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authorarseny.kapoulkine <arseny.kapoulkine@99668b35-9821-0410-8761-19e4c4f06640>2010-09-24 05:37:50 +0000
committerarseny.kapoulkine <arseny.kapoulkine@99668b35-9821-0410-8761-19e4c4f06640>2010-09-24 05:37:50 +0000
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tree9e9f9ce456bb906836de6557c69a982e297904cb /docs/manual
parent8e35d117c4d9355af66a589f26940ce296bcf973 (diff)
docs: Removed pugixpath.cpp mentions, updated evaluate_* arguments and added xpath_node ctor clarification, updated custom memory management description, updated CDATA printing information, added wide load_file/save_file documentation, added as_utf8/as_wide string overloads, fixed xml_node::root() complexity
git-svn-id: http://pugixml.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@752 99668b35-9821-0410-8761-19e4c4f06640
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/manual')
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/access.html4
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/apiref.html47
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/dom.html48
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/loading.html36
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/saving.html50
-rw-r--r--docs/manual/xpath.html44
6 files changed, 113 insertions, 116 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/access.html b/docs/manual/access.html
index 4581583..1accecb 100644
--- a/docs/manual/access.html
+++ b/docs/manual/access.html
@@ -624,9 +624,7 @@
<p>
This function returns the node with type <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">node_document</span></code>,
which is the root node of the document the node belongs to (unless the node
- is null, in which case null node is returned). Currently this function has
- logarithmic complexity, since it simply finds such ancestor of the given
- node which itself has no parent.
+ is null, in which case null node is returned).
</p>
<a name="xml_node::path"></a><a name="xml_node::first_element_by_path"></a><p>
While pugixml supports complex XPath expressions, sometimes a simple path
diff --git a/docs/manual/apiref.html b/docs/manual/apiref.html
index 24120ad..5e595cf 100644
--- a/docs/manual/apiref.html
+++ b/docs/manual/apiref.html
@@ -800,7 +800,15 @@
<span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">parse_default</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">xml_encoding</span>
<span class="identifier">encoding</span> <span class="special">=</span>
<span class="identifier">encoding_auto</span><span class="special">);</span></code>
- <br><br>
+ </li>
+<li class="listitem">
+ <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">xml_parse_result</span> </code><a class="link" href="loading.html#xml_document::load_file_wide">load_file</a><code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">wchar_t</span><span class="special">*</span>
+ <span class="identifier">path</span><span class="special">,</span>
+ <span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="keyword">int</span>
+ <span class="identifier">options</span> <span class="special">=</span>
+ <span class="identifier">parse_default</span><span class="special">,</span>
+ <span class="identifier">xml_encoding</span> <span class="identifier">encoding</span>
+ <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">encoding_auto</span><span class="special">);</span></code> <br><br>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
@@ -839,6 +847,17 @@
<span class="identifier">encoding</span> <span class="special">=</span>
<span class="identifier">encoding_auto</span><span class="special">)</span>
<span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span></code>
+ </li>
+<li class="listitem">
+ <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">bool</span> </code><a class="link" href="saving.html#xml_document::save_file_wide">save_file</a><code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">wchar_t</span><span class="special">*</span>
+ <span class="identifier">path</span><span class="special">,</span>
+ <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">char_t</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">indent</span>
+ <span class="special">=</span> <span class="string">"\t"</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">unsigned</span>
+ <span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="identifier">flags</span>
+ <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">format_default</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">xml_encoding</span>
+ <span class="identifier">encoding</span> <span class="special">=</span>
+ <span class="identifier">encoding_auto</span><span class="special">)</span>
+ <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span></code>
<br><br>
</li>
@@ -893,6 +912,9 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
+ <a class="link" href="loading.html#xml_parse_result::ctor">xml_parse_result</a><code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">();</span></code>
+ </li>
+<li class="listitem">
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">operator</span> </code><a class="link" href="loading.html#xml_parse_result::bool">bool</a><code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">()</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span></code>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
@@ -1107,23 +1129,12 @@
<p>
Functions:
</p>
-<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc">
-<li class="listitem">
- <a class="link" href="dom.html#as_utf8">as_utf8</a>
- </li>
-<li class="listitem">
- <a class="link" href="dom.html#as_wide">as_wide</a>
- </li>
-<li class="listitem">
- <a class="link" href="dom.html#get_memory_allocation_function">get_memory_allocation_function</a>
- </li>
-<li class="listitem">
- <a class="link" href="dom.html#get_memory_deallocation_function">get_memory_deallocation_function</a>
- </li>
-<li class="listitem">
- <a class="link" href="dom.html#set_memory_management_functions">set_memory_management_functions</a>
- </li>
-</ul></div>
+<p>
+ $$ overloads, types * <a class="link" href="dom.html#as_utf8">as_utf8</a> * <a class="link" href="dom.html#as_wide">as_wide</a>
+ * <a class="link" href="dom.html#get_memory_allocation_function">get_memory_allocation_function</a>
+ * <a class="link" href="dom.html#get_memory_deallocation_function">get_memory_deallocation_function</a>
+ * <a class="link" href="dom.html#set_memory_management_functions">set_memory_management_functions</a>
+ </p>
</div>
<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr>
<td align="left"></td>
diff --git a/docs/manual/dom.html b/docs/manual/dom.html
index 2d65070..def86a5 100644
--- a/docs/manual/dom.html
+++ b/docs/manual/dom.html
@@ -371,9 +371,10 @@
</p></td></tr>
</table></div>
<p>
- All tree functions that work with strings work with either C-style null terminated
- strings or STL strings of the selected character type. For example, node
- name accessors look like this in char mode:
+ $$ wording - one may think that child() has a string overload All tree functions
+ that work with strings work with either C-style null terminated strings or
+ STL strings of the selected character type. For example, node name accessors
+ look like this in char mode:
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">char</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">xml_node</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">name</span><span class="special">()</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="keyword">bool</span> <span class="identifier">xml_node</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">set_name</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">char</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">value</span><span class="special">);</span>
@@ -416,7 +417,12 @@
performs conversion from UTF-8 to UTF-16/32. Invalid UTF sequences are silently
discarded upon conversion. <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">str</span></code>
has to be a valid string; passing null pointer results in undefined behavior.
