11. Parsers

Module Parser.XML


Inherit XML

inherit Parser._parser.XML : XML


Method autoconvert

string autoconvert(string xml)


Method node_to_struct

mapping(string:string|array|mapping) node_to_struct(.NSTree.NSNode|.Tree.Node rootnode)

Description

XML parsing made easy.

Returns

A hierarchical structure of nested mappings and arrays representing the XML structure starting at rootnode using a minimal depth.

"" : string

The text content of the node.

"/" : mapping

The arguments on this node.

"..." : string

The text content of a simple subnode.

"..." : array

A list of subnodes.

"..." : mapping

A complex subnode (recurse).

Example
Parser.XML.node_to_struct(Parser.XML.NSTree.parse_input("<foo>bar</foo>"));

Class Parser.XML.Simple


Method allow_rxml_entities

void allow_rxml_entities(bool yes_no)


Method compat_allow_errors

void compat_allow_errors(string version)

Description

Set whether the parser should allow certain errors for compatibility with earlier versions. version can be:

"7.2"

Allow more data after the root element.

"7.6"

Allow multiple and invalidly placed "<?xml ... ?>" and "<!DOCTYPE ... >" declarations (invalid "<?xml ... ?>" declarations are otherwise treated as normal PI:s). Allow "<![CDATA[ ... ]]>" outside the root element. Allow the root element to be absent.

version can also be zero to enable all error checks.


Method define_entity

void define_entity(string entity, string s, function(:void) cb, mixed ... extras)

Description

Define an entity or an SMEG.

Parameter entity

Entity name, or SMEG name (if preceeded by a "%").

Parameter s

Expansion of the entity. Entity evaluation will be performed.

See also

define_entity_raw()


Method define_entity_raw

void define_entity_raw(string entity, string raw)

Description

Define an entity or an SMEG.

Parameter entity

Entity name, or SMEG name (if preceeded by a "%").

Parameter raw

Verbatim expansion of the entity.

See also

define_entity()


Method lookup_entity

string lookup_entity(string entity)

Returns

Returns the verbatim expansion of the entity.


Method parse

array parse(string xml, string context, function(:void) cb, mixed ... extra_args)
array parse(string xml, function(:void) cb, mixed ... extra_args)


Method parse_dtd

mixed parse_dtd(string dtd, string context, function(:void) cb, mixed ... extras)
mixed parse_dtd(string dtd, function(:void) cb, mixed ... extras)

Class Parser.XML.Simple.Context


Method create

Parser.XML.Simple.Context Parser.XML.Simple.Context(string s, string context, int flags, function(:void) cb, mixed ... extra_args)
Parser.XML.Simple.Context Parser.XML.Simple.Context(string s, int flags, function(:void) cb, mixed ... extra_args)

Parameter s
Parameter context

These two arguments are passed along to push_string().

Parameter flags

Parser flags.

Parameter cb

Callback function. This function gets called at various stages during the parsing.


Method parse_dtd

mixed parse_dtd()


Method parse_entity

string parse_entity()


Method parse_xml

mixed parse_xml()


Method push_string

void push_string(string s)
void push_string(string s, string context)

Description

Add a string to parse at the current position.

Parameter s

String to insert at the current parsing position.

Parameter context

Optional context used to refer to the inserted string. This is typically an URL, but may also be an entity (preceeded by an "&") or a SMEG reference (preceeded by a "%"). Not used by the XML parser as such, but is simply passed into the callbackinfo mapping as the field "context" where it can be useful for eg resolving relative URLs when parsing DTDs, or for determining where errors occur.

Class Parser.XML.Validating

Description

Validating XML parser.

Validates an XML file according to a DTD.

cf http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/


Inherit Simple

inherit .Simple : Simple

Description

Extends the Simple XML parser.


Method get_external_entity

string|zero get_external_entity(string sysid, string|void pubid, mapping|void info, mixed ... extra)

Description

Get an external entity.

Called when a <!DOCTYPE> with a SYSTEM identifier is encountered, or when an entity reference needs expanding.

Parameter sysid

The SYSTEM identifier.

Parameter pubid

The PUBLIC identifier (if any).

Parameter info

The callbackinfo mapping containing the current parser state.

Parameter extra

The extra arguments as passed to parse() or parse_dtd().

Returns

Returns a string with a DTD fragment on success. Returns 0 (zero) on failure.

Note

Returning zero will cause the validator to report an error.

Note

In Pike 7.7 and earlier info had the value 0 (zero).

Note

The default implementation always returns 0 (zero). Override this function to provide other behaviour.

See also

parse(), parse_dtd()


Method isname

int isname(string s)

Description

Check if s is a valid Name.


Method isnames

int isnames(string s)

Description

Check if s is a valid list of Names.


Method isnmtoken

int isnmtoken(string s)

Description

Check if s is a valid Nmtoken.


Method isnmtokens

int isnmtokens(string s)

Description

Check if s is a valid list of Nmtokens.


Method parse

array parse(string data, string|function(string, string, mapping, array|string, mapping(string:mixed), __unknown__ ... :mixed) callback, mixed ... extra)

FIXME

Document this function


Method parse_dtd

array parse_dtd(string data, string|function(string, string, mapping, array|string, mapping(string:mixed), __unknown__ ... :mixed) callback, mixed ... extra)

FIXME

Document this function


Method validate

private mixed validate(string kind, string name, mapping attributes, array|string contents, mapping(string:mixed) info, function(string, string|zero, mapping|zero, array|string, mapping(string:mixed), __unknown__ ... :mixed) callback, array(mixed) extra)

Description

The validation callback function.

See also

::parse()

Class Parser.XML.Validating.Element

Description

XML Element node.

Module Parser.XML.NSTree

Description

A namespace aware version of Parser.XML.Tree. This implementation does as little validation as possible, so e.g. you can call your namespace xmlfoo without complaints.


Inherit Tree

inherit Parser.XML.Tree : Tree


Method parse_input

NSNode parse_input(string data, void|string default_ns)

Description

Takes a XML string data and produces a namespace node tree. If default_ns is given, it will be used as the default namespace.

Throws

Throws an error when an error is encountered during XML parsing.


Method visualize

string visualize(Node n, void|string indent)

Description

Makes a visualization of a node graph suitable for printing out on a terminal.

Example

> object x = parse_input("<a><b><c/>d</b><b><e/><f>g</f></b></a>"); > write(visualize(x)); Node(ROOT) NSNode(ELEMENT,"a") NSNode(ELEMENT,"b") NSNode(ELEMENT,"c") NSNode(TEXT) NSNode(ELEMENT,"b") NSNode(ELEMENT,"e") NSNode(ELEMENT,"f") NSNode(TEXT) Result 1: 201

Class Parser.XML.NSTree.NSNode

Description

Namespace aware node.


Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Method add_namespace

void add_namespace(string ns, void|string symbol, void|bool chain)

Description

Adds a new namespace to this node. The preferred symbol to use to identify the namespace can be provided in the symbol argument. If chain is set, no attempts to overwrite an already defined namespace with the same identifier will be made.


Method change_namespace

void change_namespace(string from, string to)

Description

Change all elements and attributes in the subtree in namespace from to namespace to. In case an attribute is defined in both namespaces it will be overwritten.


Method child_namespaces

mapping child_namespaces(mapping(Node:mapping(string:string)) intermediate)

Description

Return the defined namespaces from the tree.

Parameter intermediate

If namespaces are clobbered, the node that needs additional xmlns attributes are added to this mapping.


Method diff_namespaces

mapping(string:string) diff_namespaces()

Description

Returns the difference between this node and its parent namespaces.


Method get_default_ns

string get_default_ns()

Description

Returns the default namespace in the current scope.


Method get_defined_nss

mapping(string:string) get_defined_nss()

Description

Returns a mapping with all the namespaces defined in the current scope, except the default namespace.

Note

The returned mapping is the same as the one in the node, so destructive changes will affect the node.


Method get_ns

string get_ns()

Description

Returns the namespace in which the current element is defined in.


Method get_ns_attributes

mapping(string:mapping(string:string)) get_ns_attributes()

Description

Returns all the attributes in all namespaces that is associated with this node.

Note

The returned mapping is the same as the one in the node, so destructive changes will affect the node.


Method get_ns_attributes

mapping(string:string) get_ns_attributes(string namespace)

Description

Returns the attributes in this node that is declared in the provided namespace.


Method get_ns_short

string get_ns_short(string ns)

Description

Returns the short name for the given namespace in this context. Returns the empty string if the namespace is the default namespace. Returns 0 if the namespace is unknown.


Method get_short_attributes

mapping(string:string) get_short_attributes()

Description

Return the attributes for the element with the names given their short name prefixes.


Method get_xml_name

string get_xml_name()

Description

Returns the element name as it occurs in xml files. E.g. "zonk:name" for the element "name" defined in a namespace denoted with "zonk". It will look up a symbol for the namespace in the symbol tables for the node and its parents. If none is found a new label will be generated by hashing the namespace.


Method remove_child

void remove_child(NSNode child)

Description

The remove_child is a not updated to take care of name space issues. To properly remove all the parents name spaces from the chid, call remove_node in the child.


Method rename_namespace

void rename_namespace(string from, string to)

Description

Renames the namespace prefix of a namespace. No checks will be made to see if the namespace represented is the same throughout the subtree.


Method render_xml

string render_xml(void|string encoding)

Description

Renders the object tree to a string.

Parameter encoding

The character encoding to be used. Defaults the character encoding in the XML header, or UTF-8 if none.

Module Parser.XML.SloppyDOM

Description

A somewhat DOM-like library that implements lazy generation of the node tree, i.e. it's generated from the data upon lookup. There's also a little bit of XPath evaluation to do queries on the node tree.

Implementation note: This is generally more pragmatic than Parser.XML.DOM, meaning it's not so pretty and compliant, but more efficient.

Implementation status: There's only enough implemented to parse a node tree from source and access it, i.e. modification functions aren't implemented. Data hiding stuff like NodeList and NamedNodeMap is not implemented, partly since it's cumbersome to meet the "live" requirement. Also, Parser.HTML is used in XML mode to parse the input. Thus it's too error tolerant to be XML compliant, and it currently doesn't handle DTD elements, like "<!DOCTYPE", or the XML declaration (i.e. "<?xml version='1.0'?>".


Method parse

Document parse(string source, void|int raw_values)

Description

Normally entities are decoded, and Node.xml_format will encode them again. If raw_values is nonzero then all text and attribute values are instead kept in their original form.

Class Parser.XML.SloppyDOM.Document

Note

The node tree is very likely a cyclic structure, so it might be an good idea to destruct it when you're finished with it, to avoid garbage. Destructing the Document object always destroys all nodes in it.


Inherit NodeWithChildElements

inherit NodeWithChildElements : NodeWithChildElements


Method get_elements

array(Element) get_elements(string name)

Description

Note that this one looks among the top level elements, as opposed to get_elements_by_tag_name. This means that if the document is correct, you can only look up the single top level element here.

Note

Not DOM compliant.


Method get_raw_values

int get_raw_values()

Note

Not DOM compliant.

Class Parser.XML.SloppyDOM.Node

Description

Basic node.


Method get_text_content

string get_text_content()

Description

If the raw_values flag is set in the owning document, the text is returned with entities and CDATA blocks intact.

See also

parse


Method simple_path

mapping(string:string)|Node|array(mapping(string:string)|Node)|string|zero simple_path(string path, void|int xml_format)

Description

Access a node or a set of nodes through an expression that is a subset of an XPath RelativeLocationPath in abbreviated form.

That means one or more Steps separated by "/" or "//". A Step consists of an AxisSpecifier followed by a NodeTest and then optionally by one or more Predicate's.

"/" before a Step causes it to be matched only against the immediate children of the node(s) selected by the previous Step. "//" before a Step causes it to be matched against any children in the tree below the node(s) selected by the previous Step. The initial selection before the first Step is this element.

The currently allowed AxisSpecifier NodeTest combinations are:

  • name to select all elements with the given name. The name can be "*" to select all.

