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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: xml/xml.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxXmlNode, wxXmlAttribute, wxXmlDocument
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows license
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9
10 /// Represents XML node type.
11 enum wxXmlNodeType
12 {
13 // note: values are synchronized with xmlElementType from libxml
14 wxXML_ELEMENT_NODE = 1,
15 wxXML_ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2,
16 wxXML_TEXT_NODE = 3,
17 wxXML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4,
18 wxXML_ENTITY_REF_NODE = 5,
19 wxXML_ENTITY_NODE = 6,
20 wxXML_PI_NODE = 7,
21 wxXML_COMMENT_NODE = 8,
22 wxXML_DOCUMENT_NODE = 9,
23 wxXML_DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10,
24 wxXML_DOCUMENT_FRAG_NODE = 11,
25 wxXML_NOTATION_NODE = 12,
26 wxXML_HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE = 13
27 };
28
29 /**
30 @class wxXmlNode
31
32 Represents a node in an XML document. See wxXmlDocument.
33
34 Node has a name and may have content and attributes.
35
36 Most common node types are @c wxXML_TEXT_NODE (name and attributes are irrelevant)
37 and @c wxXML_ELEMENT_NODE.
38
39 Example: in <tt>\<title\>hi\</title\></tt> there is an element with the name
40 @c title and irrelevant content and one child of type @c wxXML_TEXT_NODE
41 with @c hi as content.
42
43 If @c wxUSE_UNICODE is 0, all strings are encoded in the encoding given to
44 wxXmlDocument::Load (default is UTF-8).
45
46 @library{wxxml}
47 @category{xml}
48
49 @see wxXmlDocument, wxXmlAttribute
50 */
51 class wxXmlNode
52 {
53 public:
54 /**
55 Creates this XML node and eventually insert it into an existing XML tree.
56
57 @param parent
58 The parent node to which append this node instance.
59 If this argument is @NULL this new node will be floating and it can
60 be appended later to another one using the AddChild() or InsertChild()
61 functions. Otherwise the child is already added to the XML tree by
62 this constructor and it shouldn't be done again.
63 @param type
64 One of the ::wxXmlNodeType enumeration value.
65 @param name
66 The name of the node. This is the string which appears between angular brackets.
67 @param content
68 The content of the node.
69 Only meaningful when type is @c wxXML_TEXT_NODE or @c wxXML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE.
70 @param attrs
71 If not @NULL, this wxXmlAttribute object and its eventual siblings are attached to the node.
72 @param next
73 If not @NULL, this node and its eventual siblings are attached to the node.
74 @param lineNo
75 Number of line this node was present at in input file or -1.
76 */
77 wxXmlNode(wxXmlNode* parent, wxXmlNodeType type,
78 const wxString& name,
79 const wxString& content = wxEmptyString,
80 wxXmlAttribute* attrs = NULL,
81 wxXmlNode* next = NULL, int lineNo = -1);
82
83 /**
84 A simplified version of the first constructor form, assuming a @NULL parent.
85
86 @param type
87 One of the ::wxXmlNodeType enumeration value.
88 @param name
89 The name of the node. This is the string which appears between angular brackets.
90 @param content
91 The content of the node.
92 Only meaningful when type is @c wxXML_TEXT_NODE or @c wxXML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE.
93 @param lineNo
94 Number of line this node was present at in input file or -1.
95 */
96 wxXmlNode(wxXmlNodeType type, const wxString& name,
97 const wxString& content = wxEmptyString,
98 int lineNo = -1);
99
100 /**
101 Copy constructor.
102
103 Note that this does NOT copy syblings and parent pointer, i.e. GetParent()
104 and GetNext() will return @NULL after using copy ctor and are never unmodified by operator=().
105 On the other hand, it DOES copy children and attributes.
106 */
107 wxXmlNode(const wxXmlNode& node);
108
109 /**
110 The virtual destructor. Deletes attached children and attributes.
111 */
112 virtual ~wxXmlNode();
113
114 /**
115 Appends a attribute with given @a name and @a value to the list of
116 attributes for this node.
117 */
118 virtual void AddAttribute(const wxString& name, const wxString& value);
119
120 /**
121 Appends given attribute to the list of attributes for this node.
122 */
123 virtual void AddAttribute(wxXmlAttribute* attr);
124
125 /**
126 Adds node @a child as the last child of this node.
127
128 @note
129 Note that this function works in O(n) time where @e n is the number
130 of existing children. Consequently, adding large number of child
131 nodes using this method can be expensive, because it has O(n^2) time
132 complexity in number of nodes to be added. Use InsertChildAfter() to
133 populate XML tree in linear time.
134
135 @see InsertChild(), InsertChildAfter()
136 */
137 virtual void AddChild(wxXmlNode* child);
138
139 /**
140 Removes the first attributes which has the given @a name from the list of
141 attributes for this node.
