XMLScanner - XML/HTML tokenzier. Also known as XML push parser.
Constantsreturn values of token() method | |
| ERROR | - error in markup of input stream |
| EOF | - end of stream reached |
| HEAD |
- head of the element parsed:
<tag ... ^-- happens here |
| HEAD_END |
- end of head of non-empty element parsed:
<tag ... > ^-- happens here |
| EMPTY_HEAD_END |
- end of head of empty element parsed:
<tag ... /> ^-- happens here |
| TAIL |
- tail of the non-empty element parsed:
</tag> ^-- happens here |
| ATTR |
- attribute parsed:
<tag attr="value" >
^-- happens here
Attribute can be with or without (html style) value. scanner.attribute is the name of attribute and scanner.value - is a value of attribute. |
| TEXT |
- text parsed.
scanner.value contains the text. |
| CDATA |
- cdata parsed:
<![CDATA[ ...value... ]]>
^-- happens here scanner.value contains text of the cdata. |
| PI |
- processing instruction parsed:
<? ...value... ?>
^-- happens here scanner.value contains text of the instruction. |
| DOCTYPE | - doctype declaration parsed:
<!DOCTYPE ...value... >
^-- happens here scanner.value contains text of the doctype declaration: characters after <!DOCTYPE and before closing ' |
Properties | |
| value | - string, text of attribute value, text, cdata or pi. |
| attribute | - string, name of the attribute. Valid if token == XMLScanner.ATTR |
| tag | - string, name of the tag. Valid if token is XMLScanner.HEAD, XMLScanner.TAIL or XMLScanner.HEAD_END. |
Methods | |
| token |
( ) returns: int Returns one of constants above. Use them in fully qualified form, e.g. XMLScanner.HEAD, XMLScanner.TAIL, etc. |