  • @name to select all attributes with the given name. The name can be "*" to select all.

  • comment() to select all comments.

  • text() to select all text and CDATA blocks. Note that all entity references are also selected, under the assumption that they would expand to text only.

  • processing-instruction("name") to select all processing instructions with the given name. The name can be left out to select all. Either ' or " may be used to delimit the name. For compatibility, it can also occur without surrounding quotes.

  • node() to select all nodes, i.e. the whole content of an element node.

  • . to select the currently selected element itself.

A Predicate is on the form [PredicateExpr] where PredicateExpr currently can be in any of the following forms:

  • An integer indexes one item in the selected set, according to the document order. A negative index counts from the end of the set.

  • A RelativeLocationPath as specified above. It's executed for each element in the selected set and those where it yields an empty result are filtered out while the rest remain in the set.

  • A RelativeLocationPath as specified above followed by ="value". The path is executed for each element in the selected set and those where the text result of it is equal to the given value remain in the set. Either ' or " may be used to delimit the value.

If xml_format is nonzero, the return value is an xml formatted string of all the matched nodes, in document order. Otherwise the return value is as follows:

Attributes are returned as one or more index/value pairs in a mapping. Other nodes are returned as the node objects. If the expression is on a form that can give at most one answer (i.e. there's a predicate with an integer index) then a single mapping or node is returned, or zero if there was no match. If the expression can give more answers then the return value is an array containing zero or more attribute mappings and/or nodes. The array follows document order.

Note

Not DOM compliant.


Method xml_format

string xml_format()

Description

Returns the formatted XML that corresponds to the node tree.

Note

Not DOM compliant.

Class Parser.XML.SloppyDOM.NodeWithChildElements

Description

Node with child elements.


Inherit NodeWithChildren

inherit NodeWithChildren : NodeWithChildren


Method get_descendant_elements

array(Element) get_descendant_elements()

Description

Returns all descendant elements in document order.

Note

Not DOM compliant.


Method get_descendant_nodes

array(Node) get_descendant_nodes()

Description

Returns all descendant nodes (except attribute nodes) in document order.

Note

Not DOM compliant.


Method get_elements

array(Element) get_elements(string name)

Description

Lightweight variant of get_elements_by_tag_name that returns a simple array instead of a fancy live NodeList.

Note

Not DOM compliant.

Module Parser.XML.Tree

Description

XML parser that generates node-trees.

Has some support for XML namespaces http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/ RFC 2518 section 23.4.

Note

This module defines two sets of node trees; the SimpleNode-based, and the Node-based. The main difference between the two, is that the Node-based trees have parent pointers, which tend to generate circular data references and thus garbage.

There are some more subtle differences between the two. Please read the documentation carefully.


Constant DTD_ATTLIST

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.DTD_ATTLIST


Constant DTD_ELEMENT

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.DTD_ELEMENT


Constant DTD_ENTITY

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.DTD_ENTITY


Constant DTD_NOTATION

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.DTD_NOTATION


Constant STOP_WALK

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.STOP_WALK


Constant XML_ATTR

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.XML_ATTR

Description

Attribute nodes are created on demand


Constant XML_COMMENT

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.XML_COMMENT


Constant XML_DOCTYPE

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.XML_DOCTYPE


Constant XML_ELEMENT

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.XML_ELEMENT


Constant XML_HEADER

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.XML_HEADER


Constant XML_NODE

constant Parser.XML.Tree.XML_NODE


Constant XML_PI

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.XML_PI


Constant XML_ROOT

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.XML_ROOT


Constant XML_TEXT

constant int Parser.XML.Tree.XML_TEXT


Method attribute_quote

string attribute_quote(string data, void|string ignore)

Description

Quotes the string given in data by escaping &, <, >, ' and ".


Method parse_file

Node parse_file(string path, bool|void parse_namespaces)

Description

Loads the XML file path, creates a node tree representation and returns the root node.


Method parse_input

RootNode parse_input(string data, void|bool no_fallback, void|bool force_lowercase, void|mapping(string:string) predefined_entities, void|bool parse_namespaces, ParseFlags|void flags)

Description

Takes an XML string and produces a node tree.

Note

flags is not used for PARSE_WANT_ERROR_CONTEXT, PARSE_FORCE_LOWERCASE or PARSE_ENABLE_NAMESPACES since they are covered by the separate flag arguments.


Method roxen_attribute_quote

string roxen_attribute_quote(string data, void|string ignore)

Description

Quotes strings just like attribute_quote, but entities in the form &foo.bar; will not be quoted.


Method roxen_text_quote

string roxen_text_quote(string data)

Description

Quotes strings just like text_quote, but entities in the form &foo.bar; will not be quoted.


Method simple_parse_file

SimpleRootNode simple_parse_file(string path, void|mapping predefined_entities, ParseFlags|void flags, string|void default_namespace)

Description

Loads the XML file path, creates a SimpleNode tree representation and returns the root node.


Method simple_parse_input

SimpleRootNode simple_parse_input(string data, void|mapping predefined_entities, ParseFlags|void flags, string|void default_namespace)

Description

Takes an XML string and produces a SimpleNode tree.


Method text_quote

string text_quote(string data)

Description

Quotes the string given in data by escaping &, < and >.

Enum Parser.XML.Tree.ParseFlags

Description

Flags used together with simple_parse_input() and simple_parse_file().


Constant PARSE_CHECK_ALL_ERRORS

constant Parser.XML.Tree.PARSE_CHECK_ALL_ERRORS


Constant PARSE_COMPAT_ALLOW_ERRORS_7_2

constant Parser.XML.Tree.PARSE_COMPAT_ALLOW_ERRORS_7_2


Constant PARSE_COMPAT_ALLOW_ERRORS_7_6

constant Parser.XML.Tree.PARSE_COMPAT_ALLOW_ERRORS_7_6


Constant PARSE_DISALLOW_RXML_ENTITIES

constant Parser.XML.Tree.PARSE_DISALLOW_RXML_ENTITIES


Constant PARSE_ENABLE_NAMESPACES

constant Parser.XML.Tree.PARSE_ENABLE_NAMESPACES


Constant PARSE_FORCE_LOWERCASE

constant Parser.XML.Tree.PARSE_FORCE_LOWERCASE


Constant PARSE_WANT_ERROR_CONTEXT

constant Parser.XML.Tree.PARSE_WANT_ERROR_CONTEXT

Class Parser.XML.Tree.AbstractNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(AbstractSimpleNode)
Description

Base class for nodes with parent pointers.


Inherit AbstractSimpleNode

inherit AbstractSimpleNode : AbstractSimpleNode


Method add_child

AbstractNode add_child(AbstractNode c)

Description

Adds the node c to the list of children of this node. The node is added before the node old, which is assumed to be an existing child of this node. The node is added first if old is zero.

Note

Returns the new child node, NOT the current node.

Returns

The new child node is returned.


Method add_child_after

AbstractNode add_child_after(AbstractNode c, AbstractNode old)

Description

Adds the node c to the list of children of this node. The node is added after the node old, which is assumed to be an existing child of this node. The node is added first if old is zero.

Returns

The current node.


Method add_child_before

AbstractNode add_child_before(AbstractNode c, AbstractNode old)

Description

Adds the node c to the list of children of this node. The node is added before the node old, which is assumed to be an existing child of this node. The node is added last if old is zero.

Returns

The current node.


Method clone

AbstractNode clone(void|int(-1..1) direction)

Description

Clones the node, optionally connected to parts of the tree. If direction is -1 the cloned nodes parent will be set, if direction is 1 the clone nodes childen will be set.


Method fix_tree

void fix_tree()

Description

Fix all parent pointers recursively in a tree that has been built with tmp_add_child.


Method get_ancestors

array(AbstractNode) get_ancestors(bool include_self)

Description

Returns a list of all ancestors, with the top node last. The list will start with this node if include_self is set.


Method get_following

array(AbstractNode) get_following()

Description

Returns all the nodes that follows after the current one.


Method get_following_siblings

array(AbstractNode) get_following_siblings()

Description

Returns all following siblings, i.e. all siblings present after this node in the parents children list.


Method get_parent

AbstractNode get_parent()

Description

Returns the parent node.


Method get_preceding

array(AbstractNode) get_preceding()

Description

Returns all preceding nodes, excluding this nodes ancestors.


Method get_preceding_siblings

array(AbstractNode) get_preceding_siblings()

Description

Returns all preceding siblings, i.e. all siblings present before this node in the parents children list.


Method get_root

AbstractNode get_root()

Description

Follows all parent pointers and returns the root node.


Method get_siblings

array(AbstractNode) get_siblings()

Description

Returns all siblings, including this node.


Method low_clone

optional AbstractNode low_clone()

Description

Returns an initialized copy of the node.

Note

The returned node has no children, and no parent.


Method remove_child

void remove_child(AbstractNode c)

Description

Removes all occurrences of the provided node from the called nodes list of children. The removed nodes parent reference is set to null.


Method remove_node

void remove_node()

Description

Removes this node from its parent. The parent reference is set to null.


Method replace_child

AbstractNode|zero replace_child(AbstractNode old, AbstractNode|array(AbstractNode) new)

Description

Replaces the first occurrence of the old node child with the new node child or children. All parent references are updated.

Note

The returned value is NOT the current node.

Returns

Returns the new child node.


Method replace_children

void replace_children(array(AbstractNode) children)

Description

Replaces the nodes children with the provided ones. All parent references are updated.


Method replace_node

AbstractNode|array(AbstractNode) replace_node(AbstractNode|array(AbstractNode) new)

Description

Replaces this node with the provided one.

Returns

Returns the new node.


Method set_parent

void set_parent(AbstractNode parent)

Description

Sets the parent node to parent.


Method tmp_add_child
Method tmp_add_child_before
Method tmp_add_child_after

AbstractNode tmp_add_child(AbstractNode c)
AbstractNode tmp_add_child_before(AbstractNode c, AbstractNode old)
AbstractNode tmp_add_child_after(AbstractNode c, AbstractNode old)

Description

Variants of add_child, add_child_before and add_child_after that doesn't set the parent pointer in the newly added children.

This is useful while building a node tree, to get efficient refcount garbage collection if the build stops abruptly. fix_tree has to be called on the root node when the building is done.

Class Parser.XML.Tree.AbstractSimpleNode

Description

Base class for nodes.


Method `[]

AbstractSimpleNode|zero res = Parser.XML.Tree.AbstractSimpleNode()[ pos ]

Description

The [] operator indexes among the node children, so node[0] returns the first node and node[-1] the last.

Note

The [] operator will select a node from all the nodes children, not just its element children.


Method add_child

AbstractSimpleNode add_child(AbstractSimpleNode c)

Description

Adds the given node to the list of children of this node. The new node is added last in the list.

Note

The return value differs from the one returned by Node()->add_child().

Returns

The current node.


Method add_child_after

AbstractSimpleNode add_child_after(AbstractSimpleNode c, AbstractSimpleNode old)

Description

Adds the node c to the list of children of this node. The node is added after the node old, which is assumed to be an existing child of this node. The node is added first if old is zero.

Returns

The current node.


Method add_child_before

AbstractSimpleNode add_child_before(AbstractSimpleNode c, AbstractSimpleNode old)

Description

Adds the node c to the list of children of this node. The node is added before the node old, which is assumed to be an existing child of this node. The node is added last if old is zero.

Returns

The current node.


Method clone

optional AbstractSimpleNode clone()

Description

Returns a clone of the sub-tree rooted in the node.


Method count_children

int count_children()

Description

Returns the number of children of the node.


Method get_children

array(AbstractSimpleNode) get_children()

Description

Returns all the nodes children.


Method get_descendants

array(AbstractSimpleNode) get_descendants(bool include_self)

Description

Returns a list of all descendants in document order. Includes this node if include_self is set.


Method get_last_child

AbstractSimpleNode|zero get_last_child()

Description

Returns the last child node or zero.


