Macro XML_XPATH_CHECKNS

#define XML_XPATH_CHECKNS;

check namespaces at compilation

Macro XML_XPATH_NOVAR

#define XML_XPATH_NOVAR;

forbid variables in expression

Macro xmlXPathNodeSetGetLength

#define xmlXPathNodeSetGetLength(ns);

Implement a functionality similar to the DOM NodeList.length. Returns the number of nodes in the node-set.

Macro xmlXPathNodeSetIsEmpty

#define xmlXPathNodeSetIsEmpty(ns);

Checks whether @ns is empty or not. Returns %TRUE if @ns is an empty node-set.

Macro xmlXPathNodeSetItem

#define xmlXPathNodeSetItem(ns, index);

Implements a functionality similar to the DOM NodeList.item(). Returns the xmlNodePtr at the given @index in @ns or NULL if @index is out of range (0 to length-1)

Structure xmlNodeSet

struct _xmlNodeSet {
    int	nodeNr	: number of nodes in the set
    int	nodeMax	: size of the array as allocated
    xmlNodePtr *	nodeTab	: array of nodes in no particular order @@ with_ns to check wether name
} xmlNodeSet;

Typedef xmlNodeSetPtr

xmlNodeSet * xmlNodeSetPtr;

Structure xmlXPathAxis

struct _xmlXPathAxis {
    const xmlChar *	name	: the axis name
    xmlXPathAxisFunc	func	: the search function
} xmlXPathAxis;

Typedef xmlXPathAxisPtr

xmlXPathAxis * xmlXPathAxisPtr;

Structure xmlXPathCompExpr

struct _xmlXPathCompExpr {
The content of this structure is not made public by the API.
} xmlXPathCompExpr;

Typedef xmlXPathCompExprPtr

xmlXPathCompExpr * xmlXPathCompExprPtr;

Structure xmlXPathContext

struct _xmlXPathContext {
    xmlDocPtr	doc	: The current document
    xmlNodePtr	node	: The current node
    int	nb_variables_unused	: unused (hash table)
    int	max_variables_unused	: unused (hash table)
    xmlHashTablePtr	varHash	: Hash table of defined variables
    int	nb_types	: number of defined types
    int	max_types	: max number of types
    xmlXPathTypePtr	types	: Array of defined types
    int	nb_funcs_unused	: unused (hash table)
    int	max_funcs_unused	: unused (hash table)
    xmlHashTablePtr	funcHash	: Hash table of defined funcs
    int	nb_axis	: number of defined axis
    int	max_axis	: max number of axis
    xmlXPathAxisPtr	axis	: Array of defined axis the namespace nodes of the context node
    xmlNsPtr *	namespaces	: Array of namespaces
    int	nsNr	: number of namespace in scope
    void *	user	: function to free extra variables
    int	contextSize	: the context size
    int	proximityPosition	: the proximity position extra stuff for XPointer
    int	xptr	: is this an XPointer context?
    xmlNodePtr	here	: for here()
    xmlNodePtr	origin	: for origin() the set of namespace declarations in scope for the expre
    xmlHashTablePtr	nsHash	: The namespaces hash table
    xmlXPathVariableLookupFunc	varLookupFunc	: variable lookup func
    void *	varLookupData	: variable lookup data Possibility to link in an extra item
    void *	extra	: needed for XSLT The function name and URI when calling a function
    const xmlChar *	function
    const xmlChar *	functionURI	: function lookup function and data
    xmlXPathFuncLookupFunc	funcLookupFunc	: function lookup func
    void *	funcLookupData	: function lookup data temporary namespace lists kept for walking the n
    xmlNsPtr *	tmpNsList	: Array of namespaces
    int	tmpNsNr	: number of namespaces in scope error reporting mechanism
    void *	userData	: user specific data block
    xmlStructuredErrorFunc	error	: the callback in case of errors
    xmlError	lastError	: the last error
    xmlNodePtr	debugNode	: the source node XSLT dictionary
    xmlDictPtr	dict	: dictionary if any
    int	flags	: flags to control compilation Cache for reusal of XPath objects
    void *	cache
} xmlXPathContext;

Typedef xmlXPathContextPtr

xmlXPathContext * xmlXPathContextPtr;

