class Nokogiri::XML::EntityReference - nokogiri-1.10.3 Documentation

# class Nokogiri::XML::EntityReference

EntityReference represents an EntityReference node in an xml document.

### Public Class Methods

new(document, content) click to toggle source

Create a new EntityReference element on the `document` with `name`

    static VALUE new(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE klass)
    {
      xmlDocPtr xml_doc;
      xmlNodePtr node;
      VALUE document;
      VALUE name;
      VALUE rest;
      VALUE rb_node;

      rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "2*", &document, &name, &rest);

      Data_Get_Struct(document, xmlDoc, xml_doc);

      node = xmlNewReference(
          xml_doc,
          (const xmlChar *)StringValueCStr(name)
      );

      nokogiri_root_node(node);

      rb_node = Nokogiri_wrap_xml_node(klass, node);
      rb_obj_call_init(rb_node, argc, argv);

      if(rb_block_given_p()) rb_yield(rb_node);

      return rb_node;
    }

### Public Instance Methods

children() click to toggle source

    # File lib/nokogiri/xml/entity_reference.rb, line 4
    def children
      # libxml2 will create a malformed child node for predefined
      # entities. because any use of that child is likely to cause a
      # segfault, we shall pretend that it doesn't exist.
      #
      # see https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1238 for details
      NodeSet.new(document)
    end

inspect_attributes() click to toggle source

    # File lib/nokogiri/xml/entity_reference.rb, line 13
    def inspect_attributes
      [:name]
    end