Method iterate_children

int iterate_children(function(AbstractSimpleNode, mixed ... :int|void) callback, mixed ... args)

Description

Iterates over the nodes children from left to right, calling the function callback for every node. If the callback function returns STOP_WALK the iteration is promptly aborted and STOP_WALK is returned.


Method low_clone

optional AbstractSimpleNode low_clone()

Description

Returns an initialized copy of the node.

Note

The returned node has no children.


Method node_factory

optional this_program node_factory(int type, string name, mapping attr, string text)

Description

Optional factory for creating contained nodes.

Parameter type

Type of node to create. One of:

XML_TEXT

XML text. text contains a string with the text.

XML_COMMENT

XML comment. text contains a string with the comment text.

XML_HEADER

<?xml?>-header attr contains a mapping with the attributes.

XML_PI

XML processing instruction. name contains the name of the processing instruction and text the remainder.

XML_ELEMENT

XML element tag. name contains the name of the tag and attr the attributes.

XML_DOCTYPE

DTD information.

DTD_ENTITY
DTD_ELEMENT
DTD_ATTLIST
DTD_NOTATION
Parameter name

Name of the tag if applicable.

Parameter attr

Attributes for the tag if applicable.

Parameter text

Contained text of the tab if any.

This function is called during parsning to create the various XML nodes.

Define this function to provide application-specific XML nodes.

Returns

Returns one of

AbstractSimpleNode

A node object representing the XML tag.

int(0)

0 (zero) if the subtree rooted here should be cut.

zero

UNDEFINED to fall back to the next level of parser (ie behave as if this function does not exist).

Note

This function is only relevant for XML_ELEMENT nodes.

Note

This function is not available in Pike 7.6 and earlier.

Note

In Pike 8.0 and earlier this function was only called in root nodes.


Method remove_child

void remove_child(AbstractSimpleNode c)

Description

Removes all occurrences of the provided node from the list of children of this node.


Method replace_child

AbstractSimpleNode|zero replace_child(AbstractSimpleNode old, AbstractSimpleNode|array(AbstractSimpleNode) new)

Description

Replaces the first occurrence of the old node child with the new node child or children.

Note

The return value differs from the one returned by Node()->replace_child().

Returns

Returns the current node on success, and 0 (zero) if the node old wasn't found.


Method replace_children

void replace_children(array(AbstractSimpleNode) children)

Description

Replaces the nodes children with the provided ones.


Method walk_inorder

int walk_inorder(function(AbstractSimpleNode, mixed ... :int|void) callback, mixed ... args)

Description

Traverse the node subtree in inorder, left subtree first, then root node, and finally the remaining subtrees, calling the function callback for every node. If the function callback returns STOP_WALK the traverse is promptly aborted and STOP_WALK is returned.


Method walk_postorder

int walk_postorder(function(AbstractSimpleNode, mixed ... :int|void) callback, mixed ... args)

Description

Traverse the node subtree in postorder, first subtrees from left to right, then the root node, calling the function callback for every node. If the function callback returns STOP_WALK the traverse is promptly aborted and STOP_WALK is returned.


Method walk_preorder

int walk_preorder(function(AbstractSimpleNode, mixed ... :int|void) callback, mixed ... args)

Description

Traverse the node subtree in preorder, root node first, then subtrees from left to right, calling the callback function for every node. If the callback function returns STOP_WALK the traverse is promptly aborted and STOP_WALK is returned.


Method walk_preorder_2

int walk_preorder_2(function(AbstractSimpleNode, mixed ... :int|void) cb_1, function(AbstractSimpleNode, mixed ... :int|void) cb_2, mixed ... args)

Description

Traverse the node subtree in preorder, root node first, then subtrees from left to right. For each node we call cb_1 before iterating through children, and then cb_2 (which always gets called even if the walk is aborted earlier). If the callback function returns STOP_WALK the traverse decend is aborted and STOP_WALK is returned once all waiting cb_2 functions have been called.


Method zap_tree

void zap_tree()

Description

Destruct the tree recursively. When the inheriting AbstractNode or Node is used, which have parent pointers, this function should be called for every tree that no longer is in use to avoid frequent garbage collector runs.

Class Parser.XML.Tree.AttributeNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(Node)

Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.AttributeNode Parser.XML.Tree.AttributeNode(string name, string value)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.CommentNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(Node)

Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.CommentNode Parser.XML.Tree.CommentNode(string text)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.DTDAttlistNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(Node)

Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.DTDAttlistNode Parser.XML.Tree.DTDAttlistNode(string name, mapping(string:string) attrs, string contents)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.DTDElementNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(Node)
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(DTDElementHelper)

Inherit DTDElementHelper

inherit DTDElementHelper : DTDElementHelper


Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.DTDElementNode Parser.XML.Tree.DTDElementNode(string name, array expression)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.DTDEntityNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(Node)

Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.DTDEntityNode Parser.XML.Tree.DTDEntityNode(string name, mapping(string:string) attrs, string contents)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.DTDNotationNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(Node)

Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.DTDNotationNode Parser.XML.Tree.DTDNotationNode(string name, mapping(string:string) attrs, string contents)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.DoctypeNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(Node)

Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.DoctypeNode Parser.XML.Tree.DoctypeNode(string name, mapping(string:string) attrs, array|zero contents)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.ElementNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(Node)

Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.ElementNode Parser.XML.Tree.ElementNode(string name, mapping(string:string) attrs)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.HeaderNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(Node)

Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.HeaderNode Parser.XML.Tree.HeaderNode(mapping(string:string) attrs)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.Node

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(AbstractNode)
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(VirtualNode)
Description

XML node with parent pointers.


Inherit AbstractNode

inherit AbstractNode : AbstractNode


Inherit VirtualNode

inherit VirtualNode : VirtualNode


Method get_attr_name

string get_attr_name()

Description

Returns the name of the attribute node.


Method get_attribute_nodes

array(Node) get_attribute_nodes()

Description

Creates and returns an array of new nodes; they will not be added as proper children to the parent node, but the parent link in the nodes are set so that upwards traversal is made possible.


Method get_tag_name

string get_tag_name()

Description

Returns the name of the element node, or the nearest element above if an attribute node.

Class Parser.XML.Tree.PINode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(Node)

Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.PINode Parser.XML.Tree.PINode(string name, mapping(string:string) attrs, string contents)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.RootNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(Node)
Description

The root node of an XML-tree consisting of Nodes.


Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Inherit XMLParser

inherit XMLParser : XMLParser


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.RootNode Parser.XML.Tree.RootNode(string|void data, mapping|void predefined_entities, ParseFlags|void flags)


Method flush_node_id_cache

void flush_node_id_cache()

Description

Clears the node id cache built and used by get_element_by_id.


Method get_element_by_id

ElementNode get_element_by_id(string id, int|void force)

Description

Find the element with the specified id.

Parameter id

The XML id of the node to search for.

Parameter force

Force a regeneration of the id lookup cache. Needed the first time after the node tree has been modified by adding or removing element nodes, or by changing the id attribute of an element node.

Returns

Returns the element node with the specified id if any. Returns UNDEFINED otherwise.

See also

flush_node_id_cache

Class Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleCommentNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(SimpleNode)

Inherit SimpleNode

inherit SimpleNode : SimpleNode


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleCommentNode Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleCommentNode(string comment)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDTDAttlistNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(SimpleNode)

Inherit SimpleNode

inherit SimpleNode : SimpleNode


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDTDAttlistNode Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDTDAttlistNode(string name, mapping(string:string) attrs, string contents)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDTDElementNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(SimpleNode)
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(DTDElementHelper)

Inherit DTDElementHelper

inherit DTDElementHelper : DTDElementHelper


Inherit SimpleNode

inherit SimpleNode : SimpleNode


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDTDElementNode Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDTDElementNode(string name, array expression)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDTDEntityNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(SimpleNode)

Inherit SimpleNode

inherit SimpleNode : SimpleNode


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDTDEntityNode Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDTDEntityNode(string name, mapping(string:string) attrs, string contents)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDTDNotationNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(SimpleNode)

Inherit SimpleNode

inherit SimpleNode : SimpleNode


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDTDNotationNode Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDTDNotationNode(string name, mapping(string:string) attrs, string contents)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDoctypeNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(SimpleNode)

Inherit SimpleNode

inherit SimpleNode : SimpleNode


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDoctypeNode Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleDoctypeNode(string name, mapping(string:string) attrs, array|zero contents)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleElementNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(SimpleNode)

Inherit SimpleNode

inherit SimpleNode : SimpleNode


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleElementNode Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleElementNode(string name, mapping(string:string) attrs)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleHeaderNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(SimpleNode)

Inherit SimpleNode

inherit SimpleNode : SimpleNode


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleHeaderNode Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleHeaderNode(mapping(string:string) attrs)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(AbstractSimpleNode)
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(VirtualNode)
Description

XML node without parent pointers and attribute nodes.


Inherit AbstractSimpleNode

inherit AbstractSimpleNode : AbstractSimpleNode


Inherit VirtualNode

inherit VirtualNode : VirtualNode

Class Parser.XML.Tree.SimplePINode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(SimpleNode)

Inherit SimpleNode

inherit SimpleNode : SimpleNode


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.SimplePINode Parser.XML.Tree.SimplePINode(string name, mapping(string:string) attrs, string contents)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleRootNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(SimpleNode)
Description

The root node of an XML-tree consisting of SimpleNodes.


Inherit SimpleNode

inherit SimpleNode : SimpleNode


Inherit XMLParser

inherit XMLParser : XMLParser


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleRootNode Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleRootNode(string|void data, mapping|void predefined_entities, ParseFlags|void flags, string|void default_namespace)


Method flush_node_id_cache

void flush_node_id_cache()

Description

Clears the node id cache built and used by get_element_by_id.


Method get_element_by_id

SimpleElementNode get_element_by_id(string id, int|void force)

Description

Find the element with the specified id.

Parameter id

The XML id of the node to search for.

Parameter force

Force a regeneration of the id lookup cache. Needed the first time after the node tree has been modified by adding or removing element nodes, or by changing the id attribute of an element node.

Returns

Returns the element node with the specified id if any. Returns UNDEFINED otherwise.

See also

flush_node_id_cache

Class Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleTextNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(SimpleNode)

Inherit SimpleNode

inherit SimpleNode : SimpleNode


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleTextNode Parser.XML.Tree.SimpleTextNode(string text)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.TextNode

Annotations
@Pike.Annotations.Implements(Node)

Inherit Node

inherit Node : Node


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.TextNode Parser.XML.Tree.TextNode(string text)

Class Parser.XML.Tree.VirtualNode

Description

Node in XML tree


Method cast

(int)Parser.XML.Tree.VirtualNode()
(float)Parser.XML.Tree.VirtualNode()
(string)Parser.XML.Tree.VirtualNode()
(array)Parser.XML.Tree.VirtualNode()
(mapping)Parser.XML.Tree.VirtualNode()
(multiset)Parser.XML.Tree.VirtualNode()

Description

It is possible to cast a node to a string, which will return render_xml() for that node.


Method create

Parser.XML.Tree.VirtualNode Parser.XML.Tree.VirtualNode(int type, string|zero name, mapping|zero attr, string|zero text)


Method get_any_name

string get_any_name()

Description

Return name of tag or name of attribute node.


Method get_attributes

mapping(string:string) get_attributes()

Description

Returns this nodes attributes, which can be altered destructivly to alter the nodes attributes.

See also

replace_attributes()


Method get_doc_order

int get_doc_order()


Method get_elements

array(AbstractNode) get_elements(string|void name, bool|void full)

Description

Returns all element children to this node.

Parameter name

If provided, only elements with that name is returned.

Parameter full

If specified, name matching will be done against the full name.

Returns

Returns an array with matching nodes.


Method get_first_element

AbstractNode|zero get_first_element(string|void name, bool|void full)

Description

Returns the first element child to this node.

Parameter name

If provided, the first element child with that name is returned.

Parameter full

If specified, name matching will be done against the full name.

Returns

Returns the first matching node, and 0 if no such node was found.


Method get_full_name

string get_full_name()

Description

Return fully qualified name of the element node.


Method get_namespace

string get_namespace()

Description

Return the (resolved) namespace for this node.