+ There are also two overloads with the same semantics which accept a string
+ as an argument:
</p>
+<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">string</span> <span class="identifier">as_utf8</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">wstring</span><span class="special">&amp;</span> <span class="identifier">str</span><span class="special">);</span>
+<span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">wstring</span> <span class="identifier">as_wide</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">string</span><span class="special">&amp;</span> <span class="identifier">str</span><span class="special">);</span>
+</pre>
<div class="note"><table border="0" summary="Note">
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../images/note.png"></td>
@@ -493,7 +499,7 @@
guarantees beyond the ones provided by callback.
</p>
<p>
- XPath functions may throw <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">xpath_exception</span></code>
+ $$ XPath functions may throw <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">xpath_exception</span></code>
on parsing error; also, XPath implementation uses STL, and thus may throw
i.e. <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">bad_alloc</span></code> in low memory conditions. Still,
XPath functions provide strong exception guarantee.
@@ -514,10 +520,10 @@
functions</a>
</h4></div></div></div>
<a name="allocation_function"></a><a name="deallocation_function"></a><p>
- All memory for tree structure/data is allocated via globally specified
- functions, which default to malloc/free. You can set your own allocation
- functions with set_memory_management functions. The function interfaces
- are the same as that of malloc/free:
+ All memory for tree structure, tree data and XPath objects is allocated
+ via globally specified functions, which default to malloc/free. You can
+ set your own allocation functions with set_memory_management functions.
+ The function interfaces are the same as that of malloc/free:
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="keyword">void</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="special">(*</span><span class="identifier">allocation_function</span><span class="special">)(</span><span class="identifier">size_t</span> <span class="identifier">size</span><span class="special">);</span>
<span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="keyword">void</span> <span class="special">(*</span><span class="identifier">deallocation_function</span><span class="special">)(</span><span class="keyword">void</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">ptr</span><span class="special">);</span>
@@ -533,13 +539,15 @@
<p>
Allocation function is called with the size (in bytes) as an argument and
should return a pointer to memory block with alignment that is suitable
- for pointer storage and size that is greater or equal to the requested
- one. If the allocation fails, the function has to return null pointer (throwing
- an exception from allocation function results in undefined behavior). Deallocation
- function is called with the pointer that was returned by the previous call
- or with a null pointer; null pointer deallocation should be handled as
- a no-op. If memory management functions are not thread-safe, library thread
- safety is not guaranteed.
+ for storage of primitive types (usually a maximum of pointer and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">double</span></code> types alignment is sufficient) and
+ size that is greater or equal to the requested one. If the allocation fails,
+ the function has to return null pointer (throwing an exception from allocation
+ function results in undefined behavior).
+ </p>
+<p>
+ Deallocation function is called with the pointer that was returned by the
+ previous call; it is never called with a null pointer. If memory management
+ functions are not thread-safe, library thread safety is not guaranteed.
</p>
<p>
This is a simple example of custom memory management (<a href="../samples/custom_memory_management.cpp" target="_top">samples/custom_memory_management.cpp</a>):
@@ -572,16 +580,6 @@
are destroyed, the new deallocation function will be called with the memory
obtained by the old allocation function, resulting in undefined behavior.
</p>
-<div class="note"><table border="0" summary="Note">
-<tr>
-<td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../images/note.png"></td>
-<th align="left">Note</th>
-</tr>
-<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>
- Currently memory for XPath objects is allocated using default operators
- new/delete; this will change in the next version.
