Making the recursive SelectNodes a separate function and adding tests

document.go

@@ -15,9 +15,12 @@
 
    *xmlx.Document.SelectNode(namespace, name string) *Node;
    *xmlx.Document.SelectNodes(namespace, name string) []*Node;
+   *xmlx.Document.SelectNodesRecursive(namespace, name string) []*Node;
 
  SelectNode() returns the first, single node it finds matching the given name
- and namespace. SelectNodes() returns a slice containing all the matching nodes.
+ and namespace. SelectNodes() returns a slice containing all the matching nodes
+ (without recursing into matching nodes). SelectNodesRecursive() returns a slice
+ of all matching nodes, including nodes inside other matching nodes.
 
  Note that these search functions can be invoked on individual nodes as well.
  This allows you to search only a subset of the entire document.
@@ -77,10 +80,19 @@ func (this *Document) SelectNode(namespace, name string) *Node {
 
 // Select all nodes with the given namespace and name. Returns an empty slice
 // if no matches were found.
+// Select all nodes with the given namespace and name, without recursing
+// into the children of those matches. Returns an empty slice if no matching
+// node was found.
 func (this *Document) SelectNodes(namespace, name string) []*Node {
 	return this.Root.SelectNodes(namespace, name)
 }
 
+// Select all nodes with the given namespace and name, also recursing into the
+// children of those matches. Returns an empty slice if no matches were found.
+func (this *Document) SelectNodesRecursive(namespace, name string) []*Node {
+	return this.Root.SelectNodesRecursive(namespace, name)
+}
+
 // Load the contents of this document from the supplied reader.
 func (this *Document) LoadStream(r io.Reader, charset CharsetFunc) (err error) {
 	xp := xml.NewDecoder(r)

node.go

@@ -230,17 +230,27 @@ func rec_SelectNode(cn *Node, namespace, name string) *Node {
 // Select multiple nodes by name
 func (this *Node) SelectNodes(namespace, name string) []*Node {
 	list := make([]*Node, 0, 16)
-	rec_SelectNodes(this, namespace, name, &list)
+	rec_SelectNodes(this, namespace, name, &list, false)
 	return list
 }
 
-func rec_SelectNodes(cn *Node, namespace, name string, list *[]*Node) {
+// Select multiple nodes by name
+func (this *Node) SelectNodesRecursive(namespace, name string) []*Node {
+	list := make([]*Node, 0, 16)
+	rec_SelectNodes(this, namespace, name, &list, true)
+	return list
+}
+
+func rec_SelectNodes(cn *Node, namespace, name string, list *[]*Node, recurse bool) {
 	if (namespace == "*" || cn.Name.Space == namespace) && (name == "*" || cn.Name.Local == name) {
 		*list = append(*list, cn)
+		if !recurse {
+			return
+		}
 	}
 
 	for _, v := range cn.Children {
-		rec_SelectNodes(v, namespace, name, list)
+		rec_SelectNodes(v, namespace, name, list, recurse)
 	}
 }
 

xmlx_test.go

@@ -31,7 +31,23 @@ func TestWildcard(t *testing.T) {
 	list := doc.SelectNodes("ns", "*")
 
 	if len(list) != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("Wrong number of child elements. Expected 4, got %d.", len(list))
+		t.Errorf("Wrong number of child elements. Expected 1, got %d.", len(list))
+		return
+	}
+}
+
+func TestWildcardRecursive(t *testing.T) {
+	doc := New()
+
+	if err := doc.LoadFile("test2.xml", nil); err != nil {
+		t.Error(err.Error())
+		return
+	}
+
+	list := doc.SelectNodesRecursive("ns", "*")
+
+	if len(list) != 7 {
+		t.Errorf("Wrong number of child elements. Expected 7, got %d.", len(list))
 		return
 	}
 }