xmlAsNumber Convert the result of a XPath query into a row of numbers nums = xmlAsNumber(xp) xp xp, a XML mlist typed XMLSet or XMLList nums nums, a single row of doubles The result of a XPath query or the chidren of a node can be a set of XMLElements which contains numbers, so the aim of this function is to convert the contents of each nodes into a double. 12131.234567845e3.23E-2"); // Retrieve the content of the nodes with name equal to "a" xp = xmlXPath(doc, "//a/text()"); // convert the result into doubles data = xmlAsNumber(xp) xmlDelete(doc); ]]> xmlXPath xmlAsText xmlName 5.4.0 XML module introduced.