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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: xml/xml.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxXmlNode
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows license
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9 /**
10 @class wxXmlNode
11 @headerfile xml.h wx/xml/xml.h
12
13 Represents a node in an XML document. See wxXmlDocument.
14
15 Node has a name and may have content and attributes. Most common node types are
16 @c wxXML_TEXT_NODE (name and attributes are irrelevant) and
17 @c wxXML_ELEMENT_NODE (e.g. in @c titlehi/title there is an element
18 with name="title", irrelevant content and one child (@c wxXML_TEXT_NODE
19 with content="hi").
20
21 If @c wxUSE_UNICODE is 0, all strings are encoded in the encoding given to
22 wxXmlDocument::Load (default is UTF-8).
23
24 @library{wxxml}
25 @category{xml}
26
27 @see wxXmlDocument, wxXmlAttribute
28 */
29 class wxXmlNode
30 {
31 public:
32 //@{
33 /**
34 A simplified version of the first constructor form, assuming a @NULL parent.
35 */
36 wxXmlNode(wxXmlNode* parent, wxXmlNodeType type,
37 const wxString& name,
38 const wxString& content = wxEmptyString,
39 wxXmlAttribute* attrs = NULL,
40 wxXmlNode* next = NULL, int lineNo = -1);
41 wxXmlNode(const wxXmlNode& node);
42 wxXmlNode(wxXmlNodeType type, const wxString& name,
43 const wxString& content = wxEmptyString,
44 int lineNo = -1);
45 //@}
46
47 /**
48 The virtual destructor. Deletes attached children and attributes.
49 */
50 ~wxXmlNode();
51
52 //@{
53 /**
54 Appends given attribute to the list of attributes for this node.
55 */
56 void AddAttribute(const wxString& name, const wxString& value);
57 void AddAttribute(wxXmlAttribute* attr);
58 //@}
59
60 /**
61 Adds the given node as child of this node. To attach a second children to this
62 node, use the
63 SetNext() function of the @a child node.
64 */
65 void AddChild(wxXmlNode* child);
66
67 /**
68 Removes the first attributes which has the given @a name from the list of
69 attributes for this node.
70 */
71 bool DeleteAttribute(const wxString& name);
72
73 //@{
74 /**
75 Returns the value of the attribute named @a attrName if it does exist.
76 If it does not exist, the @a defaultVal is returned.
77 */
78 bool GetAttribute(const wxString& attrName, wxString* value) const;
79 const wxString GetAttribute(const wxString& attrName,
80 const wxString& defaultVal = wxEmptyString) const;
81 //@}
82
83 /**
84 Return a pointer to the first attribute of this node.
85 */
86 wxXmlAttribute* GetAttributes() const;
87
88 /**
89 Returns the first child of this node.
90 To get a pointer to the second child of this node (if it does exist), use the
91 GetNext() function on the returned value.
92 */
93 wxXmlNode* GetChildren() const;
94
95 /**
96 Returns the content of this node. Can be an empty string.
97 Be aware that for nodes of type @c wxXML_ELEMENT_NODE (the most used node type)
98 the
99 content is an empty string. See GetNodeContent() for more details.
100 */
101 wxString GetContent() const;
102
103 /**
104 Returns the number of nodes which separe this node from @c grandparent.
105 This function searches only the parents of this node until it finds @c
106 grandparent
107 or the @NULL node (which is the parent of non-linked nodes or the parent of a
108 wxXmlDocument's root node).
109 */
110 int GetDepth(wxXmlNode* grandparent = NULL) const;
111
112 /**
113 Returns line number of the node in the input XML file or -1 if it is unknown.
114 */
115 int GetLineNumber() const;
116
117 /**
118 Returns the name of this node. Can be an empty string (e.g. for nodes of type
119 @c wxXML_TEXT_NODE or @c wxXML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE).
120 */
121 wxString GetName() const;
122
123 /**
124 Returns a pointer to the sibling of this node or @NULL if there are no
125 siblings.
126 */
127 wxXmlNode* GetNext() const;
128
129 /**
130 Returns the content of the first child node of type @c wxXML_TEXT_NODE or @c
131 wxXML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE.
132 This function is very useful since the XML snippet @c
133 "tagnametagcontent/tagname" is represented by
134 expat with the following tag tree:
135
136 or eventually:
137
138 An empty string is returned if the node has no children of type @c
139 wxXML_TEXT_NODE or @c wxXML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE, or if the content of the first child of such types is empty.
140 */
141 wxString GetNodeContent() const;
142
143 /**
144 Returns a pointer to the parent of this node or @NULL if this node has no
145 parent.