142 */
143 virtual bool DeleteAttribute(const wxString& name);
144
145 /**
146 Returns true if a attribute named attrName could be found.
147 The value of that attribute is saved in value (which must not be @NULL).
148 */
149 bool GetAttribute(const wxString& attrName, wxString* value) const;
150
151 /**
152 Returns the value of the attribute named @a attrName if it does exist.
153 If it does not exist, the @a defaultVal is returned.
154 */
155 wxString GetAttribute(const wxString& attrName,
156 const wxString& defaultVal = wxEmptyString) const;
157
158 /**
159 Return a pointer to the first attribute of this node.
160 */
161 wxXmlAttribute* GetAttributes() const;
162
163 /**
164 Returns the first child of this node.
165 To get a pointer to the second child of this node (if it does exist), use the
166 GetNext() function on the returned value.
167 */
168 wxXmlNode* GetChildren() const;
169
170 /**
171 Returns the content of this node. Can be an empty string.
172 Be aware that for nodes of type @c wxXML_ELEMENT_NODE (the most used node type)
173 the content is an empty string. See GetNodeContent() for more details.
174 */
175 const wxString& GetContent() const;
176
177 /**
178 Returns the number of nodes which separe this node from @c grandparent.
179
180 This function searches only the parents of this node until it finds
181 @a grandparent or the @NULL node (which is the parent of non-linked
182 nodes or the parent of a wxXmlDocument's root node).
183 */
184 int GetDepth(wxXmlNode* grandparent = NULL) const;
185
186 /**
187 Returns line number of the node in the input XML file or @c -1 if it is unknown.
188 */
189 int GetLineNumber() const;
190
191 /**
192 Returns the name of this node.
193 Can be an empty string (e.g. for nodes of type @c wxXML_TEXT_NODE or
194 @c wxXML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE).
195 */
196 const wxString& GetName() const;
197
198 /**
199 Returns a pointer to the sibling of this node or @NULL if there are no
200 siblings.
201 */
202 wxXmlNode* GetNext() const;
203
204 /**
205 Returns the content of the first child node of type @c wxXML_TEXT_NODE
206 or @c wxXML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE.
207 This function is very useful since the XML snippet @c "tagnametagcontent/tagname"
208 is represented by expat with the following tag tree:
209
210 @code
211 wxXML_ENTITY_NODE name="tagname", content=""
212 |-- wxXML_TEXT_NODE name="", content="tagcontent"
213 @endcode
214
215 or eventually:
216
217 @code
218 wxXML_ENTITY_NODE name="tagname", content=""
219 |-- wxXML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE name="", content="tagcontent"
220 @endcode
221
222 An empty string is returned if the node has no children of type
223 @c wxXML_TEXT_NODE or @c wxXML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE, or if the content
224 of the first child of such types is empty.
225 */
226 wxString GetNodeContent() const;
227
228 /**
229 Returns a pointer to the parent of this node or @NULL if this node has no
230 parent.
231 */
232 wxXmlNode* GetParent() const;
233
234 /**
235 Returns the type of this node.
236 */
237 wxXmlNodeType GetType() const;
238
239 /**
240 Returns @true if this node has a attribute named @a attrName.
241 */
242 bool HasAttribute(const wxString& attrName) const;
243
244 /**
245 Inserts the @a child node immediately before @a followingNode in the
246 children list.
247
248 @return @true if @a followingNode has been found and the @a child
249 node has been inserted.
250
251 @note
252 For historical reasons, @a followingNode may be @NULL. In that case,
253 then @a child is prepended to the list of children and becomes the
254 first child of this node, i.e. it behaves identically to using the
255 first children (as returned by GetChildren()) for @a followingNode).
256
257 @see AddChild(), InsertChildAfter()
258 */
259 virtual bool InsertChild(wxXmlNode* child, wxXmlNode* followingNode);
260
261 /**
262 Inserts the @a child node immediately after @a precedingNode in the
263 children list.
264
265 @return @true if @a precedingNode has been found and the @a child
266 node has been inserted.
267
268 @param child
269 The child to insert.
270 @param precedingNode
271 The node to insert @a child after. As a special case, this can be
272 @NULL if this node has no children yet -- in that case, @a child
273 will become this node's only child node.
274
275 @since 2.8.8
276
277 @see InsertChild(), AddChild()
278 */
279 virtual bool InsertChildAfter(wxXmlNode* child, wxXmlNode* precedingNode);
280
281 /**
282 Returns @true if the content of this node is a string containing only
283 whitespaces (spaces, tabs, new lines, etc).
284
285 Note that this function is locale-independent since the parsing of XML
286 documents must always produce the exact same tree regardless of the
287 locale it runs under.
