/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Name: xml/xml.h
-// Purpose: documentation for wxXmlNode class
+// Purpose: interface of wxXmlNode
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
// Licence: wxWindows license
@library{wxxml}
@category{xml}
- @seealso
- wxXmlDocument, wxXmlAttribute
+ @see wxXmlDocument, wxXmlAttribute
*/
class wxXmlNode
{
//@}
/**
- Adds the given node as child of this node. To attach a second children to this
- node, use the
- SetNext() function of the @a child node.
+ Adds node @a child as the last child of this node.
+
+ @note
+ Note that this function works in O(n) time where @e n is the number
+ of existing children. Consequently, adding large number of child
+ nodes using this method can be expensive, because it has O(n^2) time
+ complexity in number of nodes to be added. Use InsertChildAfter() to
+ populate XML tree in linear time.
+
+ @see InsertChild(), InsertChildAfter()
*/
void AddChild(wxXmlNode* child);
Returns the value of the attribute named @a attrName if it does exist.
If it does not exist, the @a defaultVal is returned.
*/
- bool GetAttribute(const wxString& attrName, wxString* value);
- wxString GetAttribute(const wxString& attrName,
- const wxString& defaultVal);
+ bool GetAttribute(const wxString& attrName, wxString* value) const;
+ const wxString GetAttribute(const wxString& attrName,
+ const wxString& defaultVal = wxEmptyString) const;
//@}
/**
Return a pointer to the first attribute of this node.
*/
- wxXmlAttribute* GetAttributes();
+ wxXmlAttribute* GetAttributes() const;
/**
Returns the first child of this node.
To get a pointer to the second child of this node (if it does exist), use the
GetNext() function on the returned value.
*/
- wxXmlNode* GetChildren();
+ wxXmlNode* GetChildren() const;
/**
Returns the content of this node. Can be an empty string.
the
content is an empty string. See GetNodeContent() for more details.
*/
- wxString GetContent();
+ wxString GetContent() const;
/**
Returns the number of nodes which separe this node from @c grandparent.
or the @NULL node (which is the parent of non-linked nodes or the parent of a
wxXmlDocument's root node).
*/
- int GetDepth(wxXmlNode* grandparent = NULL);
+ int GetDepth(wxXmlNode* grandparent = NULL) const;
/**
Returns line number of the node in the input XML file or -1 if it is unknown.
*/
- int GetLineNumber();
+ int GetLineNumber() const;
/**
Returns the name of this node. Can be an empty string (e.g. for nodes of type
@c wxXML_TEXT_NODE or @c wxXML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE).
*/
- wxString GetName();
+ wxString GetName() const;
/**
Returns a pointer to the sibling of this node or @NULL if there are no
siblings.
*/
- wxXmlNode* GetNext();
+ wxXmlNode* GetNext() const;
/**
Returns the content of the first child node of type @c wxXML_TEXT_NODE or @c
This function is very useful since the XML snippet @c
"tagnametagcontent/tagname" is represented by
expat with the following tag tree:
-
+
or eventually:
-
+
An empty string is returned if the node has no children of type @c
wxXML_TEXT_NODE or @c wxXML_CDATA_SECTION_NODE, or if the content of the first child of such types is empty.
*/
- wxString GetNodeContent();
+ wxString GetNodeContent() const;
/**
Returns a pointer to the parent of this node or @NULL if this node has no
parent.
*/
- wxXmlNode* GetParent();
+ wxXmlNode* GetParent() const;
/**
Returns the type of this node.
*/
- wxXmlNodeType GetType();
+ wxXmlNodeType GetType() const;
/**
Returns @true if this node has a attribute named @e attrName.
*/
- bool HasAttribute(const wxString& attrName);
+ bool HasAttribute(const wxString& attrName) const;
/**
- Inserts the @a child node after @a before_node in the children list.
- If @a before_node is @NULL, then @a child is prepended to the list of
- children and
- becomes the first child of this node.
- Returns @true if @a before_node has been found and the @a child node has been
- inserted.
+ Inserts the @a child node immediately before @a followingNode in the
+ children list.
