Name
node:name — Return the name of a node
Synopsis
require('xml');
node:name();
Description
This function returns the element name of a node and returns the string "text" for text nodes.
doc = xml.parsexml([[<doc></doc>]]); local node = doc:root(); local child = node:addchild("item"); child:attr("name", "Junior"); child:contents("I am a child node."); node:children(); for kid in child:children() do print(kid:name()); end
The code shown in “node:name example” results in the following output:
item text
If you remove the line, child:contents("I am a child node.");, from “node:name example”, item is all that will be output.
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