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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 after @a before_node in the children list.
161 If @a before_node is @NULL, then @a child is prepended to the list of
162 children and
163 becomes the first child of this node.
164 Returns @true if @a before_node has been found and the @a child node has been
165 inserted.
166 */
167 bool InsertChild(wxXmlNode* child, wxXmlNode* before_node);
168
169 /**
170 Returns @true if the content of this node is a string containing only
171 whitespaces (spaces,
172 tabs, new lines, etc). Note that this function is locale-independent since the
173 parsing of XML
174 documents must always produce the exact same tree regardless of the locale it
175 runs under.
176 */
177 bool IsWhitespaceOnly() const;
178
179 /**
180 Removes the given node from the children list. Returns @true if the node was
181 found and removed
182 or @false if the node could not be found.
183 Note that the caller is reponsible for deleting the removed node in order to
184 avoid memory leaks.
185 */
186 bool RemoveChild(wxXmlNode* child);
187
188 /**
189 Sets as first attribute the given wxXmlAttribute object.
190 The caller is responsible to delete any previously present attributes attached
191 to this node.
192 */
193 void SetAttributes(wxXmlAttribute* attr);
194
195 /**
196 Sets as first child the given node. The caller is responsible to delete any
197 previously present
198 children node.
199 */
200 void SetChildren(wxXmlNode* child);
201
202 /**
203 Sets the content of this node.
204 */
205 void SetContent(const wxString& con);
206
207 /**
208 Sets the name of this node.
209 */
210 void SetName(const wxString& name);
211
212 /**
213 Sets as sibling the given node. The caller is responsible to delete any
214 previously present
215 sibling node.
216 */
217 void SetNext(wxXmlNode* next);
218
219 /**
220 Sets as parent the given node. The caller is responsible to delete any
221 previously present
222 parent node.
223 */
224 void SetParent(wxXmlNode* parent);
225
226 /**
227 Sets the type of this node.
228 */
229 void SetType(wxXmlNodeType type);
230
231 /**
232 See the copy constructor for more info.
233 */
234 wxXmlNode operator=(const wxXmlNode& node);
235 };
236
237
238
239 /**
240 @class wxXmlAttribute
241 @headerfile xml.h wx/xml/xml.h
242
243 Represents a node attribute.
244
245 Example: in @c img src="hello.gif" id="3"/, @c "src" is attribute with value
246 @c "hello.gif" and @c "id" is a attribute with value @c "3".
247
248 @library{wxxml}
249 @category{xml}
250
251 @see wxXmlDocument, wxXmlNode
252 */
253 class wxXmlAttribute
254 {
255 public:
256 //@{
257 /**
258 Creates the attribute with given @a name and @e value.
259 If @a next is not @NULL, then sets it as sibling of this attribute.
260 */
261 wxXmlAttribute();
262 wxXmlAttribute(const wxString& name, const wxString& value,
263 wxXmlAttribute* next = NULL);
264 //@}
265
266 /**
267 The virtual destructor.
268 */
269 ~wxXmlAttribute();
270
271 /**
272 Returns the name of this attribute.
273 */
274 wxString GetName() const;
275
276 /**
277 Returns the sibling of this attribute or @NULL if there are no siblings.
278 */
279 wxXmlAttribute* GetNext() const;
280
281 /**
282 Returns the value of this attribute.
283 */
284 wxString GetValue() const;
285
286 /**
287 Sets the name of this attribute.
288 */
289 void SetName(const wxString& name);
290
291 /**
292 Sets the sibling of this attribute.
293 */
294 void SetNext(wxXmlAttribute* next);
295
296 /**
297 Sets the value of this attribute.
298 */
299 void SetValue(const wxString& value);
300 };
301
302
303
304 /**
305 @class wxXmlDocument
306 @headerfile xml.h wx/xml/xml.h
307
308 This class holds XML data/document as parsed by XML parser in the root node.
309
310 wxXmlDocument internally uses the expat library which comes with wxWidgets to
311 parse the given stream.
312
313 A simple example of using XML classes is:
314
315 @code
316 wxXmlDocument doc;
317 if (!doc.Load(wxT("myfile.xml")))
318 return @false;
319
320 // start processing the XML file
321 if (doc.GetRoot()-GetName() != wxT("myroot-node"))
322 return @false;
323
324 wxXmlNode *child = doc.GetRoot()-GetChildren();
325 while (child) {
326
327 if (child-GetName() == wxT("tag1")) {
328
329 // process text enclosed by tag1/tag1
330 wxString content = child-GetNodeContent();
331
332 ...