288 */
289 bool IsWhitespaceOnly() const;
290
291 /**
292 Removes the given node from the children list.
293
294 Returns @true if the node was found and removed or @false if the node
295 could not be found.
296 Note that the caller is reponsible for deleting the removed node in order
297 to avoid memory leaks.
298 */
299 virtual bool RemoveChild(wxXmlNode* child);
300
301 /**
302 Sets as first attribute the given wxXmlAttribute object.
303
304 The caller is responsible to delete any previously present attributes
305 attached to this node.
306 */
307 void SetAttributes(wxXmlAttribute* attr);
308
309 /**
310 Sets as first child the given node.
311
312 The caller is responsible to delete any previously present children node.
313 */
314 void SetChildren(wxXmlNode* child);
315
316 /**
317 Sets the content of this node.
318 */
319 void SetContent(const wxString& con);
320
321 /**
322 Sets the name of this node.
323 */
324 void SetName(const wxString& name);
325
326 /**
327 Sets as sibling the given node.
328
329 The caller is responsible to delete any previously present sibling node.
330 */
331 void SetNext(wxXmlNode* next);
332
333 /**
334 Sets as parent the given node.
335
336 The caller is responsible to delete any previously present parent node.
337 */
338 void SetParent(wxXmlNode* parent);
339
340 /**
341 Sets the type of this node.
342 */
343 void SetType(wxXmlNodeType type);
344
345 /**
346 See the copy constructor for more info.
347 */
348 wxXmlNode& operator=(const wxXmlNode& node);
349 };
350
351
352
353 /**
354 @class wxXmlAttribute
355
356 Represents a node attribute.
357
358 Example: in <tt>\<img src="hello.gif" id="3"/\></tt>, @c src is an attribute
359 with value @c hello.gif and @c id is an attribute with value @c 3.
360
361 @library{wxxml}
362 @category{xml}
363
364 @see wxXmlDocument, wxXmlNode
365 */
366 class wxXmlAttribute
367 {
368 public:
369 /**
370 Default constructor.
371 */
372 wxXmlAttribute();
373
374 /**
375 Creates the attribute with given @a name and @a value.
376 If @a next is not @NULL, then sets it as sibling of this attribute.
377 */
378 wxXmlAttribute(const wxString& name, const wxString& value,
379 wxXmlAttribute* next = NULL);
380
381 /**
382 The virtual destructor.
383 */
384 virtual ~wxXmlAttribute();
385
386 /**
387 Returns the name of this attribute.
388 */
389 wxString GetName() const;
390
391 /**
392 Returns the sibling of this attribute or @NULL if there are no siblings.
393 */
394 wxXmlAttribute* GetNext() const;
395
396 /**
397 Returns the value of this attribute.
398 */
399 wxString GetValue() const;
400
401 /**
402 Sets the name of this attribute.
403 */
404 void SetName(const wxString& name);
405
406 /**
407 Sets the sibling of this attribute.
408 */
409 void SetNext(wxXmlAttribute* next);
410
411 /**
412 Sets the value of this attribute.
413 */
414 void SetValue(const wxString& value);
415 };
416
417
418
419 /**
420 @class wxXmlDocument
421
422 This class holds XML data/document as parsed by XML parser in the root node.
423
424 wxXmlDocument internally uses the expat library which comes with wxWidgets to
425 parse the given stream.
426
427 A simple example of using XML classes is:
428
429 @code
430 wxXmlDocument doc;
431 if (!doc.Load("myfile.xml"))
432 return false;
433
434 // start processing the XML file
435 if (doc.GetRoot()->GetName() != "myroot-node")
436 return false;
437
438 wxXmlNode *child = doc.GetRoot()->GetChildren();
439 while (child) {
440
441 if (child->GetName() == "tag1") {
442
443 // process text enclosed by tag1/tag1
444 wxString content = child->GetNodeContent();
445
446 ...
447
448 // process attributes of tag1
449 wxString attrvalue1 =
450 child->GetAttribute("attr1", "default-value");
451 wxString attrvalue2 =
452 child->GetAttribute("attr2", "default-value");
453
454 ...
455
456 } else if (child->GetName() == "tag2") {
457
458 // process tag2 ...
