XPathEvaluator

The XPathEvaluator interface allows to compile and evaluate XPath expressions.

Constructor

XPathEvaluator()

Creates a new XPathEvaluator object.

Instance methods

XPathEvaluator.createExpression()

Creates a parsed XPath expression with resolved namespaces.

XPathEvaluator.createNSResolver()

Adapts any DOM node to resolve namespaces allowing the XPath expression to be evaluated relative to the context of the node where it appeared within the document.

XPathEvaluator.evaluate()

Evaluates an XPath expression string and returns a result of the specified type if possible.

Example

Count the number of <div> elements

The following example shows the use of the XPathEvaluator interface.

HTML

html
<div>XPath example</div>
<div>Number of &lt;div&gt; elements: <output></output></div>

JavaScript

js
const xpath = "//div";
const evaluator = new XPathEvaluator();
const expression = evaluator.createExpression(xpath);
const result = expression.evaluate(
  document,
  XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
);
document.querySelector("output").textContent = result.snapshotLength;

Result

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard
# interface-xpathevaluator

Browser compatibility

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See also