--- !ruby/object:RI::MethodDescription 
aliases: []

block_params: e if e.kind_of? Element
comment: 
- !ruby/struct:SM::Flow::P 
  body: Iterates through all of the child Elements, optionally filtering them by a given XPath
- !ruby/object:SM::Flow::LIST 
  contents: 
  - !ruby/struct:SM::Flow::LI 
    label: "xpath:"
    body: optional. If supplied, this is a String XPath, and is used to filter the children, so that only matching children are yielded. Note that XPaths are automatically filtered for Elements, so that non-Element children will not be yielded
  type: :NOTE
- !ruby/struct:SM::Flow::VERB 
  body: " doc = Document.new '<a><b/><c/><d/>sean<b/><c/><d/></a>'\n doc.root.each {|e|p e}       #-> Yields b, c, d, b, c, d elements\n doc.root.each('b') {|e|p e}  #-> Yields b, b elements\n doc.root.each('child::node()')  {|e|p e}\n #-> Yields <b/>, <c/>, <d/>, <b/>, <c/>, <d/>\n XPath.each(doc.root, 'child::node()', &block)\n #-> Yields <b/>, <c/>, <d/>, sean, <b/>, <c/>, <d/>\n"
full_name: REXML::Elements#each
is_singleton: false
name: each
params: ( xpath=nil, &block) {|e if e.kind_of? Element| ...}
visibility: public