333
334 // process attributes of tag1
335 wxString attrvalue1 =
336 child-GetAttribute(wxT("attr1"),
337 wxT("default-value"));
338 wxString attrvalue2 =
339 child-GetAttribute(wxT("attr2"),
340 wxT("default-value"));
341
342 ...
343
344 } else if (child-GetName() == wxT("tag2")) {
345
346 // process tag2 ...
347 }
348
349 child = child-GetNext();
350 }
351 @endcode
352
353 @b Note: if you want to preserve the original formatting of the loaded file
354 including whitespaces
355 and indentation, you need to turn off whitespace-only textnode removal and
356 automatic indentation:
357
358 @code
359 wxXmlDocument doc;
360 doc.Load(wxT("myfile.xml"), wxT("UTF-8"), wxXMLDOC_KEEP_WHITESPACE_NODES);
361
362 // myfile2.xml will be indentic to myfile.xml saving it this way:
363 doc.Save(wxT("myfile2.xml"), wxXML_NO_INDENTATION);
364 @endcode
365
366 Using default parameters, you will get a reformatted document which in general
367 is different from
368 the original loaded content:
369
370 @code
371 wxXmlDocument doc;
372 doc.Load(wxT("myfile.xml"));
373 doc.Save(wxT("myfile2.xml")); // myfile2.xml != myfile.xml
374 @endcode
375
376 @library{wxxml}
377 @category{xml}
378
379 @see wxXmlNode, wxXmlAttribute
380 */
381 class wxXmlDocument : public wxObject
382 {
383 public:
384 //@{
385 /**
386 Copy constructor. Deep copies all the XML tree of the given document.
387 */
388 wxXmlDocument();
389 wxXmlDocument(const wxString& filename);
390 wxXmlDocument(wxInputStream& stream);
391 wxXmlDocument(const wxXmlDocument& doc);
392 //@}
393
394 /**
395 Virtual destructor. Frees the document root node.
396 */
397 ~wxXmlDocument();
398
399 /**
400 Detaches the document root node and returns it. The document root node will be
401 set to @NULL
402 and thus IsOk() will return @false after calling this function.
403 Note that the caller is reponsible for deleting the returned node in order to
404 avoid memory leaks.
405 */
406 wxXmlNode* DetachRoot();
407
408 /**
409 Returns encoding of in-memory representation of the document
410 (same as passed to Load() or constructor, defaults to UTF-8).
411 NB: this is meaningless in Unicode build where data are stored as @c wchar_t*.
412 */
413 wxString GetEncoding() const;
414
415 /**
416 Returns encoding of document (may be empty).
417 Note: this is the encoding original file was saved in, @b not the
418 encoding of in-memory representation!
419 */
420 wxString GetFileEncoding() const;
421
422 /**
423 Returns the root node of the document.
424 */
425 wxXmlNode* GetRoot() const;
426
427 /**
428 Returns the version of document.
429 This is the value in the @c ?xml version="1.0"? header of the XML document.
430 If the version attribute was not explicitely given in the header, this function
431 returns an empty string.
432 */
433 wxString GetVersion() const;
434
435 /**
436 Returns @true if the document has been loaded successfully.
437 */
438 bool IsOk() const;
439
440 //@{
441 /**
442 , @b int@e flags = wxXMLDOC_NONE)
443 Like above but takes the data from given input stream.
444 */
445 bool Load(const wxString& filename);
446 int bool Load(wxInputStream& stream);
447 //@}
448
449 //@{
450 /**
451 Saves XML tree in the given output stream. See other overload for a description
452 of @c indentstep.
453 */
454 bool Save(const wxString& filename, int indentstep = 1) const;
455 const bool Save(wxOutputStream& stream, int indentstep = 1) const;
456 //@}
457
458 /**
459 Sets the enconding of the document.
460 */
461 void SetEncoding(const wxString& enc);
462
463 /**
464 Sets the enconding of the file which will be used to save the document.
465 */
466 void SetFileEncoding(const wxString& encoding);
467
468 /**
469 Sets the root node of this document. Deletes previous root node.
470 Use DetachRoot() and then
471 SetRoot() if you want
472 to replace the root node without deleting the old document tree.
473 */
474 void SetRoot(wxXmlNode* node);
475
476 /**
477 Sets the version of the XML file which will be used to save the document.
478 */
479 void SetVersion(const wxString& version);
480
481 /**
482 Deep copies the given document.
483 */
484 wxXmlDocument& operator operator=(const wxXmlDocument& doc);
485 };
486