mxml/www/docfiles/LoadCallbacks.html
Michael R Sweet 61ba926ecc Prep for 2.1.
2004-11-13 18:26:38 +00:00

104 lines
3.8 KiB
HTML

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Mini-XML Programmers Manual, Version 2.1</TITLE>
<META NAME="author" CONTENT="Michael Sweet">
<META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright 2003-2004">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=iso-iso-8859-1">
<LINK REL="Start" HREF="index.html">
<LINK REL="Contents" HREF="toc.html">
<LINK REL="Prev" HREF="3MoreMiniXMLProgrammingTechniques.html">
<LINK REL="Next" HREF="SaveCallbacks.html">
<STYLE TYPE="text/css"><!--
BODY { font-family: serif }
H1 { font-family: sans-serif }
H2 { font-family: sans-serif }
H3 { font-family: sans-serif }
H4 { font-family: sans-serif }
H5 { font-family: sans-serif }
H6 { font-family: sans-serif }
SUB { font-size: smaller }
SUP { font-size: smaller }
PRE { font-family: monospace }
--></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<A HREF="toc.html">Contents</A>
<A HREF="3MoreMiniXMLProgrammingTechniques.html">Previous</A>
<A HREF="SaveCallbacks.html">Next</A>
<HR NOSHADE>
<H2><A name="LOAD_CALLBACKS">Load Callbacks</A></H2>
<P><A href="#LOAD_XML">Chapter 2</A> introduced the <A href="mxmlLoadFile.html#mxmlLoadFile">
<TT>mxmlLoadFile()</TT></A> and <A href="mxmlLoadString.html#mxmlLoadString">
<TT>mxmlLoadString()</TT></A> functions. The last argument to these
functions is a callback function which is used to determine the value
type of each data node in an XML document.</P>
<P>Mini-XML defines several standard callbacks for simple XML data
files:</P>
<UL>
<LI><TT>MXML_INTEGER_CALLBACK</TT> - All data nodes contain
whitespace-separated integers.</LI>
<LI><TT>MXML_OPAQUE_CALLBACK</TT> - All data nodes contain opaque
strings (&quot;CDATA&quot;).</LI>
<LI><TT>MXML_REAL_CALLBACK</TT> - All data nodes contain
whitespace-separated floating-point numbers.</LI>
<LI><TT>MXML_TEXT_CALLBACK</TT> - All data nodes contain
whitespace-separated strings.</LI>
</UL>
<P>You can provide your own callback functions for more complex XML
documents. Your callback function will receive a pointer to the current
element node and must return the value type of the immediate children
for that element node: <TT>MXML_INTEGER</TT>, <TT>MXML_OPAQUE</TT>, <TT>
MXML_REAL</TT>, or <TT>MXML_TEXT</TT>. The function is called<I> after</I>
the element and its attributes have been read, so you can look at the
element name, attributes, and attribute values to determine the proper
value type to return.</P>
<!-- NEED 2in -->
<P>The following callback function looks for an attribute named &quot;type&quot;
or the element name to determine the value type for its child nodes:</P>
<PRE>
/*
* 'type_cb()' - XML data type callback for mxmlLoadFile()...
*/
mxml_type_t /* O - Data type */
type_cb(mxml_node_t *node) /* I - Element node */
{
const char *type; /* Type string */
/*
* You can lookup attributes and/or use the element name, hierarchy, etc...
*/
if ((type = mxmlElementGetAttr(node, &quot;type&quot;)) == NULL)
type = node-&gt;value.element.name;
if (!strcmp(type, &quot;integer&quot;))
return (MXML_INTEGER);
else if (!strcmp(type, &quot;opaque&quot;))
return (MXML_OPAQUE);
else if (!strcmp(type, &quot;real&quot;))
return (MXML_REAL);
else
return (MXML_TEXT);
}
</PRE>
<P>To use this callback function, simply use the name when you call any
of the load functions:</P>
<PRE>
FILE *fp;
<A href="mxmlnodet.html#mxml_node_t">mxml_node_t</A> *tree;
fp = fopen(&quot;filename.xml&quot;, &quot;r&quot;);
tree = <A href="mxmlLoadFile.html#mxmlLoadFile">mxmlLoadFile</A>(NULL, fp, <B>type_cb</B>);
fclose(fp);
</PRE>
<HR NOSHADE>
<A HREF="toc.html">Contents</A>
<A HREF="3MoreMiniXMLProgrammingTechniques.html">Previous</A>
<A HREF="SaveCallbacks.html">Next</A>
</BODY>
</HTML>