xmerl_scan
Description
This module is the interface to the XML parser, it handles XML 1.0. The XML parser is activated through xmerl_scan:string/[1,2] or xmerl_scan:file/[1,2]. It returns records of the type defined in xmerl.hrl. See also tutorial on customization functions.
DATA TYPES
- document() = xmlElement() | xmlDocument()
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The document returned by xmerl_scan:string/[1,2] and xmerl_scan:file/[1,2]. The type of the returned record depends on the value of the document option passed to the function.
- global_state()
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The global state of the scanner, represented by the #xmerl_scanner{} record.
- option_list()
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Options allow to customize the behaviour of the scanner. See also tutorial on customization functions.
Possible options are:
- {acc_fun, Fun}
Call back function to accumulate contents of entity.
- {continuation_fun, Fun} | {continuation_fun, Fun, ContinuationState}
Call back function to decide what to do if the scanner runs into EOF before the document is complete.
- {event_fun, Fun} | {event_fun, Fun, EventState}
Call back function to handle scanner events.
- {fetch_fun, Fun} | {fetch_fun, Fun, FetchState}
Call back function to fetch an external resource.
- {hook_fun, Fun} | {hook_fun, Fun, HookState}
Call back function to process the document entities once identified.
- {close_fun, Fun}
Called when document has been completely parsed.
- {rules, ReadFun, WriteFun, RulesState} | {rules, Rules}
Handles storing of scanner information when parsing.
- {user_state, UserState}
Global state variable accessible from all customization functions
- {fetch_path, PathList}
PathList is a list of directories to search when fetching files. If the file in question is not in the fetch_path, the URI will be used as a file name.
- {space, Flag}
'preserve' (default) to preserve spaces, 'normalize' to accumulate consecutive whitespace and replace it with one space.
- {line, Line}
To specify starting line for scanning in document which contains fragments of XML.
- {namespace_conformant, Flag}
Controls whether to behave as a namespace conformant XML parser, 'false' (default) to not otherwise 'true'.
- {validation, Flag}
Controls whether to process as a validating XML parser: 'off' (default) no validation, or validation 'dtd' by DTD or 'schema' by XML Schema. 'false' and 'true' options are obsolete (i.e. they may be removed in a future release), if used 'false' equals 'off' and 'true' equals 'dtd'.
- {schemaLocation, [{Namespace,Link}|...]}
Tells explicitly which XML Schema documents to use to validate the XML document. Used together with the {validation,schema} option.
- {quiet, Flag}
Set to 'true' if xmerl should behave quietly and not output any information to standard output (default 'false').
- {doctype_DTD, DTD}
Allows to specify DTD name when it isn't available in the XML document. This option has effect only together with {validation,'dtd' option.
- {xmlbase, Dir}
XML Base directory. If using string/1 default is current directory. If using file/1 default is directory of given file.
- {encoding, Enc}
Set default character set used (default UTF-8). This character set is used only if not explicitly given by the XML declaration.
- {document, Flag}
Set to 'true' if xmerl should return a complete XML document as an xmlDocument record (default 'false').
- {comments, Flag}
Set to 'false' if xmerl should skip comments otherwise they will be returned as xmlComment records (default 'true').
- {default_attrs, Flag}
Set to 'true' if xmerl should add to elements missing attributes with a defined default value (default 'false').
- xmlDocument() = #xmlDocument{}
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The record definition is found in xmerl.hrl.
- xmlElement() = #xmlElement{}
cont_state(S::global_state()) -> global_state()
Equivalent to cont_state(ContinuationState, S).
cont_state(X::ContinuationState, S::global_state()) -> global_state()
For controlling the ContinuationState, to be used in a continuation function, and called when the parser encounters the end of the byte stream. See tutorial on customization functions.
event_state(S::global_state()) -> global_state()
Equivalent to event_state(EventState, S).
event_state(X::EventState, S::global_state()) -> global_state()
For controlling the EventState, to be used in an event function, and called at the beginning and at the end of a parsed entity. See tutorial on customization functions.
fetch_state(S::global_state()) -> global_state()
Equivalent to fetch_state(FetchState, S).
fetch_state(X::FetchState, S::global_state()) -> global_state()
For controlling the FetchState, to be used in a fetch function, and called when the parser fetch an external resource (eg. a DTD). See tutorial on customization functions.
file(Filename::string()) -> {xmlElement(), Rest}
Types
Rest = list()
Equivalent to file(Filename, []).
file(Filename::string(), Options::option_list()) -> {document(), Rest}
hook_state(S::global_state()) -> global_state()
Equivalent to hook_state(HookState, S).
hook_state(X::HookState, S::global_state()) -> global_state()
For controlling the HookState, to be used in a hook function, and called when the parser has parsed a complete entity. See tutorial on customization functions.
rules_state(S::global_state()) -> global_state()
Equivalent to rules_state(RulesState, S).
rules_state(X::RulesState, S::global_state()) -> global_state()
For controlling the RulesState, to be used in a rules function, and called when the parser store scanner information in a rules database. See tutorial on customization functions.
string(Text::list()) -> {xmlElement(), Rest}
Types
Rest = list()
Equivalent to string(Text, []).
string(Text::list(), Options::option_list()) -> {document(), Rest}
user_state(S::global_state()) -> global_state()
Equivalent to user_state(UserState, S).
user_state(X::UserState, S::global_state()) -> global_state()
For controlling the UserState, to be used in a user function. See tutorial on customization functions.