Find between a pattern

Helper function to find all nodes between a standard pattern. This is useful if you want to find unnested pandoc tags.

Usage

find_between(
  body,
  ns,
  pattern = "md:paragraph[md:text[starts-with(text(), ':::')]]",
  include = FALSE
)

Arguments

body

and XML document

ns

the namespace of the document

pattern

an XPath expression that defines characteristics of nodes between which you want to extract everything.

include

if TRUE, the tags matching pattern will be included in the output, defaults to FALSE, which only gives you the nodes in between pattern.

Value

a nodeset

Examples

md <- glue::glue("
 h1
 ====

 ::: section

 h2
 ----

 section *text* with [a link](https://ropensci.org/)

 :::
")
x <- xml2::read_xml(commonmark::markdown_xml(md))
ns <- xml2::xml_ns_rename(xml2::xml_ns(x), d1 = "md")
res <- find_between(x, ns)
res
#> {xml_nodeset (2)}
#> [1] <heading level="2">\n  <text xml:space="preserve">h2</text>\n</heading>
#> [2] <paragraph>\n  <text xml:space="preserve">section </text>\n  <emph>\n     ...
xml2::xml_text(res)
#> [1] "h2"                       "section text with a link"
xml2::xml_find_all(res, ".//descendant-or-self::md:*", ns = ns)
#> {xml_nodeset (9)}
#> [1] <heading level="2">\n  <text xml:space="preserve">h2</text>\n</heading>
#> [2] <text xml:space="preserve">h2</text>
#> [3] <paragraph>\n  <text xml:space="preserve">section </text>\n  <emph>\n     ...
#> [4] <text xml:space="preserve">section </text>
#> [5] <emph>\n  <text xml:space="preserve">text</text>\n</emph>
#> [6] <text xml:space="preserve">text</text>
#> [7] <text xml:space="preserve"> with </text>
#> [8] <link destination="https://ropensci.org/" title="">\n  <text xml:space="p ...
#> [9] <text xml:space="preserve">a link</text>