lookup


String lookup (String contextXPointer, String relativeXPointer)

Returns the xpointer of the matching element or the empty string if no match was found.

 contextXPointer The first matching element for contextXPointer will be used as the context. The context is the point from where the relativeXPointer will start.

Note: Use "#/1" for document element.
 relativeXPointer The first matching element for relativeXPointer will be returned

Code snippet

Look up the third branch at the root level.

var docElement = "#/1";
var newElement = "#xpointer(has/b[3])";

var thirdBranch = diputree.lookup (docElement, newElement, at);

Example

lookup example


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