XML PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT SERVICE

The XML Processing Environmentservice is an original implementation that provides the support for processing xml document that could be accessed locally or remotely. In particular, the processing environment supports the XML includefacility.

XML content
The XmlContentclass is an extension of the XML document object that provides the service for loading a XML document locally or from the Internet. The class operates with an uri, which permits to selects the appropriate loader from the uri scheme.

Content creation
The XmlContentoperates with an uri that permits to select the appropriate loader. If the uri scheme is a file scheme, the content is retrieved locally. If the uri scheme is http, the content is retrieved by establishing a http connection over the Internet.

# create a document from a local file
const xdoc (
  afnix:xpe:XmlContent "file:///home/afnix/file.xml")

When the uri scheme is a file, the uri authority is empty (hence the double //) and the path indicates the file to parse. The XmlContent object is derived from the XmlDocumentobject which contains the parsed tree with the XmlRootobject.

# create a document from a http connection
const xdoc (
  afnix:xpe:XmlContent 
  "http://www.afnix.org/index.xht")

When the uri scheme is a http scheme, the document is downloaded by establishing an http connection with the uri authority. When the http header is received, the content is parsed to create a valid xml document. If the http response header indicates that the page has moved and a new location is provided, the object manages automatically to follow such location.

Content and document name
Since the XmlContentobject is derived from the XmlContentobject, the content object is defined with a uri name and a document name. Under normal circumstances, the document name is derived from the content name by normalizing it. The content name is the object constructor name, while the document name is the normalized document name. The get-namemethod returns the content name while the get-document-namemethod returns the document name.

# create a document by name
const xdoc (afnix:xpe:XmlContent "file" "file.xml")

In the previous example, a xml content object is created by name with a document name. It is the document name that gets normalized. Therefore in the previous example, the file.xmldocument name is normalized into a file uri. The normalization rule always favor the file scheme. This means that without a scheme, the file scheme is automatically added.

Content type
Many times, the content type cannot be detected from the uri name. Once opened, if the content header provides a clue about the content type, the opened input stream get adjusted automatically to reflect this fact. However, this situation does not occurs often and with http scheme, the content type header response does not often provides the character encoding associated with the stream. For this reason, the XmlContentconstructor provides a mechanism to accept the encoding mode.

# create a new content by name and encoding mode
const xdoc (
  afnix:xpe:XmlContent "file" "file.xml" "UTF-8")

XML PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT SERVICE REFERENCE

XmlContent
The XmlContentclass is an extension of the xml document class that operates at the uri level. If the uri is a local file the xml document is created from an input file stream. If the uri is an url, the content is fetched automatically. The class constructors permit to separate the content name from the document name and also to specify the content encoding.

Predicate

xml-content-p

Inheritance

XmlDocumentMime

Constructors

XmlContent (String)
The XmlContentconstructor creates a xml document by name. The document name is the normalized uri name that always favor a file scheme in the absence of it.

XmlContent (String String)
The XmlContentconstructor creates a xml document by name. The first argument is the content name. The second argument is the document name which is normalized to form the uri name used to load the document.

XmlContent (String String String)
The XmlContentconstructor creates a xml document by name and encoding mode. The first argument is the content name. The second argument is the document name which is normalized to form the uri name used to load the document. The third argument is the content character encoding.

Methods

get-document-uri -> String (none)
The get-document-urimethod returns the document normalized uri.

get-document-name -> String (none)
The get-document-namemethod returns the object document name. This method complements the get-namemethod which returns the object name.

XmlFeature
The XmlFeatureclass is a xml processor base class that defines a processing feature. A processing feature is defined by name and information with a processing level. The default processing level is null. When the processor is called, it calls sequentially and in ascending order all features.

Predicate

xhtml-feature-p

Inheritance

Nameable

Methods

get-info -> String (none)
The get-infomethod returns the xml feature information string. The feature name is available from the get-nameprovided by the Nameablebase class.

set-processing-level -> none (Integer)
The set-processing-levelmethod sets the feature processing level. The integer argument is the level to set.

get-processing-level -> Integer (none)
The get-processing-levelmethod returns the feature processing level.

processing-level-p -> Boolean (Integer)
The processing-level-ppredicate returns true if the integer argument equal the feature processing level.

process -> XmlContent (XmlContent)
The processmethod process the input xml content and returns a new xml content. The method is automatically called by the xml processor.

XmlProcessor
The XmlProcessorclass is a global class designed to operate on a xml content. The xml processor provides several features that can be enabled prior the document processor. Once the features are defined, the 'process' method can be called and a new xml content can be produced.

Predicate

xml-processor-p

Inheritance

Object

Constructors

XmlProcessor (none)
The XmlProcessorconstructor creates a default xml processor without any feature.

Methods

feature-length -> Integer (none)
The feature-lengthmethod returns the number of features defined in the xml processor.

add-feature -> none (XmlFeature)
The add-featuremethod adds a feature object to the processor. The feature processing level does not have to be sorted prior the insertion. Adding multiple feature creates a processor chain.

get-feature -> XmlFeature (Integer)
The get-featuremethod return a processor feature by index.

process -> XmlFeature (XmlFeature)
The processmethod create a new xml content by calling processing feature chain. The feature chain consists of feature object sorted in ascending order. If the processor contains only one feature, calling the processmethod is equivalent to call the XmlFeaturesame method.

XmlInclude
The XmlIncludeclass is a xml processor feature class designed to handle the "XInclude" schema that permits to include xml document. The feature operates recursively by scanning the document for a "xi:include" tag and replacing the content by the appropriate tree. The feature operates recursively unless specified otherwise.

Predicate

xml-include-p

Inheritance

XmlFeature

Constructors

XmlInclude (none)
The XmlIncludeconstructor creates a default xml include feature. The default feature processing level is 10.

XmlInclude (Integer)
The XmlIncludeconstructor creates a xml include feature with a processing level. The integer argument is the feature processing level to set.