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XML_Element.child_count

child_count

Group: Metadata

Documentation​

Gets the number children of an XML element. child_count only counts child elements and child text nodes that are not 100% whitespace. Other node types, such as comments, are not included in the count.

Examples​

Get the number of children of an element.​

      XML_Document.parse '<foo> <bar>hello</bar> <bar>hello2</bar>< </foo>' . root_element . child_count
      # => 2