map expression expression

NOTE: THE SEMANTICS OF COMMAND HAS CHANGED IN 2.1.0

This command provides an easy way to transform node's data (content) using arbitrary expression. It takes two arguments: a mapping expression and a node-list.

First the second argument is evaluated to a node-list. For each of the nodes, the mapping expression is evaluated and the result is used to replace the original content of the node. The node is made the context node for the time of evaluation of the mapping expression. Moreover, if the expression is a Perl code, it gets the original text content in the variable $_.

Note that if the processed node is an element than the mapping expression may even produce nodes which are then copied into the element discarding any previous content of the element.

If the mapping expression returns an undefined value for a node, then its content is kept untouched.

--in-place (:i) flag: if the expression is a Perl code, then it is sometimes convenient to change the value in place. In that case use this flag to indicate that the result should to be taken from the $_ variable rather than from the value of the expression itself. Without this flag, $_ is read-only.

--reverse (:r) flag instruct the map to process the nodelist in reversed order.

map { ucfirst($_) } //hobbit/@name;

map :i { s/\bgoblin\b/orc/gi } //hobbit/tale/text();

map sum(/table/row[position()<last()]/
cell[count(xsh:current()/preceding-sibling::cell)+1])
/table/row[last()]/cell;

wrap --inner Z //*;
map --reverse xsh:parse(concat("<Z>",xsh:serialize(node()),"</Z>")) //*;
map xsh:parse(concat("<Z>",xsh:serialize(node()),"</Z>")) { reverse xpath('//*') };

Note that in the last example we use :r (or Perl reverse function) to reverse the node list order so that child nodes get processed before their parents. Otherwise, the child nodes would be replaced by parent's new content before the processing could reach them.

rename

Interacting with Perl and Shell, Tree modification