Method get_node_type

int get_node_type()

Description

Returns the node type. See defined node type constants.


Method get_short_attributes

mapping get_short_attributes()

Description

Returns this nodes name-space adjusted attributes.

Note

set_short_namespaces() or set_short_attributes() must have been called before calling this function.


Method get_tag_name

string get_tag_name()

Description

Returns the name of the element node, or the nearest element above if an attribute node.


Method get_text

string|zero get_text()

Description

Returns text content in node.


Method render_to_file

void render_to_file(Stdio.File f, void|bool preserve_roxen_entities)

Description

Creates an XML representation for the node sub tree and streams the output to the file f. If the flag preserve_roxen_entities is set, entities on the form &foo.bar; will not be escaped.


Method render_xml

string render_xml(void|bool preserve_roxen_entities, void|mapping(string:string) namespace_lookup, void|string encoding, void|int(2bit) quote_mode)

Description

Creates an XML representation of the node sub tree. If the flag preserve_roxen_entities is set, entities on the form &foo.bar; will not be escaped.

Parameter namespace_lookup

Mapping from namespace prefix to namespace symbol prefix.

Parameter encoding

Force a specific output character encoding. By default the encoding set in the document XML processing instruction will be used, with UTF-8 as a fallback. Setting this value will change the XML processing instruction, if present.

Parameter quote_mode
0

Defaults to single quote, but use double quote if it avoids escaping.

1

Defaults to double quote, but use single quote if it avoids escaping.

2

Use only single quote.

3

Use only double quote.


Method replace_attributes

void replace_attributes(mapping(string:string) attrs)

Description

Replace the entire set of attributes.

See also

get_attributes()


Method set_doc_order

void set_doc_order(int o)


Method set_short_attributes

void set_short_attributes(mapping short_attrs)

Description

Sets this nodes name-space adjusted attributes.


Method set_tag_name

void set_tag_name(string name)

Description

Change the tag name destructively. Can only be used on element and processing-instruction nodes.


Method set_text

string set_text(string txt)

Description

Change the text content destructively.


Method value_of_node

string value_of_node()

Description

If the node is an attribute node or a text node, its value is returned. Otherwise the child text nodes are concatenated and returned.

Class Parser.XML.Tree.XMLNSParser

Description

Namespace aware parser.


Method Enter

mapping(string:string) Enter(mapping(string:string) attrs)

Description

Check attrs for namespaces.

Returns

Returns the namespace expanded version of attrs.

Class Parser.XML.Tree.XMLParser

Description

Mixin for parsing XML.

Uses Parser.XML.Simple to perform the actual parsing.


Method node_factory

protected AbstractSimpleNode node_factory(int type, string name, mapping attr, string text)

Description

Factory for creating nodes.

Parameter type

Type of node to create. One of:

XML_TEXT

XML text. text contains a string with the text.

XML_COMMENT

XML comment. text contains a string with the comment text.

XML_HEADER

<?xml?>-header attr contains a mapping with the attributes.

XML_PI

XML processing instruction. name contains the name of the processing instruction and text the remainder.

XML_ELEMENT

XML element tag. name contains the name of the tag and attr the attributes.

XML_DOCTYPE

DTD information.

DTD_ENTITY
DTD_ELEMENT
DTD_ATTLIST
DTD_NOTATION
Parameter name

Name of the tag if applicable.

Parameter attr

Attributes for the tag if applicable.

Parameter text

Contained text of the tab if any.

This function is called during parsning to create the various XML nodes.

Overload this function to provide application-specific XML nodes.

Returns

Returns a node object representing the XML tag, or 0 (zero) if the subtree rooted in the tag should be cut.

Note

This function is not available in Pike 7.6 and earlier.

See also

node_factory_dispatch(), AbstractSimpleNode()->node_factory()


Method node_factory_dispatch

protected AbstractSimpleNode node_factory_dispatch(int type, string name, mapping|zero attr, string text)

Description

Dispatcher of node_factory().

This function finds a suitable node_factory() given the current parser context to call with the same arguments.

Class Parser.HTML

Description

This is a simple parser for SGML structured markups. It's not really HTML, but it's useful for that purpose.

The simple way to use it is to give it some information about available tags and containers, and what callbacks those are to call.

The object is easily reused, by calling the clone() function.

See also

add_tag, add_container, finish


Method _inspect

mapping _inspect()

Description

This is a low-level way of debugging a parser. This gives a mapping of the internal state of the Parser.HTML object.

The format and contents of this mapping may change without further notice.


Method _set_tag_callback
Method _set_entity_callback
Method _set_data_callback

Parser.HTML _set_tag_callback(function(:void)|string|array to_call)
Parser.HTML _set_entity_callback(function(:void)|string|array to_call)
Parser.HTML _set_data_callback(function(:void)|string|array to_call)

Description

These functions set up the parser object to call the given callbacks upon tags, entities and/or data. The callbacks will only be called if there isn't another tag/container/entity handler for these.

The callback function will be called with the parser object as first argument, and the active string as second. Note that no parsing of the contents has been done. Both endtags and normal tags are called; there is no container parsing.

The return values from the callbacks are handled in the same way as the return values from callbacks registered with add_tag and similar functions.

The data callback will be called as seldom as possible with the longest possible string, as long as it doesn't get called out of order with any other callback. It will never be called with a zero length string.

If a string or array is given instead of a function, it will act as the return value from the function. Arrays or empty strings is probably preferable to avoid recursion.

Returns

Returns the object being called.


Method add_tag
Method add_container
Method add_entity
Method add_quote_tag
Method add_tags
Method add_containers
Method add_entities

Parser.HTML add_tag(string name, mixed to_do)
Parser.HTML add_container(string name, mixed to_do)
Parser.HTML add_entity(string entity, mixed to_do)
Parser.HTML add_quote_tag(string name, mixed to_do, string end)
Parser.HTML add_tags(mapping(string:mixed) tags)
Parser.HTML add_containers(mapping(string:mixed) containers)
Parser.HTML add_entities(mapping(string:mixed) entities)

Description

Registers the actions to take when parsing various things. Tags, containers, entities are as usual. add_quote_tag() adds a special kind of tag that reads any data until the next occurrence of the end string immediately before a tag end.

Parameter to_do

This argument can be any of the following.

function(:void)

The function will be called as a callback function. It will get the following arguments, depending on the type of callback.

 mixed tag_callback(Parser.HTML parser,mapping args,mixed ... extra)
 mixed container_callback(Parser.HTML parser,mapping args,string content,mixed ... extra)
 mixed entity_callback(Parser.HTML parser,mixed ... extra)
 mixed quote_tag_callback(Parser.HTML parser,string content,mixed ... extra)
	

string

This tag/container/entity is then replaced by the string. The string is normally not reparsed, i.e. it's equivalent to writing a function that returns the string in an array (but a lot faster). If reparse_strings is set the string will be reparsed, though.

array

The first element is a function as above. It will receive the rest of the array as extra arguments. If extra arguments are given by set_extra(), they will appear after the ones in this array.

int(0..)

If there is a tag/container/entity with the given name in the parser, it's removed.

The callback function can return:

string

This string will be pushed on the parser stack and be parsed. Be careful not to return anything in this way that could lead to a infinite recursion.

array

The element(s) of the array is the result of the function. This will not be parsed. This is useful for avoiding infinite recursion. The array can be of any size, this means the empty array is the most effective to return if you don't care about the result. If the parser is operating in mixed_mode, the array can contain anything. Otherwise only strings are allowed.

int(0)

This means "don't do anything", ie the item that generated the callback is left as it is, and the parser continues.

int(1)

Reparse the last item again. This is useful to parse a tag as a container, or vice versa: just add or remove callbacks for the tag and return this to jump to the right callback.

Returns

Returns the object being called.

See also

tags, containers, entities


Method at
Method at_line
Method at_char
Method at_column

array(int) at()
int at_line()
int at_char()
int at_column()

Description

Returns the current position. Characters and columns count from 0, lines count from 1.

at() gives an array with the following layout.

Array
int 0

Line.

int 1

Character.

int 2

Column.


Method case_insensitive_tag

int case_insensitive_tag(void|int value)

Description

All tags and containers are matched case insensitively, and argument names are converted to lowercase. Tags added with add_quote_tag() are not affected, though. Switching to case insensitive mode and back won't preserve the case of registered tags and containers.


Method clear_tags
Method clear_containers
Method clear_entities
Method clear_quote_tags

Parser.HTML clear_tags()
Parser.HTML clear_containers()
Parser.HTML clear_entities()
Parser.HTML clear_quote_tags()

Description

Removes all registered definitions in the different categories.

Returns

Returns the object being called.

See also

add_tag, add_tags, add_container, add_containers, add_entity, add_entities


Method clone

Parser.HTML clone(mixed ... args)

Description

Clones the Parser.HTML object. A new object of the same class is created, filled with the parse setup from the old object.

This is the simpliest way of flushing a parse feed/output.

The arguments to clone is sent to the new object, simplifying work for custom classes that inherits Parser.HTML.

Returns

Returns the new object.

Note

create is called _before_ the setup is copied.


Method tags
Method containers
Method entities

mapping(string:mixed) tags()
mapping(string:mixed) containers()
mapping(string:mixed) entities()

Description

Returns the current callback settings. When matching is done case insensitively, all names will be returned in lowercase.

Implementation note: These run in constant time since they return copy-on-write mappings.

See also

add_tag, add_tags, add_container, add_containers, add_entity, add_entities


Method context

string context()

Description

Returns the current output context as a string.

"data"

In top level data. This is always returned when called from tag or container callbacks.

"arg"

In an unquoted argument.

"splice_arg"

In a splice argument.

The return value can also be a single character string, in which case the context is a quoted argument. The string contains the starting quote character.

This function is typically only useful in entity callbacks, which can be called both from text and argument values of different sorts.

See also

splice_arg


Method current

string current()

Description

Gives the current range of data, ie the whole tag/entity/etc being parsed in the current callback. Returns zero if there's no current range, i.e. when the function is not called in a callback.


Method feed

Parser.HTML feed()
Parser.HTML feed(string s, void|int do_parse)

Description

Feed new data to the Parser.HTML object. This will start a scan and may result in callbacks. Note that it's possible that all data fed isn't processed - to do that, call finish().

If the function is called without arguments, no data is fed, but the parser is run. If the string argument is followed by a 0, ->feed(s,0);, the string is fed, but the parser isn't run.

Returns

Returns the object being called.

See also

finish, read, feed_insert


Method feed_insert

Parser.HTML feed_insert(string s)

Description

This pushes a string on the parser stack.

Returns

Returns the object being called.

Note

Don't use!


Method finish

Parser.HTML finish()
Parser.HTML finish(string s)

Description

Finish a parser pass. A string may be sent here, similar to feed().

Returns

Returns the object being called.


Method get_extra

array get_extra()

Description

Gets the extra arguments set by set_extra().

Returns

Returns the object being called.


Method ignore_comments

int ignore_comments(void|int value)


Method ignore_tags

int ignore_tags(void|int value)

Description

Do not look for tags at all. Normally tags are matched even when there's no callbacks for them at all. When this is set, the tag delimiters '<' and '>' will be treated as any normal character.


Method ignore_unknown

int ignore_unknown(void|int value)

Description

Treat unknown tags and entities as text data, continuing parsing for tags and entities inside them.

Note

When functions are specified with _set_tag_callback() or _set_entity_callback(), all tags or entities, respectively, are considered known. However, if one of those functions return 1 and ignore_unknown is set, they are treated as text data instead of making another call to the same function again.


Method lazy_argument_end

int lazy_argument_end(void|int value)

Description

A '>' in a tag argument closes both the argument and the tag, even if the argument is quoted.


Method lazy_entity_end

int lazy_entity_end(void|int value)

Description

Normally, the parser search indefinitely for the entity end character (i.e. ';'). When this flag is set, the characters '&', '<', '>', '"', ''', and any whitespace breaks the search for the entity end, and the entity text is then ignored, i.e. treated as data.


