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XPath object method · N/xml

select()

XPath.select(options)

Selects an array of nodes from an XML document using an XPath expression.

Implementation
Not started
Design
Open for proposals suggest how it should read
Proposals
A suitescript api
Signature
XPath.select(options)
Module
N/xml
Returns
xml.Node []
Governance
None
Script types
Client and server scripts
Version
SuiteScript 2.x, documented for 2.1; since NetSuite 2015.2
call shapefrom Oracle's parameter table
1objXPath.select({2    node:  /* xml.Node, required */,3    xpath: /* string, required */4});
Oracle reference for this method
ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
options.nodexml.NoderequiredXML node being queried.
options.xpathstringrequiredXPath expression used to query node.
B mynt syntax

No Mynt syntax yet.

Nothing in the language compiles to XPath.select(options) today. How should it read?

C community proposals

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D suggest an alternative

Write the Mynt you wish you could write.

A good proposal shows the syntax, the SuiteScript it should become, and argues for it: why it is clearer, how it fits the rest of the language, what it makes harder.

  • Clarity. Does it say what happens, without ceremony?
  • Consistency. Does it read like load, save and Ref[field]?
  • Expressiveness. Does it cover the cases people actually write?
  • Honesty. Does it hide a NetSuite cost, such as governance, that a reader should see?

N/xml · XPath.select(options)

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