pyspark.sql.functions.xpath_short

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

Returns a short integer value, or the value zero if no match is found, or a match is found but the value is non-numeric.

New in version 3.5.0.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('<a><b>1</b><b>2</b></a>',)], ['x'])
>>> df.select(xpath_short(df.x, lit('sum(a/b)')).alias('r')).collect()
[Row(r=3)]