Method match_tag

int match_tag(void|int value)

Description

Unquoted nested tag starters and enders will be balanced when parsing tags. This is the default.


Method max_parse_depth

int max_parse_depth(void|int value)

Description

Maximum recursion depth during parsing. Recursion occurs when a tag/container/entity/quote tag callback function returns a string to be reparsed. The default value is 10.


Method mixed_mode

int mixed_mode(void|int value)

Description

Allow callbacks to return arbitrary data in the arrays, which will be concatenated in the output.


Method nestling_entity_end

int nestling_entity_end(void|int value)


Method parse_tag_args

mapping parse_tag_args(string tag)

Description

Parses the tag arguments from a tag string without the name and surrounding brackets, i.e. a string on the form "some='tag'  args".

Returns

Returns a mapping containing the tag arguments.

See also

tag_args


Method parse_tag_name

string parse_tag_name(string tag)

Description

Parses the tag name from a tag string without the surrounding brackets, i.e. a string on the form "tagname some='tag'  args".

Returns

Returns the tag name or an empty string if none.


Method quote_stapling

int quote_stapling(int|void enable)

Description

Enable old-style attribute quoting by stapling.

Parameter enable

Enable/disable the mode. Defaults to keeping the old setting.

Returns

Returns the prior setting.

Note

Any use of this mode is discouraged, and is only provided for compatibility with versions of Pike prior to 8.0.

Note

Note also that this mode will output runtime warnings whenever the mode has had an effect on the parsing.


Method quote_tags

mapping(string:array(mixed|string)) quote_tags()

Description

Returns the current callback settings. The values are arrays ({callback, end_quote}). When matching is done case insensitively, all names will be returned in lowercase.

Implementation note: quote_tags() allocates a new mapping for every call and thus, unlike e.g. tags() runs in linear time.

See also

add_quote_tag


Method read

string|array(mixed) read()
string|array(mixed) read(int max_elems)

Description

Read parsed data from the parser object.

Returns

Returns a string of parsed data if the parser isn't in mixed_mode, an array of arbitrary data otherwise.


Method reparse_strings

int reparse_strings(void|int value)

Description

When a plain string is used as a tag/container/entity/quote tag callback, it's not reparsed if this flag is unset. Setting it causes all such strings to be reparsed.


Method set_extra

Parser.HTML set_extra(mixed ... args)

Description

Sets the extra arguments passed to all tag, container and entity callbacks.

Returns

Returns the object being called.


Method splice_arg

string splice_arg(void|string name)

Description

If given a string, it sets the splice argument name to it. It returns the old splice argument name.

If a splice argument name is set, it's parsed in all tags, both those with callbacks and those without. Wherever it occurs, its value (after being parsed for entities in the normal way) is inserted directly into the tag. E.g:

<foo arg1="val 1" splice="arg2='val 2' arg3" arg4>

becomes

<foo arg1="val 1" arg2='val 2' arg3 arg4>

if "splice" is set as the splice argument name.


Method tag

array tag(void|mixed default_value)

Description

Returns the equivalent of the following calls.

Array
string 0

tag_name()

mapping(string:mixed) 1

tag_args(default_value)

string 2

tag_content()


Method tag_args

mapping(string:mixed) tag_args(void|mixed default_value)

Description

Gives the arguments of the current tag, parsed to a convenient mapping consisting of key:value pairs. If the current thing isn't a tag, it gives zero. default_value is used for arguments which have no value in the tag. If default_value isn't given, the value is set to the same string as the key.


Method tag_content

string tag_content()

Description

Gives the content of the current tag, if it's a container or quote tag. Otherwise returns zero.


Method tag_name

string|zero tag_name()

Description

Gives the name of the current tag, or zero. If used from an entity callback, it gives the string inside the entity.


Method write_out

Parser.HTML write_out(mixed ... args)

Description

Send data to the output stream, i.e. it won't be parsed and it won't be sent to the data callback, if any.

Any data is allowed when the parser is running in mixed_mode. Only strings are allowed otherwise.

Returns

Returns the object being called.


Method ws_before_tag_name

int ws_before_tag_name(void|int value)

Description

Allow whitespace between the tag start character and the tag name.


Method xml_tag_syntax

int xml_tag_syntax(void|int value)

Description

Whether or not to use XML syntax to tell empty tags and container tags apart.

0

Use HTML syntax only. If there's a '/' last in a tag, it's just treated as any other argument.

1

Use HTML syntax, but ignore a '/' if it comes last in a tag. This is the default.

2

Use XML syntax, but when a tag that does not end with '/>' is found which only got a non-container tag callback, treat it as a non-container (i.e. don't start to seek for the container end).

3

Use XML syntax only. If a tag got both container and non-container callbacks, the non-container callback is called when the empty element form (i.e. the one ending with '/>') is used, and the container callback otherwise. If only a container callback exists, it gets the empty string as content when there's none to be parsed. If only a non-container callback exists, it will be called (without the content argument) for both kinds of tags.

Module Parser


Method decode_numeric_xml_entity

string|zero decode_numeric_xml_entity(string chref)

Description

Decodes the numeric XML entity chref, e.g. "&#x34;" and returns the character as a string. chref is the name part of the entity, i.e. without the leading '&' and trailing ';'. Returns zero if chref isn't on a recognized form or if the character number is too large to be represented in a string.


Method encode_html_entities

string encode_html_entities(string raw)

Description

Encode characters to HTML entities, e.g. turning "<" into "&lt;".

The characters that will be encoded are characters <= 32, "\"&'<>" and characters >= 127 and <= 160 and characters >= 255.


Method get_xml_parser

HTML get_xml_parser()

Description

Returns a Parser.HTML initialized for parsing XML. It has all the flags set properly for XML syntax and callbacks to ignore comments, CDATA blocks and unknown PI tags, but it has no registered tags and doesn't decode any entities.


Method html_entity_parser
Method parse_html_entities

HTML html_entity_parser()
string parse_html_entities(string in)
HTML html_entity_parser(int noerror)
string parse_html_entities(string in, int noerror)

Description

Parse any HTML entities in the string to unicode characters. Either return a complete parser (to build on or use) or parse a string. Throw an error if there is an unrecognized entity in the string if noerror is not set.

Note

Currently using XHTML 1.0 tables.

Class Parser.CSV

Description

This is a parser for line oriented data that is either comma, semi-colon or tab separated. It extends the functionality of the Parser.Tabular with some specific functionality related to a header and record oriented parsing of huge datasets.

We document only the differences with the basic Parser.Tabular.

See also

Parser.Tabular


Inherit Tabular

inherit Parser.Tabular : Tabular


Method fetchrecord

mapping fetchrecord(void|array|mapping format)

Description

This function consumes a single record from the input. To be used in conjunction with parsehead().

Returns

It returns the mapping describing the record.

See also

parsehead(), fetch()


Method parsehead

int parsehead(void|string delimiters, void|string|object matchfieldname)

Description

This function consumes the header-line preceding a typical comma, semicolon or tab separated value list and autocompiles a format description from that. After this function has successfully parsed a header-line, you can proceed with either fetchrecord() or fetch() to get the remaining records.

Parameter delimiters

Explicitly specify a string containing all the characters that should be considered field delimiters. If not specified or empty, the function will try to autodetect the single delimiter in use.

Parameter matchfieldname

A string containing a regular expression, using Regexp.SimpleRegexp syntax, or an object providing a Regexp.SimpleRegexp.match() single string argument compatible method, that must match all the individual fieldnames before the header will be considered valid.

Returns

It returns true if a CSV head has successfully been parsed.

See also

fetchrecord(), fetch(), compile()

Class Parser.RCS

Description

A RCS file parser that eats a RCS *,v file and presents nice pike data structures of its contents.


Inherit _RCS

inherit Parser._RCS : _RCS


Constant max_revisions_supported

constant int Parser.RCS.max_revisions_supported

Description

Feature detection constant for the max_revisions argument to create(), parse() and parse_delta_sections().


Variable access

array(string) Parser.RCS.access

Description

The usernames listed in the ACCESS section of the RCS file.


Variable branch

string|int(0) Parser.RCS.branch

Description

The default branch (or revision), if present, 0 otherwise.


Variable branches

mapping(string:string) Parser.RCS.branches

Description

Maps branch numbers (indices) to branch names (values).

Note

The indices are short branch revision numbers (ie "1.1.2" and not "1.1.0.2").


Variable comment

string|int(0) Parser.RCS.comment

Description

The RCS file comment if present, 0 otherwise.


Variable description

string Parser.RCS.description

Description

The RCS file description.


Variable expand

string Parser.RCS.expand

Description

The keyword expansion options (as named by RCS) if present, 0 otherwise.


Variable head

string Parser.RCS.head

Description

Version number of the head version of the file.


Variable locks

mapping(string:string) Parser.RCS.locks

Description

Maps from username to revision for users that have acquired locks on this file.


Variable rcs_file_name

string Parser.RCS.rcs_file_name

Description

The filename of the RCS file as sent to create().


Variable revisions

mapping(string:Revision) Parser.RCS.revisions

Description

Data for all revisions of the file. The indices of the mapping are the revision numbers, whereas the values are the data from the corresponding revision.


Variable strict_locks

bool Parser.RCS.strict_locks

Description

1 if strict locking is set, 0 otherwise.


Variable tags

mapping(string:string) Parser.RCS.tags

Description

Maps tag names (indices) to tagged revision numbers (values).

Note

This mapping typically contains raw revision numbers for branches (ie "1.1.0.2" and not "1.1.2").


Variable trunk

array(Revision) Parser.RCS.trunk

Description

Data for all revisions on the trunk, sorted in the same order as the RCS file stored them - ie descending, most recent first, I'd assume (rcsfile(5), of course, fails to state such irrelevant information).


Method create

Parser.RCS Parser.RCS(string|void file_name, string|int(0)|void file_contents, void|int max_revisions)

Description

Initializes the RCS object.

Parameter file_name

The path to the raw RCS file (includes trailing ",v"). Used mainly for error reporting (truncated RCS file or similar). Stored in rcs_file_name.

Parameter file_contents

If a string is provided, that string will be parsed to initialize the RCS object. If a zero (0) is sent, no initialization will be performed at all. If no value is given at all, but file_name was provided, that file will be loaded and parsed for object initialization.

Parameter max_revisions

Maximum number of revisions to process. If unset, all revisions will be processed.


Method expand_keywords_for_revision

string|zero expand_keywords_for_revision(string|Revision rev, string|void text, int|void expansion_mode)

Description

Expand keywords and return the resulting text according to the expansion rules set for the file.

Parameter rev

The revision to apply the expansion for.

Parameter text

If supplied, substitute keywords for that text instead using values that would apply for the given revision. Otherwise, revision rev is used.

Parameter expansion_mode

Expansion mode

1

Perform expansion even if the file was checked in as binary.

0

Perform expansion only if the file was checked in as non-binary with expansion enabled.

-1

Perform contraction if the file was checked in as non-binary.

Note

The Log keyword (which lacks sane quoting rules) is not expanded. Keyword expansion rules set in CVSROOT/cvswrappers are ignored. Only implements the -kkv, -ko and -kb expansion modes.

Note

Does not perform any line-ending conversion.

See also

get_contents_for_revision


Method get_contents_for_revision

string|zero get_contents_for_revision(string|Revision rev, void|bool dont_cache_data)

Description

Returns the file contents from the revision rev, without performing any keyword expansion. If dont_cache_data is set we will not keep intermediate revisions in memory unless they already existed. This will cut down memory use at the expense of slow access to older revisions.

See also

expand_keywords_for_revision()


Method parse

this_program parse(array raw, void|function(string:void) progress_callback, void|int max_revisions)

Description

Parse the RCS file raw and initialize all members of this object fully initialized.

Parameter raw

The unprocessed RCS file.

Parameter progress_callback

Passed on to parse_deltatext_sections.

Parameter max_revisions

Maximum number of revisions to process. If unset, all revisions will be processed.

