pyspark.sql.functions.xpath_boolean

pyspark.sql.functions.xpath_boolean(xml, path)

Returns true if the XPath expression evaluates to true, or if a matching node is found.

New in version 3.5.0.

See also

pyspark.sql.functions.from_xml()

pyspark.sql.functions.schema_of_xml()

pyspark.sql.functions.to_xml()

pyspark.sql.functions.xpath()

pyspark.sql.functions.xpath_double()

pyspark.sql.functions.xpath_float()

pyspark.sql.functions.xpath_int()

pyspark.sql.functions.xpath_long()

pyspark.sql.functions.xpath_number()

pyspark.sql.functions.xpath_short()

pyspark.sql.functions.xpath_string()

Examples

>>> from pyspark.sql import functions as sf
>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('<a><b>1</b></a>',)], ['x'])
>>> df.select(sf.xpath_boolean(df.x, sf.lit('a/b'))).show()
+---------------------+
|xpath_boolean(x, a/b)|
+---------------------+
|                 true|
+---------------------+