javascript跨浏览器的XPath操作

今天突然想起来，从javascript高级编程上摘抄，以备后用

function selectNodes(context, expression, namespaces) {
  var doc = (context.nodeType !== 9 ? context.ownerDocument : context),
      nodes = [],
      result = null,
      i = 0,
      len = 0;

  if (typeof doc.evaluate !== "undefined") {
    var nsresolver = null;
    if (namespaces instanceof Object) {
      nsresolver = function(prefix) {
        return namespaces[prefix];
      };
    }

    result = doc.evaluate(expression, context, nsresolver, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
    if (result !== null) {
      for (i = 0, len = result.snapshotLength; i < len; i++) {
        nodes.push(result.snapshotItem(i));
      }
    }

    return nodes;
  } else if (typeof context.selectNodes !== "undefined") {
    if (namespaces instanceof Object) {
      var ns = '';
      for (var prefix in namespaces) {
        if (namespaces.hasOwnProperty(prefix)) {
          ns += 'xmlns:' + prefix + "='" + namespaces[prefix] + "' ";
        }
      }
      doc.setProperty("SelectionNamespaces", ns);
    }

    result = context.selectNodes(expression);
    for (i = 0, len = result.length; i < len; i++) {
      nodes.push(result[i]);
    }
    return nodes;
  } else {
    throw new Error("No XPath engine found.");
  }
}