459 }
460
461 child = child->GetNext();
462 }
463 @endcode
464
465 Note that if you want to preserve the original formatting of the loaded file
466 including whitespaces and indentation, you need to turn off whitespace-only
467 textnode removal and automatic indentation:
468
469 @code
470 wxXmlDocument doc;
471 doc.Load("myfile.xml", "UTF-8", wxXMLDOC_KEEP_WHITESPACE_NODES);
472
473 // myfile2.xml will be indentic to myfile.xml saving it this way:
474 doc.Save("myfile2.xml", wxXML_NO_INDENTATION);
475 @endcode
476
477 Using default parameters, you will get a reformatted document which in general
478 is different from the original loaded content:
479
480 @code
481 wxXmlDocument doc;
482 doc.Load("myfile.xml");
483 doc.Save("myfile2.xml"); // myfile2.xml != myfile.xml
484 @endcode
485
486 @library{wxxml}
487 @category{xml}
488
489 @see wxXmlNode, wxXmlAttribute
490 */
491 class wxXmlDocument : public wxObject
492 {
493 public:
494 /**
495 Default constructor.
496 */
497 wxXmlDocument();
498
499 /**
500 Copy constructor. Deep copies all the XML tree of the given document.
501 */
502 wxXmlDocument(const wxXmlDocument& doc);
503
504 /**
505 Loads the given filename using the given encoding. See Load().
506 */
507 wxXmlDocument(const wxString& filename,
508 const wxString& encoding = "UTF-8"));
509
510 /**
511 Loads the XML document from given stream using the given encoding. See Load().
512 */
513 wxXmlDocument(wxInputStream& stream,
514 const wxString& encoding = "UTF-8");
515
516 /**
517 Virtual destructor. Frees the document root node.
518 */
519 virtual ~wxXmlDocument();
520
521 /**
522 Detaches the document root node and returns it.
523
524 The document root node will be set to @NULL and thus IsOk() will
525 return @false after calling this function.
526
527 Note that the caller is reponsible for deleting the returned node in order
528 to avoid memory leaks.
529 */
530 wxXmlNode* DetachRoot();
531
532 /**
533 Returns encoding of in-memory representation of the document
534 (same as passed to Load() or constructor, defaults to UTF-8).
535
536 @note this is meaningless in Unicode build where data are stored as @c wchar_t*.
537 */
538 wxString GetEncoding() const;
539
540 /**
541 Returns encoding of document (may be empty).
542
543 @note This is the encoding original file was saved in, @b not the
544 encoding of in-memory representation!
545 */
546 const wxString& GetFileEncoding() const;
547
548 /**
549 Returns the root node of the document.
550 */
551 wxXmlNode* GetRoot() const;
552
553 /**
554 Returns the version of document.
555
556 This is the value in the @c \<?xml version="1.0"?\> header of the XML document.
557 If the version attribute was not explicitely given in the header, this function
558 returns an empty string.
559 */
560 const wxString& GetVersion() const;
561
562 /**
563 Returns @true if the document has been loaded successfully.
564 */
565 bool IsOk() const;
566
567
568 /**
569 Parses @a filename as an xml document and loads its data.
570
571 If @a flags does not contain wxXMLDOC_KEEP_WHITESPACE_NODES, then, while loading,
572 all nodes of type @c wxXML_TEXT_NODE (see wxXmlNode) are automatically skipped
573 if they contain whitespaces only.
574
575 The removal of these nodes makes the load process slightly faster and requires
576 less memory however makes impossible to recreate exactly the loaded text with a
577 Save() call later. Read the initial description of this class for more info.
578
579 Returns true on success, false otherwise.
580 */
581 virtual bool Load(const wxString& filename,
582 const wxString& encoding = "UTF-8", int flags = wxXMLDOC_NONE);
583
584 /**
585 Like Load(const wxString&, const wxString&, int) but takes the data from
586 given input stream.
587 */
588 virtual bool Load(wxInputStream& stream,
589 const wxString& encoding = "UTF-8", int flags = wxXMLDOC_NONE);
590
591 /**
592 Saves XML tree creating a file named with given string.
593
594 If @a indentstep is greater than or equal to zero, then, while saving,
595 an automatic indentation is added with steps composed by indentstep spaces.
596
597 If @a indentstep is @c wxXML_NO_INDENTATION, then, automatic indentation
598 is turned off.
599 */
600 virtual bool Save(const wxString& filename, int indentstep = 1) const;
601
602 /**
603 Saves XML tree in the given output stream.
604 See Save(const wxString&, int) for a description of @a indentstep.
605 */
606 virtual bool Save(wxOutputStream& stream, int indentstep = 1) const;
607
608 /**
609 Sets the enconding of the document.
610 */
611 void SetEncoding(const wxString& enc);
612
613 /**
614 Sets the enconding of the file which will be used to save the document.
615 */
616 void SetFileEncoding(const wxString& encoding);
617
618 /**
619 Sets the root node of this document. Deletes previous root node.
620 Use DetachRoot() and then SetRoot() if you want to replace the root
621 node without deleting the old document tree.
622 */
623 void SetRoot(wxXmlNode* node);
624
625 /**
626 Sets the version of the XML file which will be used to save the document.
627 */
628 void SetVersion(const wxString& version);
629
630 /**
631 Deep copies the given document.
632 */
633 wxXmlDocument& operator=(const wxXmlDocument& doc);
634 };
635