Enum xmlXPathError

enum xmlXPathError {
    XPATH_EXPRESSION_OK = 0
    XPATH_NUMBER_ERROR = 1
    XPATH_UNFINISHED_LITERAL_ERROR = 2
    XPATH_START_LITERAL_ERROR = 3
    XPATH_VARIABLE_REF_ERROR = 4
    XPATH_UNDEF_VARIABLE_ERROR = 5
    XPATH_INVALID_PREDICATE_ERROR = 6
    XPATH_EXPR_ERROR = 7
    XPATH_UNCLOSED_ERROR = 8
    XPATH_UNKNOWN_FUNC_ERROR = 9
    XPATH_INVALID_OPERAND = 10
    XPATH_INVALID_TYPE = 11
    XPATH_INVALID_ARITY = 12
    XPATH_INVALID_CTXT_SIZE = 13
    XPATH_INVALID_CTXT_POSITION = 14
    XPATH_MEMORY_ERROR = 15
    XPTR_SYNTAX_ERROR = 16
    XPTR_RESOURCE_ERROR = 17
    XPTR_SUB_RESOURCE_ERROR = 18
    XPATH_UNDEF_PREFIX_ERROR = 19
    XPATH_ENCODING_ERROR = 20
    XPATH_INVALID_CHAR_ERROR = 21
    XPATH_INVALID_CTXT = 22
};

Typedef xmlXPathFuncPtr

xmlXPathFunct * xmlXPathFuncPtr;

Structure xmlXPathFunct

struct _xmlXPathFunct {
    const xmlChar *	name	: the function name
    xmlXPathEvalFunc	func	: the evaluation function
} xmlXPathFunct;

Structure xmlXPathObject

struct _xmlXPathObject {
    xmlXPathObjectType	type
    xmlNodeSetPtr	nodesetval
    int	boolval
    double	floatval
    xmlChar *	stringval
    void *	user
    int	index
    void *	user2
    int	index2
} xmlXPathObject;

Typedef xmlXPathObjectPtr

xmlXPathObject * xmlXPathObjectPtr;

Enum xmlXPathObjectType

enum xmlXPathObjectType {
    XPATH_UNDEFINED = 0
    XPATH_NODESET = 1
    XPATH_BOOLEAN = 2
    XPATH_NUMBER = 3
    XPATH_STRING = 4
    XPATH_POINT = 5
    XPATH_RANGE = 6
    XPATH_LOCATIONSET = 7
    XPATH_USERS = 8
    XPATH_XSLT_TREE = 9 /*  An XSLT value tree, non modifiable */
};

Structure xmlXPathParserContext

struct _xmlXPathParserContext {
    const xmlChar *	cur	: the current char being parsed
    const xmlChar *	base	: the full expression
    int	error	: error code
    xmlXPathContextPtr	context	: the evaluation context
    xmlXPathObjectPtr	value	: the current value
    int	valueNr	: number of values stacked
    int	valueMax	: max number of values stacked
    xmlXPathObjectPtr *	valueTab	: stack of values
    xmlXPathCompExprPtr	comp	: the precompiled expression
    int	xptr	: it this an XPointer expression
    xmlNodePtr	ancestor	: used for walking preceding axis
} xmlXPathParserContext;

Typedef xmlXPathParserContextPtr

xmlXPathParserContext * xmlXPathParserContextPtr;

Structure xmlXPathType

struct _xmlXPathType {
    const xmlChar *	name	: the type name
    xmlXPathConvertFunc	func	: the conversion function
} xmlXPathType;

Typedef xmlXPathTypePtr

xmlXPathType * xmlXPathTypePtr;

Structure xmlXPathVariable

struct _xmlXPathVariable {
    const xmlChar *	name	: the variable name
    xmlXPathObjectPtr	value	: the value
} xmlXPathVariable;

Typedef xmlXPathVariablePtr

xmlXPathVariable * xmlXPathVariablePtr;

Function type xmlXPathAxisFunc

xmlXPathObjectPtr	xmlXPathAxisFunc	(xmlXPathParserContextPtr ctxt, 
						 xmlXPathObjectPtr cur)

An axis traversal function. To traverse an axis, the engine calls the first time with cur == NULL and repeat until the function returns NULL indicating the end of the axis traversal.