146 */
147 wxXmlNode* GetParent() const;
148
149 /**
150 Returns the type of this node.
151 */
152 wxXmlNodeType GetType() const;
153
154 /**
155 Returns @true if this node has a attribute named @e attrName.
156 */
157 bool HasAttribute(const wxString& attrName) const;
158
159 /**
160 Inserts the @a child node immediately before @a followingNode in the
161 children list.
162
163 @return @true if @a followingNode has been found and the @a child
164 node has been inserted.
165
166 @note
167 For historical reasons, @a followingNode may be @NULL. In that case,
168 then @a child is prepended to the list of children and becomes the
169 first child of this node, i.e. it behaves identically to using the
170 first children (as returned by GetChildren()) for @a followingNode).
171 */
172 bool InsertChild(wxXmlNode* child, wxXmlNode* followingNode);
173
174 /**
175 Returns @true if the content of this node is a string containing only
176 whitespaces (spaces,
177 tabs, new lines, etc). Note that this function is locale-independent since the
178 parsing of XML
179 documents must always produce the exact same tree regardless of the locale it
180 runs under.
181 */
182 bool IsWhitespaceOnly() const;
183
184 /**
185 Removes the given node from the children list. Returns @true if the node was
186 found and removed
187 or @false if the node could not be found.
188 Note that the caller is reponsible for deleting the removed node in order to
189 avoid memory leaks.
190 */
191 bool RemoveChild(wxXmlNode* child);
192
193 /**
194 Sets as first attribute the given wxXmlAttribute object.
195 The caller is responsible to delete any previously present attributes attached
196 to this node.
197 */
198 void SetAttributes(wxXmlAttribute* attr);
199
200 /**
201 Sets as first child the given node. The caller is responsible to delete any
202 previously present
203 children node.
204 */
205 void SetChildren(wxXmlNode* child);
206
207 /**
208 Sets the content of this node.
209 */
210 void SetContent(const wxString& con);
211
212 /**
213 Sets the name of this node.
214 */
215 void SetName(const wxString& name);
216
217 /**
218 Sets as sibling the given node. The caller is responsible to delete any
219 previously present
220 sibling node.
221 */
222 void SetNext(wxXmlNode* next);
223
224 /**
225 Sets as parent the given node. The caller is responsible to delete any
226 previously present
227 parent node.
228 */
229 void SetParent(wxXmlNode* parent);
230
231 /**
232 Sets the type of this node.
233 */
234 void SetType(wxXmlNodeType type);
235
236 /**
237 See the copy constructor for more info.
238 */
239 wxXmlNode operator=(const wxXmlNode& node);
240 };
241
242
243
244 /**
245 @class wxXmlAttribute
246 @headerfile xml.h wx/xml/xml.h
247
248 Represents a node attribute.
249
250 Example: in @c img src="hello.gif" id="3"/, @c "src" is attribute with value
251 @c "hello.gif" and @c "id" is a attribute with value @c "3".
252
253 @library{wxxml}
254 @category{xml}
255
256 @see wxXmlDocument, wxXmlNode
257 */
258 class wxXmlAttribute
259 {
260 public:
261 //@{
262 /**
263 Creates the attribute with given @a name and @e value.
264 If @a next is not @NULL, then sets it as sibling of this attribute.
265 */
266 wxXmlAttribute();
267 wxXmlAttribute(const wxString& name, const wxString& value,
268 wxXmlAttribute* next = NULL);
269 //@}
270
271 /**
272 The virtual destructor.
273 */
274 ~wxXmlAttribute();
275
276 /**
277 Returns the name of this attribute.
278 */
279 wxString GetName() const;
280
281 /**
282 Returns the sibling of this attribute or @NULL if there are no siblings.
283 */
284 wxXmlAttribute* GetNext() const;
285
286 /**
287 Returns the value of this attribute.
288 */
289 wxString GetValue() const;
290
291 /**
292 Sets the name of this attribute.
293 */
294 void SetName(const wxString& name);
295
296 /**
297 Sets the sibling of this attribute.
298 */
299 void SetNext(wxXmlAttribute* next);
300
301 /**
302 Sets the value of this attribute.
303 */
304 void SetValue(const wxString& value);
305 };
306
307
308
309 /**
310 @class wxXmlDocument
311 @headerfile xml.h wx/xml/xml.h
312
313 This class holds XML data/document as parsed by XML parser in the root node.
314
315 wxXmlDocument internally uses the expat library which comes with wxWidgets to
316 parse the given stream.
317
318 A simple example of using XML classes is:
319
320 @code
321 wxXmlDocument doc;
322 if (!doc.Load(wxT("myfile.xml")))
323 return @false;
324
325 // start processing the XML file
326 if (doc.GetRoot()-GetName() != wxT("myroot-node"))
327 return @false;
328
329 wxXmlNode *child = doc.GetRoot()-GetChildren();
330 while (child) {
331
332 if (child-GetName() == wxT("tag1")) {
333
334 // process text enclosed by tag1/tag1
335 wxString content = child-GetNodeContent();
336
337 ...
