xmlAsText Convert the result of a XPath query into a row of strings strings = xmlAsText(xp) xp xp, a XML mlist typed XMLSet or XMLList strings strings, a single row of strings The result of a XPath query or the children of a node can be a set of XMLElements, so the aim of this function is to convert the contents of each nodes into a string. HelloScilabWorld"); // Retrieve the content of the nodes with name equal to "a" xp = xmlXPath(doc, "//a/text()"); // convert the result into a row of strings data = xmlAsText(xp) xmlDelete(doc); ]]> xmlXPath xmlAsNumber xmlName 5.4.0 XML module introduced.