character string (UTF-8
           encoded with UTF8 flag on). An optional flag $format controls
           indentation, as in "XML::LibXML::Document::toString". If the second
           optional $docencoding flag is true, the result will be a byte
           string in the document encoding (see
           "XML::LibXML::Document::actualEncoding").

       toStringC14N
             $c14nstring = $node->toStringC14N();
             $c14nstring = $node->toStringC14N($with_comments, $xpath_expression , $xpath_context);

           The function is similar to toString(). Instead of simply
           serializing the document tree, it transforms it as it is specified
           in the XML-C14N Specification (see
           <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n>). Such transformation is known as
           canonization.

           If $with_comments is 0 or not defined, the result-document will not
           contain any comments that exist in the original document. To
           include comments into the canonized document, $with_comments has to
           be set to 1.

           The parameter $xpath_expression defines the nodeset of nodes that
           should be visible in the resulting document. This can be used to
           filter out some nodes.  One has to note, that only the nodes that
           are part of the nodeset, will be included into the result-document.
           Their child-nodes will not exist in the resulting document, unless
           they are part of the nodeset defined by the xpath expression.

           If $xpath_expression is omitted or empty, toStringC14N() will
           include all nodes in the given sub-tree, using the following XPath
           expressions: with comments

             (. | .//node() | .//@* | .//namespace::*)

           and without comments

             (. | .//node() | .//@* | .//namespace::*)[not(self::comment())]

           An optional parameter $xpath_context can be used to pass an
           XML::LibXML::XPathContext object defining the context for
           evaluation of $xpath_expression. This is useful for mapping
           namespace prefixes used in the XPath expression to namespace URIs.
           Note, however, that $node will be used as the context node for the
           evaluation, not the context node of $xpath_context!

       toStringC14N_v1_1
             $c14nstring = $node->toStringC14N_v1_1();
             $c14nstring = $node->toStringC14N_v1_1($with_comments, $xpath_expression , $xpath_context);

           This function behaves like toStringC14N() except that it uses the
           "XML_C14N_1_1" constant for canonicalising using the "C14N 1.1
           spec".

       toStringEC14N
             $ec14nstring = $node->toStringEC14N();
             $ec14nstring = $node->toStringEC14N($with_comments, $xpath_expression, $inclusive_prefix_list);
             $ec14nstring = $node->toStringEC14N($with_comments, $xpath_expression, $xpath_context, $inclusive_prefix_list);

           The function is similar to toStringC14N() but follows the
           XML-EXC-C14N Specification (see
           <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n>) for exclusive canonization of
           XML.

           The arguments $with_comments, $xpath_expression, $xpath_context are
           as in toStringC14N(). An ARRAY reference can be passed as the last
           argument $inclusive_prefix_list, listing namespace prefixes that
           are to be handled in the manner described by the Canonical XML
           Recommendation (i.e. preserved in the output even if the namespace
           is not used). C.f. the spec for details.

       serialize
             $str = $doc->serialize($format);

           An alias for toString(). This function was name added to be more
           consistent with libxml2.

       serialize_c14n
           An alias for toStringC14N().

       serialize_exc_c14n
           An alias for toStringEC14N().

       localname
             $localname = $node->localname;

           Returns the local name of a tag. This is the part behind the colon.

       prefix
             $nameprefix = $node->prefix;

           Returns the prefix of a tag. This is the part before the colon.

       namespaceURI
             $uri = $node->namespaceURI();

           returns the URI of the current namespace.

       hasAttributes
             $boolean = $node->hasAttributes();

           returns 1 (TRUE) if the current node has any attributes set,
           otherwise 0 (FALSE) is returned.

       attributes
             @attributelist = $node->attributes();

           This function returns all attributes and namespace declarations
           assigned to the given node.

           Because XML::LibXML does not implement namespace declarations and
           attributes the same way, it is required to test what kind of node
           is handled while accessing the functions result.

           If this function is called in array context the attribute nodes are
           returned as an array. In scalar context, the function will return a
           XML::LibXML::NamedNodeMap object.

       lookupNamespaceURI
             $URI = $node->lookupNamespaceURI( $prefix );

           Find a namespace URI by its prefix starting at the current node.

       lookupNamespacePrefix
             $prefix = $node->lookupNamespacePrefix( $URI );

           Find a namespace prefix by its URI starting at the current node.

           NOTE Only the namespace URIs are meant to be unique. The prefix is
           only document related. Also the document might have more than a
           single prefix defined for a namespace.

       normalize
             $node->normalize;

           This function normalizes adjacent text nodes. This function is not
           as strict as libxml2's xmlTextMerge() function, since it will not
           free a node that is still referenced by the perl layer.

       getNamespaces
             @nslist = $node->getNamespaces;

           If a node has any namespaces defined, this function will return
           these namespaces. Note, that this will not return all namespaces
           that are in scope, but only the ones declared explicitly for that
           node.

           Although getNamespaces is available for all nodes, it only makes
           sense if used with element nodes.

       removeChildNodes
             $node->removeChildNodes();

           This function is not specified for any DOM level: It removes all
           childnodes from a node in a single step. Other than the libxml2
           function itself (xmlFreeNodeList), this function will not
           immediately remove the nodes from the memory. This saves one from
           getting memory violations, if there are nodes still referred to
           from the Perl level.

       baseURI ()
             $strURI = $node->baseURI();

           Searches for the base URL of the node. The method should work on
           both XML and HTML documents even if base mechanisms for these are
           completely different. It returns the base as defined in RFC 2396
           sections "5.1.1. Base URI within Document Content" and "5.1.2. Base
           URI from the Encapsulating Entity". However it does not return the
           document base (5.1.3), use method "URI" of "XML::LibXML::Document"
           for this.

       setBaseURI ($strURI)
             $node->setBaseURI($strURI);

           This method only does something useful for an element node in an
           XML document.  It sets the xml:base attribute on the node to
           $strURI, which effectively sets the base URI of the node to the
           same value.

           Note: For HTML documents this behaves as if the document was XML
           which may not be desired, since it does not effectively set the
           base URI of the node. See RFC 2396 appendix D for an example of how
           base URI can be specified in HTML.

       nodePath
             $node->nodePath();

           This function is not specified for any DOM level: It returns a
           canonical structure based XPath for a given node.

       line_number
             $lineno = $node->line_number();

           This function returns the line number where the tag was found
           during parsing.  If a node is added to the document the line number
           is 0. Problems may occur, if a node from one document is passed to
           another one.

           IMPORTANT: Due to limitations in the libxml2 library line numbers
           greater than 65535 will be returned as 65535. Please see
           <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325533> for more
           details.

           Note: line_number() is special to XML::LibXML and not part of the
           DOM specification.

           If the line_numbers flag of the parser was not activated before
           parsing, line_number() will always return 0.

AUTHORS
       Matt Sergeant, Christian Glahn, Petr Pajas

VERSION
       2.0201

COPYRIGHT
       2001-2007, AxKit.com Ltd.

       2002-2006, Christian Glahn.

       2006-2009, Petr Pajas.

LICENSE
       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+-------------------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE         |
       +---------------+-------------------------------+
       |Availability   | library/perl-5/xml-libxml-532 |
       +---------------+-------------------------------+
       |Stability      | Volatile                      |
       +---------------+-------------------------------+

NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This software was built from source available at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.  The original community
       source was downloaded from
       http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-
       LibXML-2.0201.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/XML-LibXML/.



perl v5.32.0                      2019-05-25              XML::LibXML::Node(3)