Function type xmlXPathConvertFunc

int	xmlXPathConvertFunc		(xmlXPathObjectPtr obj, 
					 int type)

A conversion function is associated to a type and used to cast the new type to primitive values.

Function type xmlXPathEvalFunc

void	xmlXPathEvalFunc		(xmlXPathParserContextPtr ctxt, 
					 int nargs)

An XPath evaluation function, the parameters are on the XPath context stack.

Function type xmlXPathFuncLookupFunc

xmlXPathFunction	xmlXPathFuncLookupFunc	(void * ctxt, 
						 const xmlChar * name, 
						 const xmlChar * ns_uri)

Prototype for callbacks used to plug function lookup in the XPath engine.

Function type xmlXPathFunction

void	xmlXPathFunction		(xmlXPathParserContextPtr ctxt, 
					 int nargs)

An XPath function. The arguments (if any) are popped out from the context stack and the result is pushed on the stack.

Function type xmlXPathVariableLookupFunc

xmlXPathObjectPtr	xmlXPathVariableLookupFunc	(void * ctxt, 
							 const xmlChar * name, 
							 const xmlChar * ns_uri)

Prototype for callbacks used to plug variable lookup in the XPath engine.

Variable xmlXPathNAN

double xmlXPathNAN;

Variable xmlXPathNINF

double xmlXPathNINF;

Variable xmlXPathPINF

double xmlXPathPINF;

xmlXPathCastBooleanToNumber ()

double	xmlXPathCastBooleanToNumber	(int val)

Converts a boolean to its number value

xmlXPathCastBooleanToString ()

xmlChar *	xmlXPathCastBooleanToString	(int val)

Converts a boolean to its string value.

xmlXPathCastNodeSetToBoolean ()

int	xmlXPathCastNodeSetToBoolean	(xmlNodeSetPtr ns)

Converts a node-set to its boolean value

xmlXPathCastNodeSetToNumber ()

double	xmlXPathCastNodeSetToNumber	(xmlNodeSetPtr ns)

Converts a node-set to its number value

xmlXPathCastNodeSetToString ()

xmlChar *	xmlXPathCastNodeSetToString	(xmlNodeSetPtr ns)

Converts a node-set to its string value.

xmlXPathCastNodeToNumber ()

double	xmlXPathCastNodeToNumber	(xmlNodePtr node)

Converts a node to its number value

xmlXPathCastNodeToString ()

xmlChar *	xmlXPathCastNodeToString	(xmlNodePtr node)

Converts a node to its string value.

xmlXPathCastNumberToBoolean ()

int	xmlXPathCastNumberToBoolean	(double val)

Converts a number to its boolean value

xmlXPathCastNumberToString ()

xmlChar *	xmlXPathCastNumberToString	(double val)

Converts a number to its string value.

xmlXPathCastStringToBoolean ()

int	xmlXPathCastStringToBoolean	(const xmlChar * val)

Converts a string to its boolean value

xmlXPathCastStringToNumber ()

double	xmlXPathCastStringToNumber	(const xmlChar * val)

Converts a string to its number value

xmlXPathCastToBoolean ()

int	xmlXPathCastToBoolean		(xmlXPathObjectPtr val)

Converts an XPath object to its boolean value

xmlXPathCastToNumber ()

double	xmlXPathCastToNumber		(xmlXPathObjectPtr val)

Converts an XPath object to its number value

xmlXPathCastToString ()

xmlChar *	xmlXPathCastToString	(xmlXPathObjectPtr val)

Converts an existing object to its string() equivalent

xmlXPathCmpNodes ()

int	xmlXPathCmpNodes		(xmlNodePtr node1, 
					 xmlNodePtr node2)

Compare two nodes w.r.t document order

xmlXPathCompile ()

xmlXPathCompExprPtr	xmlXPathCompile	(const xmlChar * str)

Compile an XPath expression

xmlXPathCompiledEval ()

xmlXPathObjectPtr	xmlXPathCompiledEval	(xmlXPathCompExprPtr comp, 
						 xmlXPathContextPtr ctx)

Evaluate the Precompiled XPath expression in the given context.

xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean ()

int	xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean	(xmlXPathCompExprPtr comp, 
					 xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt)

Applies the XPath boolean() function on the result of the given compiled expression.

