Turning xpath into dom manipulation tool as well about xpath HOT 5 CLOSED

How about xmlquery and htmlquery? this xpath package only works for XPath not provides DOM manipulate.

antchfx/xmlquery#38

https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/net/html#Node

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I don't quite understand what you are suggestion here. Maybe you can try explaining in Chinese? I understand that there is a similar request at antchfx/xmlquery#38, but I don't need xmlquery, but xpath. So,

Can we at least Expose the following *Node related helper functions first pls?

If there are other helper functions, like AddAttr, AddChild, AddSibling, RemoveFromTree. Would it be OK to expose them as well?

As I understand that xpath is a pure subset of xmlquery, so if xmlquery can do functions like AddAttr, AddChild, AddSibling, RemoveFromTree, then I see no reason why xpath cannot. Or, better yet, maybe letting xpath and xmlquery share the same xml node handling function is not a bad idea, since they are so similar.

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They said that XPath 1.0 is only focus on selection, but XPath 2.0's focus has been shifted to XML manipulation. I may have not express it well, but I don't need dom manipulation, I only need functions like AddAttr, AddChild, AddSibling, RemoveFromTree, onto the given located xpath node(s).

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Sorry for I didn't make it clear.

XPath is a document query package, it helps you easy find some matched in your document like HTML, XML, JSON and other document and don't need understand your DOM package. In htmlquery and xmlquery and jsonquery they are all implemented NodeNavigator interface, that means you can create owned DOM and supports XPATH query.

for example, you have a HTML document. when you get the returned HTML node, you can also do some other operations in your DOM package: AddAttribute, AppendChild,

for example:

node:= htmlquery.FindOne(doc,"//div")
node.AddAttribute("class","link") // in here, we assume HTML node have a AddAttribute() method.
node2:= htmlquery.FindOne(doc,"//div[@class='link']"

createChildNode and addAttribute in the xpath_test.go file are just convenient for testing.

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Ah, make sense. thx!

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