Groovy: Correct Syntax for XMLSlurper to find elements with a given attribute

groovy, xmlslurper

Solution

Try the following (Groovy 1.5.6):

def doc = """
<html>
    <body>
        <div tags="1">test1</div>
        <div>test2</div>
        <div tags="">test3</div>
        <div tags="4">test4</div>
    </body>
</html>
"""

def html = new XmlSlurper().parseText( doc)

html.body.div.findAll { it.@tags.text()}.each { div ->
    println div.text()
}

This outputs:

test1
test4

Problem

Given a HTML file with the structure html -> body -> a bunch of divs what is the correct groovy statement to find all of the divs with a non blank tags attribute? The following is not working: ``` def nodes = html.body.div.findAll { it.@tags != null } ``` because it finds all the nodes.

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