LaTeXM...n::XML(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Okay bestie, this is the LaTeXML::Common::XML(3pm) manual page from User Contributed Perl Documentation, and the module is literally called "LaTeXML::Common::XML" — XML utilities. That's the whole vibe. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So this module provides utilities for accessing XML, along with some patches to XML::LibXML. No cap, that's the main character energy of this page. Here's the function cast, one by one, with every signature kept exactly as it appears:

• element_nodes($node) — returns a list of the element children of $node. 💅
• text_in_node($node) — returns the string combining the text nodes within $node. ✨
• isTeXtNode($node) — checks whether $node is a text node. Yes, that capitalization is iconic and exact. 🦋
• isElementNode($node) — checks whether $node is a element node. 🌸
• isChild($child,$parent) — checks whether $child is a child of $parent.
• isDecscendant($child,$parent) — checks whether $child is a descendant of $parent. (The spelling isDecscendant is exactly what the manual says, bestie. 🫶)
• isDecscendantOrSelf($child,$parent) — checks whether $child is a descendant of, or the same as, $parent.
• new_node($nsURI,$tag,$children,%attributes) — creates a new element node with tag $tag (in the namespace $nsURI), with the children in the array ref $children (if any) and assigning the given attributes. 👑
• append_nodes($node,@children) — appends the given children to $node.
• clear_node($node) — removes all element and text children from $node. Poof. 💀
• maybe_clone($node) — clones $node if it has a parent, otherwise returns it. Lowkey conditional cloning, highkey useful.
• copy_attributes($to,$from) — copy all attributes from $from to $to.
• rename_attribute($node,$from,$to) — rename the attribute $from to $to on the node $node.
• remove_attr($node,@attr) — remove the given attributes from $node. Bye attributes. 👋
• get_attr($node,@attr) — returns the list of values for the given attributes on $node.
• initialize_catalogs() — initialize XML::LibXML to recognize the catalogs given in LaTeXML.catalogs. 🧚
• set_RDFa_prefixes($document,$map) — this method scans the document's RDFa attributes, extracting the prefixes used. These prefixes are then filtered through a $map of known RDFa prefixes and the ones allowed are declared globally for the document via the "prefix" attribute of its root element. It's giving RDFa bookkeeping realness. 🌈

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Bruce Miller <bruce.miller@nist.gov>, Deyan Ginev <deyan.ginev@nist.gov> — the authors ate, periodt. 💖

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Public domain software, produced as part of work done by the United States Government & not subject to copyright in the US. Slay, public domain. ✨

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Cute sign-off time, bestie: this manual page footer is from perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-11-16, and the truncated manual name in the footer is LaTeXM...n::XML(3pm). Bye, love you, read your XML docs. 💜🫶