Returns

The fully initialized object (only returned for API convenience; the object itself is destructively modified to match the data extracted from raw)

See also

parse_admin_section, parse_delta_sections, parse_deltatext_sections, create


Method parse_admin_section

array parse_admin_section(string|array raw)

Description

Lower-level API function for parsing only the admin section (the initial chunk of an RCS file, see manpage rcsfile(5)) of an RCS file. After running parse_admin_section, the RCS object will be initialized with the values for head, branch, access, branches, tokenize, tags, locks, strict_locks, comment and expand.

Parameter raw

The tokenized RCS file, or the raw RCS-file data.

Returns

The rest of the RCS file, admin section removed.

See also

parse_delta_sections, parse_deltatext_sections, parse, create

FIXME

Does not handle rcsfile(5) newphrase skipping.


Method parse_delta_sections

array parse_delta_sections(array raw, void|int max_revisions)

Description

Lower-level API function for parsing only the delta sections (the second chunk of an RCS file, see manpage rcsfile(5)) of an RCS file. After running parse_delta_sections, the RCS object will be initialized with the value of description and populated revisions mapping and trunk array. Their Revision members are however only populated with the members Revision->revision, Revision->branch, Revision->time, Revision->author, Revision->state, Revision->branches, Revision->rcs_next, Revision->ancestor and Revision->next.

Parameter raw

The tokenized RCS file, with admin section removed. (See parse_admin_section.)

Parameter max_revisions

Maximum number of revisions to process. If unset, all revisions will be processed.

Returns

The rest of the RCS file, delta sections removed.

See also

parse_admin_section, tokenize, parse_deltatext_sections, parse, create

FIXME

Does not handle rcsfile(5) newphrase skipping.


Method parse_deltatext_sections

void parse_deltatext_sections(array raw, void|function(string:void) progress_callback, array|void callback_args)

Description

Lower-level API function for parsing only the deltatext sections (the final and typically largest chunk of an RCS file, see manpage rcsfile(5)) of an RCS file. After a parse_deltatext_sections run, the RCS object will be fully populated.

Parameter raw

The tokenized RCS file, with admin and delta sections removed. (See parse_admin_section, tokenize and parse_delta_sections.)

Parameter progress_callback

This optional callback is invoked with the revision of the deltatext about to be parsed (useful for progress indicators).

Parameter args

Optional extra trailing arguments to be sent to progress_callback

See also

parse_admin_section, parse_delta_sections, parse, create

FIXME

Does not handle rcsfile(5) newphrase skipping.


Method tokenize

array(array(string)) tokenize(string data)

Description

Tokenize an RCS file into tokens suitable as argument to the various parse functions

Parameter data

The RCS file data

Returns

An array with arrays of tokens

Class Parser.RCS.DeltatextIterator

Description

Iterator for the deltatext sections of the RCS file. Typical usage:

Example

string raw = Stdio.read_file(my_rcs_filename); Parser.RCS rcs = Parser.RCS(my_rcs_filename, 0); raw = rcs->parse_delta_sections(rcs->parse_admin_section(raw)); foreach(rcs->DeltatextIterator(raw); int n; Parser.RCS.Revision rev) do_something(rev);


Method _iterator_index

protected int _iterator_index()

Returns

the number of deltatext entries processed so far (0..N-1, N being the total number of revisions in the rcs file)


Method _iterator_next

protected int _iterator_next()

Description

Advance the iterator one step.

Returns UNDEFINED when the iterator is finished, and otherwise the same as _iterator_index().


Method _iterator_value

protected Revision _iterator_value()

Returns

the Revision at whose deltatext data we are, updated with its info


Method create

Parser.RCS.DeltatextIterator Parser.RCS.DeltatextIterator(array deltatext_section, void|function(string, mixed ... :void) progress_callback, void|array(mixed) progress_callback_args)

Parameter deltatext_section

the deltatext section of the RCS file in its entirety

Parameter progress_callback

This optional callback is invoked with the revision of the deltatext about to be parsed (useful for progress indicators).

Parameter progress_callback_args

Optional extra trailing arguments to be sent to progress_callback

See also

the rcsfile(5) manpage outlines the sections of an RCS file


Syntax

int Parser.RCS.DeltatextIterator.nprotected bool read_next()

Description

Drops the leading whitespace before next revision's deltatext entry and sets this_rev to the revision number we're about to read.


Method parse_deltatext_section

protected int parse_deltatext_section(array raw, int o)

Description

Chops off the first deltatext section from the token array raw and returns the rest of the string, or the value 0 (zero) if we had already visited the final deltatext entry. The deltatext's data is stored destructively in the appropriate entry of the revisions array.

Note

raw+o must start with a deltatext entry for this method to work

FIXME

does not handle rcsfile(5) newphrase skipping

FIXME

if the rcs file is truncated, this method writes a descriptive error to stderr and then returns 0 - some nicer error handling wouldn't hurt

Class Parser.RCS.Revision

Description

All data tied to a particular revision of the file.


Variable added

int Parser.RCS.Revision.added

Description

The number of lines that were added from the previous revision to make this revision (for the initial revision too).

See also

lines, removed


Variable ancestor

string|zero Parser.RCS.Revision.ancestor

Description

The revision of the ancestor of this revision, or 0 if this was the initial revision.

See also

next


Variable author

string Parser.RCS.Revision.author

Description

The userid of the user that committed the revision.


Variable branch

string Parser.RCS.Revision.branch

Description

The branch name on which this revision was committed (calculated according to how cvs manages branches).


Variable branches

array(string) Parser.RCS.Revision.branches

Description

When there are branches from this revision, an array with the first revision number for each of the branches, otherwise 0.

Follow the next fields to get to the branch head.


Variable lines

int Parser.RCS.Revision.lines

Description

The number of lines this revision contained, altogether (not of particular interest for binary files).

See also

added, removed


Variable log

string Parser.RCS.Revision.log

Description

The log message associated with the revision.


Variable next

string|zero Parser.RCS.Revision.next

Description

The revision that succeeds this revision, or 0 if none exists (ie if this is the HEAD of the trunk or of a branch).

See also

ancestor


Variable rcs_next

string|zero Parser.RCS.Revision.rcs_next

Description

The revision stored next in the RCS file, or 0 if none exists.

Note

This field is straight from the RCS file, and has somewhat weird semantics. Usually you will want to use one of the derived fields next or prev or possibly rcs_prev.

See also

next, prev, rcs_prev


Variable rcs_prev

string|zero Parser.RCS.Revision.rcs_prev

Description

The revision that this revision is based on, or 0 if it is the HEAD.

This is the reverse pointer of rcs_next and branches, and is used by get_contents_for_revision() when applying the deltas to set text.

See also

rcs_next


Variable rcs_text

string Parser.RCS.Revision.rcs_text

Description

The raw delta as stored in the RCS file.

See also

text, get_contents_for_revision()


Variable removed

int Parser.RCS.Revision.removed

Description

The number of lines that were removed from the previous revision to make this revision.

See also

lines, added


Variable revision

string Parser.RCS.Revision.revision

Description

The revision number (i e rcs_file->revisions["1.1"]->revision == "1.1").


Variable state

string Parser.RCS.Revision.state

Description

The state of the revision - typically "Exp" or "dead".


Variable text

string|zero Parser.RCS.Revision.text

Description

The text as committed or 0 if get_contents_for_revision() hasn't been called for this revision yet.

Typically you don't access this field directly, but use get_contents_for_revision() to retrieve it.

See also

get_contents_for_revision(), rcs_text


Variable time

Calendar.TimeRange Parser.RCS.Revision.time

Description

The (UTC) date and time when the revision was committed (second precision).

Class Parser.SGML

Description

This is a handy simple parser of SGML-like syntax like HTML. It doesn't do anything advanced, but finding the corresponding end-tags.

It's used like this:

array res=Parser.SGML()->feed(string)->finish()->result();

The resulting structure is an array of atoms, where the atom can be a string or a tag. A tag contains a similar array, as data.

Example

A string "<gat>&nbsp;<gurka>&nbsp;</gurka>&nbsp;<banan>&nbsp;<kiwi>&nbsp;</gat>" results in

({
   tag "gat" object with data:
   ({
       tag "gurka" object with data:
       ({
           " "
       })
       tag "banan" object with data:
       ({
           " "
           tag "kiwi" object with data:
           ({
              " "
           })
       })
   })
})

ie, simple "tags" (not containers) are not detected, but containers are ended implicitely by a surrounding container _with_ an end tag.

The 'tag' is an object with the following variables:

	 string name;           - name of tag
	 mapping args;          - argument to tag
	 int line,char,column;  - position of tag
	 int eline,echar,ecolumn;  - end position of tag, src[char..echar-1] got the block. add by Xuesong Guo
	 string file;           - filename (see <ref>create</ref>)
	 array(SGMLatom) data;  - contained data
	 int open;		- is not an empty element and has no end tag. add by Xuesong Guo
     


Variable file

string Parser.SGML.file


Method create

Parser.SGML Parser.SGML()
Parser.SGML Parser.SGML(string filename, function(:void)|void name_formater, function(:void)|void argname_formater)

Description

This object is created with this filename. It's passed to all created tags, for debug and trace purposes. All tag name will be replace as name_formater(name) All arg_name will be replace as argname_formater(arg_name)

Note

No, it doesn't read the file itself. See feed().


Method feed
Method finish
Method result

object feed(string s)
array(SGMLatom|string) finish()
array(SGMLatom|string) result(string s)

Description

Feed new data to the object, or finish the stream. No result can be used until finish() is called.

Both finish() and result() return the computed data.

feed() returns the called object.

Class Parser.SGML.SGMLatom


Variable name
Variable args
Variable line
Variable char
Variable column
Variable eline
Variable echar
Variable ecolumn
Variable file
Variable data
Variable open

string Parser.SGML.SGMLatom.name
mapping Parser.SGML.SGMLatom.args
int Parser.SGML.SGMLatom.line
int Parser.SGML.SGMLatom.char
int Parser.SGML.SGMLatom.column
int Parser.SGML.SGMLatom.eline
int Parser.SGML.SGMLatom.echar
int Parser.SGML.SGMLatom.ecolumn
string Parser.SGML.SGMLatom.file
array(SGMLatom) Parser.SGML.SGMLatom.data
int Parser.SGML.SGMLatom.open

Class Parser.Tabular

Description

This is a parser for line and block oriented data. It provides a flexible yet concise record-description language to parse character/column/delimiter-organised records.

See also

Parser.LR, http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values, http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIFACT


Method compile

array|mapping compile(string|Stdio.File|Stdio.FILE input)

Description

Compiles the format description language into a compiled structure that can be fed to setformat, fetch, or create.

  • The format description is case sensitive.

  • The format description starts with a single line containing: [Tabular description begin]

  • The format description ends with a single line containing: [Tabular description end]

  • Any lines before the startline are skipped.

  • Any lines after the endline are not consumed.

  • Empty lines are skipped.

  • Comments start after a # or ;.

  • The depth level of a field is indicated by the number of leading spaces or colons at the beginning of the line.

  • The fieldname must not contain any whitespace.

  • An arbitrary number of single character field delimiters can be specified between brackets, e.g. [,;] or [,] would be for CSV.

  • When field delimiters are being used: in case of CSV type delimiters [\t,; ] the standard CSV quoting rules apply, in case other delimiters are used, no quoting is supported and the last field on a line should not specify a delimiter, but should specify a 0 fieldwidth instead.

  • A fixed field width can be specified by a plain decimal integer, a value of 0 indicates a field with arbitrary length that extends till the end of the line.

  • A matching regular expression can be enclosed in "", it has to match the complete field content and uses Regexp.SimpleRegexp syntax.

  • On records the following options are supported:

    mandatory

    This record is required.

    fold

    Fold this record's contents in the enclosing record.

    single

    This record is present at most once.

  • On fields the following options are supported:

    drop

    After reading and matching this field, drop the field content from the resulting mappingstructure.

