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xpath.openDocument

xpath.openDocument(string)

Returns the DOM object resulting from parsing the XML string.

The DOM object returned is suitable for passing to xpath-evaluate.

Parsing the XML once is considerably more efficient if you wish to call xpath-evaluate on the same XML.

You should use xpath-closeDocument once xpath evaluation is complete or the parsed DOM will be held in memory for some time.


 

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BMC Helix Discovery 24.1 (On-Premises)