338
339 // process attributes of tag1
340 wxString attrvalue1 =
341 child-GetAttribute(wxT("attr1"),
342 wxT("default-value"));
343 wxString attrvalue2 =
344 child-GetAttribute(wxT("attr2"),
345 wxT("default-value"));
346
347 ...
348
349 } else if (child-GetName() == wxT("tag2")) {
350
351 // process tag2 ...
352 }
353
354 child = child-GetNext();
355 }
356 @endcode
357
358 @b Note: if you want to preserve the original formatting of the loaded file
359 including whitespaces
360 and indentation, you need to turn off whitespace-only textnode removal and
361 automatic indentation:
362
363 @code
364 wxXmlDocument doc;
365 doc.Load(wxT("myfile.xml"), wxT("UTF-8"), wxXMLDOC_KEEP_WHITESPACE_NODES);
366
367 // myfile2.xml will be indentic to myfile.xml saving it this way:
368 doc.Save(wxT("myfile2.xml"), wxXML_NO_INDENTATION);
369 @endcode
370
371 Using default parameters, you will get a reformatted document which in general
372 is different from
373 the original loaded content:
374
375 @code
376 wxXmlDocument doc;
377 doc.Load(wxT("myfile.xml"));
378 doc.Save(wxT("myfile2.xml")); // myfile2.xml != myfile.xml
379 @endcode
380
381 @library{wxxml}
382 @category{xml}
383
384 @see wxXmlNode, wxXmlAttribute
385 */
386 class wxXmlDocument : public wxObject
387 {
388 public:
389 //@{
390 /**
391 Copy constructor. Deep copies all the XML tree of the given document.
392 */
393 wxXmlDocument();
394 wxXmlDocument(const wxString& filename);
395 wxXmlDocument(wxInputStream& stream);
396 wxXmlDocument(const wxXmlDocument& doc);
397 //@}
398
399 /**
400 Virtual destructor. Frees the document root node.
401 */
402 ~wxXmlDocument();
403
404 /**
405 Detaches the document root node and returns it. The document root node will be
406 set to @NULL
407 and thus IsOk() will return @false after calling this function.
408 Note that the caller is reponsible for deleting the returned node in order to
409 avoid memory leaks.
410 */
411 wxXmlNode* DetachRoot();
412
413 /**
414 Returns encoding of in-memory representation of the document
415 (same as passed to Load() or constructor, defaults to UTF-8).
416 NB: this is meaningless in Unicode build where data are stored as @c wchar_t*.
417 */
418 wxString GetEncoding() const;
419
420 /**
421 Returns encoding of document (may be empty).
422 Note: this is the encoding original file was saved in, @b not the
423 encoding of in-memory representation!
424 */
425 wxString GetFileEncoding() const;
426
427 /**
428 Returns the root node of the document.
429 */
430 wxXmlNode* GetRoot() const;
431
432 /**
433 Returns the version of document.
434 This is the value in the @c ?xml version="1.0"? header of the XML document.
435 If the version attribute was not explicitely given in the header, this function
436 returns an empty string.
437 */
438 wxString GetVersion() const;
439
440 /**
441 Returns @true if the document has been loaded successfully.
442 */
443 bool IsOk() const;
444
445 //@{
446 /**
447 , @b int@e flags = wxXMLDOC_NONE)
448 Like above but takes the data from given input stream.
449 */
450 bool Load(const wxString& filename);
451 int bool Load(wxInputStream& stream);
452 //@}
453
454 //@{
455 /**
456 Saves XML tree in the given output stream. See other overload for a description
457 of @c indentstep.
458 */
459 bool Save(const wxString& filename, int indentstep = 1) const;
460 const bool Save(wxOutputStream& stream, int indentstep = 1) const;
461 //@}
462
463 /**
464 Sets the enconding of the document.
465 */
466 void SetEncoding(const wxString& enc);
467
468 /**
469 Sets the enconding of the file which will be used to save the document.
470 */
471 void SetFileEncoding(const wxString& encoding);
472
473 /**
474 Sets the root node of this document. Deletes previous root node.
475 Use DetachRoot() and then
476 SetRoot() if you want
477 to replace the root node without deleting the old document tree.
478 */
479 void SetRoot(wxXmlNode* node);
480
481 /**
482 Sets the version of the XML file which will be used to save the document.
483 */
484 void SetVersion(const wxString& version);
485
486 /**
487 Deep copies the given document.
488 */
489 wxXmlDocument& operator operator=(const wxXmlDocument& doc);
490 };
491