+
+ @return @true if @a followingNode has been found and the @a child
+ node has been inserted.
+
+ @note
+ For historical reasons, @a followingNode may be @NULL. In that case,
+ then @a child is prepended to the list of children and becomes the
+ first child of this node, i.e. it behaves identically to using the
+ first children (as returned by GetChildren()) for @a followingNode).
+
+ @see AddChild(), InsertChildAfter()
*/
- bool InsertChild(wxXmlNode* child, wxXmlNode* before_node);
+ bool InsertChild(wxXmlNode* child, wxXmlNode* followingNode);
+
+ /**
+ Inserts the @a child node immediately after @a precedingNode in the
+ children list.
+
+ @return @true if @a precedingNode has been found and the @a child
+ node has been inserted.
+
+ @param precedingNode
+ The node to insert @a child after. As a special case, this can be
+ @NULL if this node has no children yet -- in that case, @a child
+ will become this node's only child node.
+
+ @since 2.8.8
+
+ @see InsertChild(), AddChild()
+ */
+ bool InsertChildAfter(wxXmlNode* child, wxXmlNode* precedingNode);
/**
Returns @true if the content of this node is a string containing only
documents must always produce the exact same tree regardless of the locale it
runs under.
*/
- bool IsWhitespaceOnly();
+ bool IsWhitespaceOnly() const;
/**
Removes the given node from the children list. Returns @true if the node was
};
+
/**
@class wxXmlAttribute
@headerfile xml.h wx/xml/xml.h
@library{wxxml}
@category{xml}
- @seealso
- wxXmlDocument, wxXmlNode
+ @see wxXmlDocument, wxXmlNode
*/
class wxXmlAttribute
{
/**
Returns the name of this attribute.
*/
- wxString GetName();
+ wxString GetName() const;
/**
Returns the sibling of this attribute or @NULL if there are no siblings.
*/
- wxXmlAttribute* GetNext();
+ wxXmlAttribute* GetNext() const;
/**
Returns the value of this attribute.
*/
- wxString GetValue();
+ wxString GetValue() const;
/**
Sets the name of this attribute.
};
+
/**
@class wxXmlDocument
@headerfile xml.h wx/xml/xml.h
}
@endcode
- @b Note: if you want to preserve the original formatting of the loaded file
+ @note if you want to preserve the original formatting of the loaded file
including whitespaces
and indentation, you need to turn off whitespace-only textnode removal and
automatic indentation:
@library{wxxml}
@category{xml}
- @seealso
- wxXmlNode, wxXmlAttribute
+ @see wxXmlNode, wxXmlAttribute
*/
class wxXmlDocument : public wxObject
{
/**
Returns encoding of in-memory representation of the document
(same as passed to Load() or constructor, defaults to UTF-8).
- NB: this is meaningless in Unicode build where data are stored as @c wchar_t*.
+ @note this is meaningless in Unicode build where data are stored as @c wchar_t*.
*/
- wxString GetEncoding();
+ wxString GetEncoding() const;
/**
Returns encoding of document (may be empty).
Note: this is the encoding original file was saved in, @b not the
encoding of in-memory representation!
*/
- wxString GetFileEncoding();
+ wxString GetFileEncoding() const;
/**
Returns the root node of the document.
*/
- wxXmlNode* GetRoot();
+ wxXmlNode* GetRoot() const;
/**
Returns the version of document.
If the version attribute was not explicitely given in the header, this function
returns an empty string.
*/
- wxString GetVersion();
+ wxString GetVersion() const;
/**
Returns @true if the document has been loaded successfully.
*/
- bool IsOk();
+ bool IsOk() const;
//@{
/**
Saves XML tree in the given output stream. See other overload for a description
of @c indentstep.
*/
- bool Save(const wxString& filename, int indentstep = 1);
- bool Save(wxOutputStream& stream, int indentstep = 1);
+ bool Save(const wxString& filename, int indentstep = 1) const;
+ const bool Save(wxOutputStream& stream, int indentstep = 1) const;
//@}
/**
*/
wxXmlDocument& operator operator=(const wxXmlDocument& doc);
};
+