Rest.XmlNode

Fields

Name	Type	Access	Description
attrs	{object: object}	r/w	a GLib.HashTable of string name to string values for the attributes of the element.
children	{object: object}	r/w	a GLib.HashTable of string name to Rest.XmlNode for the children of the element.
content	str	r/w	the textual content of the element
name	str	r/w	the name of the element
next	Rest.XmlNode	r/w	the sibling Rest.XmlNode with the same name
ref_count	int	r

Methods

	add_attr (attribute, value)
	add_child (tag)
	find (tag)
	get_attr (attr_name)
	print_ ()
	set_content (value)

Details

class Rest.XmlNode

The Rest.XmlNode contains a parsed XmlNode for easy consumption

add_attr(attribute, value)

Parameters:

• attribute (str) – name of the attribute

• value (str) – value to set attribute to

Adds attribute to the given node.

add_child(tag)

Parameters:

tag (str) – name of the child node

Returns:

the newly added Rest.XmlNode; the node object is owned by, and valid for the life time of, the #RestXmlCreator.

Return type:

Rest.XmlNode

Adds a new node to the given parent node; to create the top-level node, parent should be None.

find(tag)

Parameters:

tag (str) – the name of a node

Returns:

the first child node, or None if it doesn’t exist.

Return type:

Rest.XmlNode

Searches for the first child node of self named tag.

get_attr(attr_name)

Parameters:

attr_name (str) – the name of an attribute

Returns:

the attribute value. This string is owned by Rest.XmlNode and should not be freed.

Return type:

str

Get the value of the attribute named attr_name, or None if it doesn’t exist.

print_()

Returns:

xml string representing the node.

Return type:

str

Recursively outputs given node and it’s children.

set_content(value)

Parameters:

value (str) – the content

Sets content for the given node.