## cascading.operation.xml
Class XPathParser

    java.lang.Object
      cascading.operation.BaseOperation<DocumentBuilder>
          cascading.operation.xml.XPathOperation
              cascading.operation.xml.XPathParser

All Implemented Interfaces:
  Function<DocumentBuilder>, Operation<DocumentBuilder>, Serializable

    public class XPathParser

extends XPathOperation
implements Function<DocumentBuilder>

XPathParser will extract a value from the passed Tuple argument into a new Tuple field. One field for every given XPath expression will be created. This function effectively converts an XML document into a table.

If the returned value of the expression is a NodeList, only the first Node is used. The Node is converted to a new XML document and converted to a String. If only the text values are required, search on the text() nodes, or consider using `XPathGenerator` to handle multiple NodeList values.

See Also:
  Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class cascading.operation.xml.XPathOperation
`NAMESPACE_XHTML, namespaces, paths`

Fields inherited from class cascading.operation.BaseOperation
`fieldDeclaration, numArgs, trace`

Fields inherited from interface cascading.operation.Operation
`ANY`

Constructor Summary
`XPathParser(Fields fieldDeclaration, String... paths)` Constructor XPathParser creates a new XPathParser instance.
`XPathParser(Fields fieldDeclaration, String[][] namespaces, String... paths)` Constructor XPathParser creates a new XPathParser instance.

Method Summary
`void` `operate(FlowProcess flowProcess, FunctionCall<DocumentBuilder> functionCall)` Method operate provides the implementation of this Function.

Methods inherited from class cascading.operation.xml.XPathOperation
`equals, getExpressions, getTransformer, getXPath, hashCode, parseDocument, prepare, writeAsXML`

Methods inherited from class cascading.operation.BaseOperation
`cleanup, getFieldDeclaration, getNumArgs, getTrace, isSafe, printOperationInternal, toString, toStringInternal`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait`

Methods inherited from interface cascading.operation.Operation
`cleanup, getFieldDeclaration, getNumArgs, isSafe, prepare`

Constructor Detail

### XPathParser

    public XPathParser(Fields fieldDeclaration,
                       String[][] namespaces,
                       String... paths)

  Constructor XPathParser creates a new XPathParser instance.

  Parameters:
    `fieldDeclaration` - of type Fields
    `namespaces` - of type String[][]
    `paths` - of type String...

### XPathParser

    public XPathParser(Fields fieldDeclaration,
                       String... paths)

  Constructor XPathParser creates a new XPathParser instance.

  Parameters:
    `fieldDeclaration` - of type Fields
    `paths` - of type String...

Method Detail

### operate

    public void operate(FlowProcess flowProcess,
                        FunctionCall<DocumentBuilder> functionCall)

  Description copied from interface: `Function`
  Method operate provides the implementation of this Function.

  Specified by:
    `operate` in interface `Function<DocumentBuilder>`
  Parameters:
    `flowProcess` - of type FlowProcess
    `functionCall` - of type FunctionCall
  See Also:
    `Function.operate(cascading.flow.FlowProcess,cascading.operation.FunctionCall)`

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