See also

setformat(), create(), fetch()

Example

Example of the description language:

[Tabular description begin] csv :gtz ::mybankno [,] ::transferdate [,] ::mutatiesoort [,] ::volgnummer [,] ::bankno [,] ::name [,] ::kostenplaats [,] drop ::amount [,] ::afbij [,] ::mutatie [,] ::reference [,] ::valutacode [,] mt940 :messageheader1 mandatory ::exporttime "0000" drop ::CS1 " " drop ::exportday "01" drop ::exportaddress 12 ::exportnumber 5 "[0-9]+" :messageheader3 mandatory fold single ::messagetype "940" drop ::CS1 " " drop ::messagepriority "00" drop :TRN fold ::tag ":20:" drop ::reference "GTZPB|MPBZ|INGEB" :accountid fold ::tag ":25:" drop ::accountno 10 :statementno fold ::tag ":28C:" drop ::settlementno 0 drop :openingbalance mandatory single ::tag ":60F:" drop ::creditdebit 1 ::date 6 ::currency "EUR" ::amount 0 "[0-9]+,[0-9][0-9]" :statements ::statementline mandatory fold single :::tag ":61:" drop :::valuedate 6 :::creditdebit 1 :::amount "[0-9]+,[0-9][0-9]" :::CS1 "N" drop :::transactiontype 3 # 3 for Postbank, 4 for ING :::paymentreference 0 ::informationtoaccountowner fold single :::tag ":86:" drop :::accountno "[0-9]*( |)" :::accountname 0 ::description fold :::description 0 "|[^:].*" :closingbalance mandatory single ::tag ":62[FM]:" drop ::creditdebit 1 ::date 6 ::currency "EUR" ::amount 0 "[0-9]+,[0-9][0-9]" :informationtoaccountowner fold single ::tag ":86:" drop ::debit "D" drop ::debitentries 6 ::credit "C" drop ::creditentries 6 ::debit "D" drop ::debitamount "[0-9]+,[0-9][0-9]" ::credit "C" drop ::creditamount "[0-9]+,[0-9][0-9]" drop ::accountname "(\n[^-:][^\n]*)*" drop :messagetrailer mandatory single ::start "-" ::end "XXX" [Tabular description end]


Method create

Parser.Tabular Parser.Tabular(void|string|Stdio.File|Stdio.FILE input, void|array|mapping|string|Stdio.File|Stdio.FILE format, void|int verbose)

Description

This function initialises the parser.

Parameter input

The input stream or string.

Parameter format

The format to be used (either precompiled or not). The format description language is documented under compile().

Parameter verbose

If >1, it specifies the number of characters to display of the beginning of each record as a progress indicator. Special values are:

-4

Turns on format debugging with visible mismatches.

-3

Turns on format debugging with named field contents.

-2

Turns on format debugging with field contents.

-1

Turns on basic format debugging.

0

Turns off verbosity. Default.

1

Is the same as setting it to 70.

See also

compile(), setformat(), fetch()


Method feed

object feed(string content)

Parameter content

Is injected into the input stream.

Returns

This object.

See also

fetch()


Method fetch

mapping|zero fetch(void|array|mapping format)

Description

This function consumes as much input as needed to parse the full tabular structures at once.

Parameter format

Describes (precompiled only) formats to be parsed. If no format is specified, the format specified on create() is used, and empty lines are automatically skipped.

Returns

A nested mapping that contains the complete structure as described in the specified format.

If nothing matches the specified format, no input is consumed (except empty lines, if the default format is used), and zero is returned.

See also

compile(), create(), setformat(), skipemptylines()


Method setformat

array|mapping setformat(array|mapping format)

Parameter format

Replaces the default (precompiled only) format.

Returns

The previous default format.

See also

compile(), fetch()


Method skipemptylines

int skipemptylines()

Description

This function can be used to manually skip empty lines in the input. This is unnecessary if no argument is specified for fetch().

Returns

It returns true if EOF has been reached.

See also

fetch()

Module Parser.C


Method group

array(Token|array) group(array(string|Token) tokens, void|mapping(string:string) groupings)

Description

Fold sub blocks of an array of tokens into sub arrays, for grouping purposes.

Parameter tokens

The token array to fold.

Parameter groupings

Supplies the tokens marking the boundaries of blocks to fold. The indices of the mapping mark the start of a block, the corresponding values mark where the block ends. The sub arrays will start and end in these tokens. If no groupings mapping is provided, {}, () and [] are used as block boundaries.


Method hide_whitespaces

array hide_whitespaces(array tokens)

Description

Folds all whitespace tokens into the previous token's trailing_whitespaces.


Method reconstitute_with_line_numbers

string reconstitute_with_line_numbers(array(string|Token|array) tokens)

Description

Like simple_reconstitute, but adding additional #line n "file" preprocessor statements in the output whereever a new line or file starts.


Method simple_reconstitute

string simple_reconstitute(array(string|Token|array) tokens)

Description

Reconstitutes the token array into a plain string again; essentially reversing split() and whichever of the tokenize, group and hide_whitespaces methods may have been invoked.


Method split

array(string) split(string data, void|mapping(string:string) state)

Description

Splits the data string into an array of tokens. An additional element with a newline will be added to the resulting array of tokens. If the optional argument state is provided the split function is able to pause and resume splitting inside #"" and /**/ tokens. The state argument should be an initially empty mapping, in which split will store its state between successive calls.


Method strip_line_statements

array(Token|array) strip_line_statements(array(Token|array) tokens)

Description

Strips off all (preprocessor) line statements from a token array.


Method tokenize

array(Token) tokenize(array(string) s, void|string file)

Description

Returns an array of Token objects given an array of string tokens.

Class Parser.C.Token

Description

Represents a C token, along with a selection of associated data and operations.


Variable file

string Parser.C.Token.file

Description

The file in which the token was found.


Variable line

int Parser.C.Token.line

Description

The line where the token was found.


Variable text

string Parser.C.Token.text

Description

The actual token.


Variable trailing_whitespaces

string Parser.C.Token.trailing_whitespaces

Description

Trailing whitespaces.


Method _sprintf

string sprintf(string format, ... Parser.C.Token arg ... )

Description

If the object is printed as %s it will only output its text contents.


Method `+

string res = Parser.C.Token() + s

Description

A string can be added to the Token, which will be added to the text contents.


Method `==

int res = Parser.C.Token() == foo

Description

Tokens are considered equal if the text contents are equal. It is also possible to compare the Token object with a text string directly.


Method `[]

int|string res = Parser.C.Token()[ a ]

Description

Characters and ranges may be indexed from the text contents of the token.


Method ``+

string res = s + Parser.C.Token()

Description

A string can be added to the Token, which will be added to the text contents.


Method cast

(int)Parser.C.Token()
(float)Parser.C.Token()
(string)Parser.C.Token()
(array)Parser.C.Token()
(mapping)Parser.C.Token()
(multiset)Parser.C.Token()

Description

It is possible to case a Token object to a string. The text content will be returned.


Method create

Parser.C.Token Parser.C.Token(string text, void|int line, void|string file, void|string trailing_whitespace)

Class Parser.C.UnterminatedStringError

Description

Error thrown when an unterminated string token is encountered.


Inherit Generic

inherit Error.Generic : Generic


Variable err_str

string Parser.C.UnterminatedStringError.err_str

Description

The string that failed to be tokenized

Module Parser.ECMAScript

Description

ECMAScript/JavaScript token parser based on ECMAScript 2017 (ECMA-262), chapter 11: Lexical Grammar.


Method split

array(string) split(string data)

Description

Splits the ECMAScript source data in tokens.

Module Parser.LR

Description

LALR(1) parser generator.

Enum Parser.LR.SeverityLevel

Description

Severity level


Constant NOTICE
Constant WARNING
Constant ERROR

constant Parser.LR.NOTICE
constant Parser.LR.WARNING
constant Parser.LR.ERROR

Class Parser.LR.ErrorHandler

Description

Class handling reporting of errors and warnings.


Variable verbose

optional int(-1..1) Parser.LR.ErrorHandler.verbose

Description

Verbosity level

-1

Just errors.

0

Errors and warnings.

1

Also notices.


Method create

Parser.LR.ErrorHandler Parser.LR.ErrorHandler(int(-1..1)|void verbosity)

Description

Create a new error handler.

Parameter verbosity

Level of verbosity.

See also

verbose

Class Parser.LR.Parser

Description

This object implements an LALR(1) parser and compiler.

Normal use of this object would be:

 set_error_handler
 {add_rule, set_priority, set_associativity}*
 set_symbol_to_string
 compile
 {parse}*
 


Variable error_handler

function(SeverityLevel, string, string, mixed ... :void) Parser.LR.Parser.error_handler

Description

Compile error and warning handler.


Variable grammar

mapping(int:array(Rule)) Parser.LR.Parser.grammar

Description

The grammar itself.


Variable known_states

mapping(string:Kernel) Parser.LR.Parser.known_states

Description

LR0 states that are already known to the compiler.


Variable lr_error

int Parser.LR.Parser.lr_error

Description

Error code


Variable s_q

StateQueue|zero Parser.LR.Parser.s_q

Description

Contains all states used. In the queue section are the states that remain to be compiled.


Variable start_state

Kernel|zero Parser.LR.Parser.start_state

Description

The initial LR0 state.


Method _sprintf

string sprintf(string format, ... Parser.LR.Parser arg ... )

Description

Pretty-prints the current grammar to a string.


Method add_rule

void add_rule(Rule r)

Description

Add a rule to the grammar.

Parameter r

Rule to add.


Method cast

(int)Parser.LR.Parser()
(float)Parser.LR.Parser()
(string)Parser.LR.Parser()
(array)Parser.LR.Parser()
(mapping)Parser.LR.Parser()
(multiset)Parser.LR.Parser()

Description

Implements casting.

Parameter type

Type to cast to.


Method compile

int compile()

Description

Compiles the grammar into a parser, so that parse() can be called.


Method item_to_string

string item_to_string(Item i)

Description

Pretty-prints an item to a string.

Parameter i

Item to pretty-print.


Method parse

mixed parse(object|function(void:string|array(string|mixed)) scanner, void|object action_object)

Description

Parse the input according to the compiled grammar. The last value reduced is returned.

Note

The parser must have been compiled (with compile()) prior to calling this function.

Bugs

Errors should be throw()n.

Parameter scanner

The scanner function. It returns the next symbol from the input. It should either return a string (terminal) or an array with a string (terminal) and a mixed (value). EOF is indicated with the empty string.

Parameter action_object

Object used to resolve those actions that have been specified as strings.


Method rule_to_string

string rule_to_string(Rule r)

Description

Pretty-prints a rule to a string.

Parameter r

Rule to print.


Method set_associativity

void set_associativity(string terminal, int assoc)

Description

Sets the associativity of a terminal.

Parameter terminal

Terminal to set the associativity for.

Parameter assoc

Associativity; negative - left, positive - right, zero - no associativity.


Method set_error_handler

void set_error_handler(void|function(SeverityLevel, string, string, mixed ... :void) handler)

Description

Sets the error report function.

Parameter handler

Function to call to report errors and warnings. If zero or not specifier, use the built-in function.


Method set_priority

void set_priority(string terminal, int pri_val)

Description

Sets the priority of a terminal.

Parameter terminal

Terminal to set the priority for.

Parameter pri_val

Priority; higher = prefer this terminal.


Method set_symbol_to_string

void set_symbol_to_string(void|function(int|string:string) s_to_s)

Description

Sets the symbol to string conversion function. The conversion function is used by the various *_to_string functions to make comprehensible output.

Parameter s_to_s

Symbol to string conversion function. If zero or not specified, use the built-in function.


Method state_to_string

string state_to_string(Kernel state)

Description

Pretty-prints a state to a string.

Parameter state

State to pretty-print.

Class Parser.LR.Parser.Item

Description

An LR(0) item, a partially parsed rule.


Variable counter

int Parser.LR.Parser.Item.counter

Description

Depth counter (used when compiling).


Variable direct_lookahead

multiset(string) Parser.LR.Parser.Item.direct_lookahead

Description

Look-ahead set for this item.