xmlXPathContextSetCache ()

int	xmlXPathContextSetCache		(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt, 
					 int active, 
					 int value, 
					 int options)

Creates/frees an object cache on the XPath context. If activates XPath objects (xmlXPathObject) will be cached internally to be reused. @options: 0: This will set the XPath object caching: @value: This will set the maximum number of XPath objects to be cached per slot There are 5 slots for: node-set, string, number, boolean, and misc objects. Use <0 for the default number (100). Other values for @options have currently no effect.

xmlXPathConvertBoolean ()

xmlXPathObjectPtr	xmlXPathConvertBoolean	(xmlXPathObjectPtr val)

Converts an existing object to its boolean() equivalent

xmlXPathConvertNumber ()

xmlXPathObjectPtr	xmlXPathConvertNumber	(xmlXPathObjectPtr val)

Converts an existing object to its number() equivalent

xmlXPathConvertString ()

xmlXPathObjectPtr	xmlXPathConvertString	(xmlXPathObjectPtr val)

Converts an existing object to its string() equivalent

xmlXPathCtxtCompile ()

xmlXPathCompExprPtr	xmlXPathCtxtCompile	(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt, 
						 const xmlChar * str)

Compile an XPath expression

xmlXPathEval ()

xmlXPathObjectPtr	xmlXPathEval	(const xmlChar * str, 
					 xmlXPathContextPtr ctx)

Evaluate the XPath Location Path in the given context.

xmlXPathEvalExpression ()

xmlXPathObjectPtr	xmlXPathEvalExpression	(const xmlChar * str, 
						 xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt)

Evaluate the XPath expression in the given context.

xmlXPathEvalPredicate ()

int	xmlXPathEvalPredicate		(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xmlXPathObjectPtr res)

Evaluate a predicate result for the current node. A PredicateExpr is evaluated by evaluating the Expr and converting the result to a boolean. If the result is a number, the result will be converted to true if the number is equal to the position of the context node in the context node list (as returned by the position function) and will be converted to false otherwise; if the result is not a number, then the result will be converted as if by a call to the boolean function.

xmlXPathFreeCompExpr ()

void	xmlXPathFreeCompExpr		(xmlXPathCompExprPtr comp)

Free up the memory allocated by @comp

xmlXPathFreeContext ()

void	xmlXPathFreeContext		(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt)

Free up an xmlXPathContext

xmlXPathFreeNodeSet ()

void	xmlXPathFreeNodeSet		(xmlNodeSetPtr obj)

Free the NodeSet compound (not the actual nodes !).

xmlXPathFreeNodeSetList ()

void	xmlXPathFreeNodeSetList		(xmlXPathObjectPtr obj)

Free up the xmlXPathObjectPtr @obj but don't deallocate the objects in the list contrary to xmlXPathFreeObject().

xmlXPathFreeObject ()

void	xmlXPathFreeObject		(xmlXPathObjectPtr obj)

Free up an xmlXPathObjectPtr object.

xmlXPathInit ()

void	xmlXPathInit			(void)

Initialize the XPath environment

xmlXPathIsInf ()

int	xmlXPathIsInf			(double val)

Provides a portable isinf() function to detect whether a double is a +Infinite or -Infinite. Based on trio code http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctrio/

xmlXPathIsNaN ()

int	xmlXPathIsNaN			(double val)

Provides a portable isnan() function to detect whether a double is a NotaNumber. Based on trio code http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctrio/

xmlXPathNewContext ()

xmlXPathContextPtr	xmlXPathNewContext	(xmlDocPtr doc)

Create a new xmlXPathContext

xmlXPathNodeSetCreate ()

xmlNodeSetPtr	xmlXPathNodeSetCreate	(xmlNodePtr val)

Create a new xmlNodeSetPtr of type double and of value @val

xmlXPathObjectCopy ()

xmlXPathObjectPtr	xmlXPathObjectCopy	(xmlXPathObjectPtr val)

allocate a new copy of a given object

xmlXPathOrderDocElems ()

long	xmlXPathOrderDocElems		(xmlDocPtr doc)

Call this routine to speed up XPath computation on static documents. This stamps all the element nodes with the document order Like for line information, the order is kept in the element->content field, the value stored is actually - the node number (starting at -1) to be able to differentiate from line numbers.