Method: REXML::Element#comments

Defined in:

lib/rexml/element.rb

#comments ⇒ Object

:call-seq:

comments -> array_of_comment_children

Returns a frozen array of the REXML::Comment children of the element:

xml_string = "  <root>\n    <!--foo-->\n    <!--bar-->\n  </root>\n"
d = REXML::Document.new(xml_string)
cs = d.root.comments
cs.frozen?            # => true
cs.map {|c| c.class } # => [REXML::Comment, REXML::Comment]
cs.map {|c| c.to_s }  # => ["foo", "bar"]

# File 'lib/rexml/element.rb', line 1432

def comments
  find_all { |child| child.kind_of? Comment }.freeze
end