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- </style><title>A real example</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" /></a></td><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"><img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</h1><h2>A real 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cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>Here is a real size example, where the actual content of the application
- data is not kept in the DOM tree but uses internal structures. It is based on
- a proposal to keep a database of jobs related to Gnome, with an XML based
- storage structure. Here is an <a href="gjobs.xml">XML encoded jobs
- base</a>:</p><pre><?xml version="1.0"?>
- <gjob:Helping xmlns:gjob="http://www.gnome.org/some-location">
- <gjob:Jobs>
- <gjob:Job>
- <gjob:Project ID="3"/>
- <gjob:Application>GBackup</gjob:Application>
- <gjob:Category>Development</gjob:Category>
- <gjob:Update>
- <gjob:Status>Open</gjob:Status>
- <gjob:Modified>Mon, 07 Jun 1999 20:27:45 -0400 MET DST</gjob:Modified>
- <gjob:Salary>USD 0.00</gjob:Salary>
- </gjob:Update>
- <gjob:Developers>
- <gjob:Developer>
- </gjob:Developer>
- </gjob:Developers>
- <gjob:Contact>
- <gjob:Person>Nathan Clemons</gjob:Person>
- <gjob:Email>nathan@windsofstorm.net</gjob:Email>
- <gjob:Company>
- </gjob:Company>
- <gjob:Organisation>
- </gjob:Organisation>
- <gjob:Webpage>
- </gjob:Webpage>
- <gjob:Snailmail>
- </gjob:Snailmail>
- <gjob:Phone>
- </gjob:Phone>
- </gjob:Contact>
- <gjob:Requirements>
- The program should be released as free software, under the GPL.
- </gjob:Requirements>
- <gjob:Skills>
- </gjob:Skills>
- <gjob:Details>
- A GNOME based system that will allow a superuser to configure
- compressed and uncompressed files and/or file systems to be backed
- up with a supported media in the system. This should be able to
- perform via find commands generating a list of files that are passed
- to tar, dd, cpio, cp, gzip, etc., to be directed to the tape machine
- or via operations performed on the filesystem itself. Email
- notification and GUI status display very important.
- </gjob:Details>
- </gjob:Job>
- </gjob:Jobs>
- </gjob:Helping></pre><p>While loading the XML file into an internal DOM tree is a matter of
- calling only a couple of functions, browsing the tree to gather the data and
- generate the internal structures is harder, and more error prone.</p><p>The suggested principle is to be tolerant with respect to the input
- structure. For example, the ordering of the attributes is not significant,
- the XML specification is clear about it. It's also usually a good idea not to
- depend on the order of the children of a given node, unless it really makes
- things harder. Here is some code to parse the information for a person:</p><pre>/*
- * A person record
- */
- typedef struct person {
- char *name;
- char *email;
- char *company;
- char *organisation;
- char *smail;
- char *webPage;
- char *phone;
- } person, *personPtr;
- /*
- * And the code needed to parse it
- */
- personPtr parsePerson(xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNsPtr ns, xmlNodePtr cur) {
- personPtr ret = NULL;
- DEBUG("parsePerson\n");
- /*
- * allocate the struct
- */
- ret = (personPtr) malloc(sizeof(person));
- if (ret == NULL) {
- fprintf(stderr,"out of memory\n");
- return(NULL);
- }
- memset(ret, 0, sizeof(person));
- /* We don't care what the top level element name is */
- cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;
- while (cur != NULL) {
- if ((!strcmp(cur->name, "Person")) && (cur->ns == ns))
- ret->name = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
- if ((!strcmp(cur->name, "Email")) && (cur->ns == ns))
- ret->email = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
- cur = cur->next;
- }
- return(ret);
- }</pre><p>Here are a couple of things to notice:</p><ul><li>Usually a recursive parsing style is the more convenient one: XML data
- is by nature subject to repetitive constructs and usually exhibits highly
- structured patterns.</li>
- <li>The two arguments of type <em>xmlDocPtr</em> and <em>xmlNsPtr</em>,
- i.e. the pointer to the global XML document and the namespace reserved to
- the application. Document wide information are needed for example to
- decode entities and it's a good coding practice to define a namespace for
- your application set of data and test that the element and attributes
- you're analyzing actually pertains to your application space. This is
- done by a simple equality test (cur->ns == ns).</li>
- <li>To retrieve text and attributes value, you can use the function
- <em>xmlNodeListGetString</em> to gather all the text and entity reference
- nodes generated by the DOM output and produce an single text string.</li>
- </ul><p>Here is another piece of code used to parse another level of the
- structure:</p><pre>#include <libxml/tree.h>
- /*
- * a Description for a Job
- */
- typedef struct job {
- char *projectID;
- char *application;
- char *category;
- personPtr contact;
- int nbDevelopers;
- personPtr developers[100]; /* using dynamic alloc is left as an exercise */
- } job, *jobPtr;
- /*
- * And the code needed to parse it
- */
- jobPtr parseJob(xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNsPtr ns, xmlNodePtr cur) {
- jobPtr ret = NULL;
- DEBUG("parseJob\n");
- /*
- * allocate the struct
- */
- ret = (jobPtr) malloc(sizeof(job));
- if (ret == NULL) {
- fprintf(stderr,"out of memory\n");
- return(NULL);
- }
- memset(ret, 0, sizeof(job));
- /* We don't care what the top level element name is */
- cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;
- while (cur != NULL) {
-
- if ((!strcmp(cur->name, "Project")) && (cur->ns == ns)) {
- ret->projectID = xmlGetProp(cur, "ID");
- if (ret->projectID == NULL) {
- fprintf(stderr, "Project has no ID\n");
- }
- }
- if ((!strcmp(cur->name, "Application")) && (cur->ns == ns))
- ret->application = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
- if ((!strcmp(cur->name, "Category")) && (cur->ns == ns))
- ret->category = xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
- if ((!strcmp(cur->name, "Contact")) && (cur->ns == ns))
- ret->contact = parsePerson(doc, ns, cur);
- cur = cur->next;
- }
- return(ret);
- }</pre><p>Once you are used to it, writing this kind of code is quite simple, but
- boring. Ultimately, it could be possible to write stubbers taking either C
- data structure definitions, a set of XML examples or an XML DTD and produce
- the code needed to import and export the content between C data and XML
- storage. This is left as an exercise to the reader :-)</p><p>Feel free to use <a href="example/gjobread.c">the code for the full C
- parsing example</a> as a template, it is also available with Makefile in the
- Gnome SVN base under libxml2/example</p><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>
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