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The evaluate() method of the XPathExpression interface executes an XPath expression on the given node or document and returns an XPathResult.
evaluate(contextNode)
evaluate(contextNode, type)
evaluate(contextNode, type, result)
contextNode
A Node representing the context to use for evaluating the expression.
type Optional
Specifies the type of result to be returned by evaluating the expression. This must be one of the XPathResult.Constants.
result Optional
Allows to specify a result object which may be reused and returned by this method. If this is specified as null or the implementation does not reuse the specified result, a new result object will be returned.
An XPathResult object representing the result of evaluating the XPath expression.
If the expression is not legal according to the rules of the XPathEvaluator, a DOMException of type INVALID_EXPRESSION_ERR is raised.
In case result cannot be converted to the specified type, a DOMException of type TYPE_ERR is raised.
If the expression contains namespace prefixes which cannot be resolved by the specified XPathNSResolver, a DOMException of type NAMESPACE_ERROR is raised.
If the provided context node is from a document that is not supported by the XPathEvaluator, a DOMException of type WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR is raised.
If the provided context node is not a type permitted as an XPath context node or the request type is not permitted by the XPathEvaluator, a DOMException of type NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR is raised.
The following example shows the use of the evaluate() method.
<div>XPath example</div>
<div>Number of <div>s: <output></output></div>
const xpath = "//div";
const evaluator = new XPathEvaluator();
const expression = evaluator.createExpression("//div");
const result = expression.evaluate(
document,
XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
);
document.querySelector("output").textContent = result.snapshotLength;
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