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<h1>GSXMLParser</h1>
<h3>Authors</h3>
<dl>
<dt>Michael Pakhantsov
<dd>
<dt>Richard Frith-Macdonald
<dd>
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<p>Version: 0.1</p>
<p>Date: 15 September, 2000</p>
<h2><a name="cont-0">GSXMLParser</a></h2>
<h2><a name="GSXMLParser">GSXMLParser</a></h2>
<p><b>Declared in:</b> GSXML.h</p>
<p><b>Inherits from:</b> NSObject</p>
<hr>
<p>
The XML parser object is the pivotal part of parsing an XML
document - it will either build a tree representing the
document, or will cooperate with a GSSAXHandler object to
provide parsing without the overhead of building a tree.
</p>
<h2>Instance Variables</h2>
<ul>
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<h2>Methods</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-0">+parser:</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-2">+parserWithSAXHandler:source:</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-4">+xmlEncodingStringForStringEncoding:</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-15">-doValidityChecking:</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-7">-doc</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-16">-errNo</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-14">-getWarnings:</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-5">-initWithSAXHandler:source:</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-13">-keepBlanks:</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-6">-lib</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-8">-parse</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-10">-parse:</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-17">-setExternalEntityLoader</a>
<li><a href="GSXMLParser.html#method-12">-substituteEntites:</a>
</ul>
<hr><h2>Class Methods</h2>
<h3><a name="method-0">parser:</a></h3>
+ (<A HREF="GSXMLParser.html#GSXMLParser">GSXMLParser</A>*) <b>parser:</b> (id)source;<br>
<p>
Creation of a new Parser by calling initWithSAXHandler:source:
</p>
<p>
Source must be <code>NSString</code> (file name),
<code>NSData</code> (raw document contnets),
<code>NSURL</code> (not yet implemented),
or <code>nil</code> (for incremental parsing).
</p>
<a name="label-1">example</a>
<pre>
GSXMLParser *p = [GSXMLParser parser: @"macos.xml"];
if ([p parse])
{
[[p doc] dump];
}
else
{
printf("error parse file\n");
}
</pre>
<hr>
<h3><a name="method-2">parserWithSAXHandler:source:</a></h3>
+ (GSXMlParser*) <b>parserWithSAXHandler:</b> (GSSAXHandler*)handler <b>source:</b> (id)source;<br>
<p>
Creation of a new Parser by calling initWithSAXHandler:source:
</p>
<p>
Source must be <code>NSString</code> (file name),
<code>NSData</code> (raw document contnets),
<code>NSURL</code> (not yet implemented),
or <code>nil</code> (for incremental parsing).
</p>
<p>
If the handler object supplied is nil, the parser will build
a tree representing the parsed file rather than attempting
to get the handler to deal with the parsed elements and entities.
</p>
<a name="label-3">example</a>
<pre>
NSAutoreleasePool *arp = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
GSSAXHandler *h = [GSDebugSAXHandler handler];
GSXMLParser *p = [GSXMLParser parserWithSAXHandler: h
source: @"macos.xml"];
if ([p parse])
{
printf("ok\n");
}
[arp release];
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<hr>
<h3><a name="method-4">xmlEncodingStringForStringEncoding:</a></h3>
+ (NSString*) <b>xmlEncodingStringForStringEncoding:</b> (NSStringEncoding)encoding;<br>
Return the name of the string encoding (for XML) to use for the
specified OpenStep encoding.
<hr>
<hr><h2>Instances Methods</h2>
<h3><a name="method-5">initWithSAXHandler:source:</a></h3>
<b>This is the designated initialiser</b><br>
- (id) <b>initWithSAXHandler:</b> (GSSAXHandler*)handler <b>source:</b> (id)source;<br>
<p>
Initialisation of a new Parser with SAX handler (if not nil).
</p>
<p>
The source object is intended to be any reasonable value,
but for initial implementation may be an NSData object
containing raw XML text, or the name of a file to parse.
</p>
<p>
In the future, it is intended that this method will also
support NSYRL objects.
</p>
<p>
If the source object is <code>nil</code> then the parser will
be initialised for incremental parsing.
</p>
<p>
If the handler object supplied is nil, the parser will build
a tree representing the parsed file rather than attempting
to get the handler to deal with the parsed elements and entities.
</p>
<hr>
<h3><a name="method-6">lib</a></h3>
- (void*) <b>lib</b>;<br>
<p>
Return pointer to xmlParserCtxt structure.
</p>
<hr>
<h3><a name="method-7">doc</a></h3>
- (GSXMLDocument*) <b>doc</b>;<br>
<p>
Return GSXMLDocument object.
</p>
<hr>
<h3><a name="method-8">parse</a></h3>
- (BOOL) <b>parse</b>;<br>
<p>
Parse source. Return YES if parsed, otherwise NO.
This method should be called once to parse the entiore document.
</p>
<a name="label-9">example</a>
<pre>
GSXMLParser *p = [GSXMLParser parser:@"macos.xml"];
if ([p parse])
{
[[p doc] dump];
}
else
{
printf("error parse file\n");
}
</pre>
<hr>
<h3><a name="method-10">parse:</a></h3>
- (BOOL) <b>parse:</b> (NSData*)data;<br>
<p>
Pass data to the parser for incremental parsing. This method
should be called many times, with each call passing another
block of data from the same document. After the whole of the
document has been parsed, the method should be called with
an empty or nil data object to indicate end of parsing.
Once this has been done, the method may be used again to
parse a new document.
</p>
<a name="label-11">example</a>
<pre>
GSXMLParser *p = [GSXMLParser parserWithSAXHandler: nil source: nil];
while ((data = getMoreData()) != nil)
{
if ([p parse: data] == NO)
{
NSLog(@"parse error");
}
}
// Do something with document parsed
[p parse: nil]; // Ready to parse another document.
</pre>
<hr>
<h3><a name="method-12">substituteEntites:</a></h3>
- (BOOL) <b>substituteEntites:</b> (BOOL)yesno;<br>
<p>
Set and return the previous value for default entity support.
Initially the parser always keep entity references instead of substituting
entity values in the output.
</p>
<hr>
<h3><a name="method-13">keepBlanks:</a></h3>
- (BOOL) <b>keepBlanks:</b> (BOOL)yesno;<br>
<p>
Set and return the previous value for default blanks text nodes support.
ignorableWhitespace() are only generated when running the parser in validating mode
and when the current element doesn't allow CDATA or mixed content.
</p>
<hr>
<h3><a name="method-14">getWarnings:</a></h3>
- (BOOL) <b>getWarnings:</b> (BOOL)yesno;<br>
<hr>
<h3><a name="method-15">doValidityChecking:</a></h3>
- (BOOL) <b>doValidityChecking:</b> (BOOL)yesno;<br>
<p>
Sets whether the document needs to be validated.
</p>
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<h3><a name="method-16">errNo</a></h3>
- (int) <b>errNo</b>;<br>
<p>
Return error code.
</p>
<hr>
<h3><a name="method-17">setExternalEntityLoader</a></h3>
- (void) <b>setExternalEntityLoader</b> (void*)function;<br>
<p>
Set a external entity loader.
</p>
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