Variable error_lookahead

multiset(string) Parser.LR.Parser.Item.error_lookahead

Description

Look-ahead set used for detecting conflicts


Variable item_id

int Parser.LR.Parser.Item.item_id

Description

Used to identify the item. Equal to r->number + offset.


Variable master_item

Item|zero Parser.LR.Parser.Item.master_item

Description

Item representing this one (used for shifts).


Variable next_state

Kernel|zero Parser.LR.Parser.Item.next_state

Description

The state we will get if we shift according to this rule


Variable number

int Parser.LR.Parser.Item.number

Description

Item identification number (used when compiling).


Variable offset

int Parser.LR.Parser.Item.offset

Description

How long into the rule the parsing has come.


Variable r

Rule|zero Parser.LR.Parser.Item.r

Description

The rule


Variable relation

multiset(Item) Parser.LR.Parser.Item.relation

Description

Relation to other items (used when compiling).

Class Parser.LR.Parser.Kernel

Description

Implements an LR(1) state


Variable action

mapping(int|string:Kernel|Rule) Parser.LR.Parser.Kernel.action

Description

The action table for this state

 object(kernel)    SHIFT to this state on this symbol.
 object(rule)      REDUCE according to this rule on this symbol.
 


Variable closure_set

multiset Parser.LR.Parser.Kernel.closure_set

Description

The symbols that closure has been called on.


Variable item_id_to_item

mapping(int:Item) Parser.LR.Parser.Kernel.item_id_to_item

Description

Used to lookup items given rule and offset


Variable items

array(Item) Parser.LR.Parser.Kernel.items

Description

Contains the items in this state.


Variable rules

multiset(Rule) Parser.LR.Parser.Kernel.rules

Description

Used to check if a rule already has been added when doing closures.


Variable symbol_items

mapping(int:multiset(Item)) Parser.LR.Parser.Kernel.symbol_items

Description

Contains the items whose next symbol is this non-terminal.


Method add_item

void add_item(Item i)

Description

Add an item to the state.


Method closure

void closure(int nonterminal)

Description

Make the closure of this state.

Parameter nonterminal

Nonterminal to make the closure on.


Method do_goto

Kernel do_goto(int|string symbol)

Description

Generates the state reached when doing goto on the specified symbol. i.e. it compiles the LR(0) state.

Parameter symbol

Symbol to make goto on.


Method goto_set

multiset(int|string) goto_set()

Description

Make the goto-set of this state.

Class Parser.LR.Parser.StateQueue

Description

This is a queue, which keeps the elements even after they are retrieved.


Variable arr

array(Kernel) Parser.LR.Parser.StateQueue.arr

Description

The queue itself.


Variable head

int(0..) Parser.LR.Parser.StateQueue.head

Description

Index of the head of the queue.


Variable tail

int(0..) Parser.LR.Parser.StateQueue.tail

Description

Index of the tail of the queue.


Method next

Kernel|zero next()

Description

Return the next state from the queue.


Method push

Kernel push(Kernel state)

Description

Pushes the state on the queue.

Parameter state

State to push.

Class Parser.LR.Priority

Description

Specifies the priority and associativity of a rule.


Variable assoc

int Parser.LR.Priority.assoc

Description

Associativity

-1

Left

0

None

1

Right


Variable value

int Parser.LR.Priority.value

Description

Priority value


Method create

Parser.LR.Priority Parser.LR.Priority(int p, int a)

Description

Create a new priority object.

Parameter p

Priority.

Parameter a

Associativity.

Class Parser.LR.Rule

Description

This object is used to represent a BNF-rule in the LR parser.


Variable action

function(:void)|string|zero Parser.LR.Rule.action

Description

Action to do when reducing this rule. function - call this function. string - call this function by name in the object given to the parser. The function is called with arguments corresponding to the values of the elements of the rule. The return value of the function will be the value of this non-terminal. The default rule is to return the first argument.


Variable has_tokens

int Parser.LR.Rule.has_tokens

Description

This rule contains tokens


Variable nonterminal

int Parser.LR.Rule.nonterminal

Description

Non-terminal this rule reduces to.


Variable num_nonnullables

int Parser.LR.Rule.num_nonnullables

Description

This rule has this many non-nullable symbols at the moment.


Variable number

int Parser.LR.Rule.number

Description

Sequence number of this rule (used for conflict resolving) Also used to identify the rule.


Variable pri

Priority|zero Parser.LR.Rule.pri

Description

Priority and associativity of this rule.


Variable symbols

array(string|int) Parser.LR.Rule.symbols

Description

The actual rule


Method create

Parser.LR.Rule Parser.LR.Rule(int nt, array(string|int) r, function(:void)|string|void a)

Description

Create a BNF rule.

Example

The rule

rule : nonterminal ":" symbols ";" { add_rule };

might be created as

rule(4, ({ 9, ":", 5, ";" }), "add_rule");

where 4 corresponds to the nonterminal "rule", 9 to "nonterminal" and 5 to "symbols", and the function "add_rule" is too be called when this rule is reduced.

Parameter nt

Non-terminal to reduce to.

Parameter r

Symbol sequence that reduces to nt.

Parameter a

Action to do when reducing according to this rule. function - Call this function. string - Call this function by name in the object given to the parser. The function is called with arguments corresponding to the values of the elements of the rule. The return value of the function will become the value of this non-terminal. The default rule is to return the first argument.

Module Parser.LR.GrammarParser

Description

This module generates an LR parser from a grammar specified according to the following grammar:

        directives : directive ;
	   directives : directives directive ;
	   directive : declaration ;
	   directive : rule ;
	   declaration : "%token" terminals ";" ;
	   rule : nonterminal ":" symbols ";" ;
	   rule : nonterminal ":" symbols action ";" ;
	   symbols : symbol ;
	   symbols : symbols symbol ;
	   terminals : terminal ;
	   terminals : terminals terminal ;
	   symbol : nonterminal ;
	   symbol : "string" ;
	   action : "{" "identifier" "}" ;
	   nonterminal : "identifier" ;
	   terminal : "string";
 


Variable lr_error

int Parser.LR.GrammarParser.lr_error

Description

Error code from the parsing.


Method make_parser

Parser make_parser(string str, object|void m)

Description

Compiles the parser-specification given in the first argument. Named actions are taken from the object if available, otherwise left as is.

Bugs

Returns error-code in both GrammarParser.error and return_value->lr_error.


Method make_parser_from_file

int|Parser make_parser_from_file(string fname, object|void m)

Description

Compiles the file specified in the first argument into an LR parser.

See also

make_parser

Module Parser.Markdown

Description

This is a port of the Javascript Markdown parser 'Marked' https://github.com/chjj/marked. The only method needed to be used is parse() which will transform Markdown text to HTML.

For a description on Markdown, go to the web page of the inventor of Markdown https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/.


Method encode_html

protected string encode_html(string html, void|bool enc)

Description

HTML encode <>"'. If enc is true & will also be encoded


Method parse

string parse(string md, void|mapping options)

Description

Convert markdown md to html

Parameter options
"gfm" : bool

Enable Github Flavoured Markdown. (true)

"tables" : bool

Enable GFM tables. Requires "gfm" (true)

"breaks" : bool

Enable GFM "breaks". Requires "gfm" (false)

"pedantic" : bool

Conform to obscure parts of markdown.pl as much as possible. Don't fix any of the original markdown bugs or poor behavior. (false)

"sanitize" : bool

Sanitize the output. Ignore any HTML that has been input. (false)

"mangle" : bool

Mangle (obfuscate) autolinked email addresses (true)

"smart_lists" : bool

Use smarter list behavior than the original markdown. (true)

"smartypants" : bool

Use "smart" typographic punctuation for things like quotes and dashes. (false)

"header_prefix" : string

Add prefix to ID attributes of header tags (empty)

"xhtml" : bool

Generate self closing XHTML tags (false)

"newline" : bool

Add a newline after tags. If false the output will be on one line (well, newlines in text will be kept). (false)

"renderer" : Renderer

Use this renderer to render output. (Renderer)

"lexer" : Lexer

Use this lexer to parse blocks of text. (Lexer)

"inline_lexer" : InlineLexer

Use this lexer to parse inline text. (InlineLexer)

"parser" : Parser

Use this parser instead of the default. (Parser)


Method replace1

protected string replace1(string subject, string from, string to)

Description

Replaces the first occurance of from in subject to to

Class Parser.Markdown.InlineLexer

Description

Lexer used for inline text (eg bold text inside a paragraph).


Method output

string output(string src)

Description

Parse some inline Markdown and return the corresponding HTML.

Class Parser.Markdown.Lexer

Description

Block-level lexer (parses paragraphs, lists, tables, etc).


Variable links

mapping Parser.Markdown.Lexer.links

Note

Read only


Variable tokens

array(mapping) Parser.Markdown.Lexer.tokens

Note

Read only


Method lex

this_program lex(string src)

Description

Main lexing entry point. Subclass Lexer and override this to add post-processing or other changes.

Class Parser.Markdown.Parser

Description

Top-level parsing handler. It's usually easier to replace the Renderer instead.


Method parse

string parse(Lexer src)


Method parse_text

protected string parse_text()


Method tok

protected string tok()

Description

Render a token (or group of tokens) to a string.

Class Parser.Markdown.Renderer


Method attrs

string attrs(mapping token, mapping|void dflt)

Description

Collect additional attributes from the token and render them as HTML attributes. Default attributes can be provided.


Method blockquote

string blockquote(string text, mapping token)


Method html
Method text
Method strong
Method em
Method del
Method codespan
Method br

string html(string text, mapping token)
string text(string t, mapping token)
string strong(string t, mapping token)
string em(string t, mapping token)
string del(string t, mapping token)
string codespan(string t, mapping token)
string br(mapping token)


Method code

string code(string code, string lang, bool escaped, mapping token)


Method heading

string heading(string text, int level, string raw, mapping token)


Method hr

string hr()


Method image

string image(string url, string title, string text, mapping token)


Method link

string link(string href, string|zero title, string text, mapping token)


Method list

string list(string body, void|bool ordered, mapping token)


Method listitem

string listitem(string text, mapping token)


Method paragraph

string paragraph(string text, mapping token)


Method table

string table(string header, string body, mapping token)


Method tablecell

string tablecell(string cell, mapping flags, mapping token)


Method tablerow

string tablerow(string row, mapping token)

Module Parser.Pike

Description

This module parses and tokenizes Pike source code.


Inherit "C.pmod"

inherit "C.pmod" : "C.pmod"

Module Parser.Python


Method split

array(string) split(string data)

Description

Returns the provided string with Python code as an array with tokens.

Module Parser._parser

Description

Low-level helpers for parsers.

Note

You probably don't want to use the modules contained in this module directly, but instead use the other Parser modules. See instead the modules below.

See also

Parser, Parser.C, Parser.Pike, Parser.RCS, Parser.HTML, Parser.XML

Module Parser._parser._C

Description

Low-level helpers for Parser.C.

Note

You probably want to use Parser.C instead of this module.

See also

Parser.C, _Pike.


Method tokenize

array(array(string)|string) tokenize(string code)

Description

Tokenize a string of C tokens.

Note

Don't use this function directly. Use Parser.C.tokenize() instead.

Returns

Returns an array with an array with C-level tokens, and the remainder (a partial token), if any.

Module Parser._parser._Pike

Description

Low-level helpers for Parser.Pike.

Note

You probably want to use Parser.Pike instead of this module.

See also

Parser.Pike, _C.


Method tokenize

array(array(string)|string) tokenize(string code)

Description

Tokenize a string of Pike tokens.

Returns

Returns an array with Pike-level tokens and the remainder (a partial token), if any.

Module Parser._parser._RCS

Description

Low-level helpers for Parser.RCS.

Note

You probably want to use Parser.RCS instead of this module.

See also

Parser.RCS


Method tokenize

array(array(string)) tokenize(string code)

Description

Tokenize a string of RCS tokens.

Note

Don't use this function directly. Use Parser.RCS.tokenize() instead.

See also

Parser.RCS.tokenize()