- </p></td></tr>
-</table></div>
</div>
<div class="section">
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">
diff --git a/docs/manual/loading.html b/docs/manual/loading.html
index a3c1515..547b355 100644
--- a/docs/manual/loading.html
+++ b/docs/manual/loading.html
@@ -65,20 +65,27 @@
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
<a name="manual.loading.file"></a><a class="link" href="loading.html#manual.loading.file" title="Loading document from file"> Loading document from file</a>
</h3></div></div></div>
-<a name="xml_document::load_file"></a><p>
- The most common source of XML data is files; pugixml provides a separate
- function for loading XML document from file:
+<a name="xml_document::load_file"></a><a name="xml_document::load_file_wide"></a><p>
+ The most common source of XML data is files; pugixml provides dedicated functions
+ for loading XML document from file:
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">xml_parse_result</span> <span class="identifier">xml_document</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">load_file</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">char</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">path</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="identifier">options</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">parse_default</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">xml_encoding</span> <span class="identifier">encoding</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">encoding_auto</span><span class="special">);</span>
+<span class="identifier">xml_parse_result</span> <span class="identifier">xml_document</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">load_file</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">wchar_t</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">path</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="identifier">options</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">parse_default</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">xml_encoding</span> <span class="identifier">encoding</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">encoding_auto</span><span class="special">);</span>
</pre>
<p>
- This function accepts file path as its first argument, and also two optional
+ These functions accept file path as its first argument, and also two optional
arguments, which specify parsing options (see <a class="xref" href="loading.html#manual.loading.options" title="Parsing options"> Parsing options</a>) and
input data encoding (see <a class="xref" href="loading.html#manual.loading.encoding" title="Encodings"> Encodings</a>). The path has the target
operating system format, so it can be a relative or absolute one, it should
have the delimiters of target system, it should have the exact case if target
- file system is case-sensitive, etc. File path is passed to system file opening
- function as is.
+ file system is case-sensitive, etc.
+ </p>
+<p>
+ File path is passed to system file opening function as is in case of the
+ first function (which accepts <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">const</span>
+ <span class="keyword">char</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">path</span></code>); the second function either uses
+ a special file opening function if it is provided by the runtime library
+ or converts the path to UTF-8 and uses the system file opening function.
</p>
<p>
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">load_file</span></code> destroys the existing
@@ -88,20 +95,6 @@
(i.e. last successfully parsed position in the input file, if parsing fails).
See <a class="xref" href="loading.html#manual.loading.errors" title="Handling parsing errors"> Handling parsing errors</a> for error handling details.
</p>
-<div class="note"><table border="0" summary="Note">
-<tr>
-<td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../images/note.png"></td>
-<th align="left">Note</th>
-</tr>
-<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>
- As of version 0.9, there is no function for loading XML document from wide
- character path. Unfortunately, there is no portable way to do this; the
- version 1.0 will provide such function only for platforms with the corresponding
- functionality. You can use stream-loading functions as a workaround if
- your STL implementation can open file streams via <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">wchar_t</span></code>
- paths.
- </p></td></tr>
-</table></div>
<p>
This is an example of loading XML document from file (<a href="../samples/load_file.cpp" target="_top">samples/load_file.cpp</a>):
</p>
@@ -297,7 +290,7 @@
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
<a name="manual.loading.errors"></a><a class="link" href="loading.html#manual.loading.errors" title="Handling parsing errors"> Handling parsing errors</a>
</h3></div></div></div>
-<a name="xml_parse_result"></a><p>
+<a name="xml_parse_result"></a><a name="xml_parse_result::ctor"></a><p>
All document loading functions return the parsing result via <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">xml_parse_result</span></code> object. It contains parsing
status, the offset of last successfully parsed character from the beginning
of the source stream, and the encoding of the source stream:
@@ -308,6 +301,7 @@
<span class="identifier">ptrdiff_t</span> <span class="identifier">offset</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="identifier">xml_encoding</span> <span class="identifier">encoding</span><span class="special">;</span>
+ <span class="identifier">xml_parse_result</span><span class="special">();</span>
<span class="keyword">operator</span> <span class="keyword">bool</span><span class="special">()</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">char</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">description</span><span class="special">()</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="special">};</span>
diff --git a/docs/manual/saving.html b/docs/manual/saving.html
index e12b31d..584cb2c 100644
--- a/docs/manual/saving.html
+++ b/docs/manual/saving.html
@@ -56,35 +56,38 @@
For proper output, make sure all node and attribute names are set to meaningful
values.
</p>
-<div class="caution"><table border="0" summary="Caution">
-<tr>
-<td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Caution]" src="../images/caution.png"></td>
-<th align="left">Caution</th>
-</tr>
-<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>
- Currently the content of CDATA sections is not escaped, so CDATA sections
- with values that contain <code class="computeroutput"><span class="string">"]]&gt;"</span></code>
- will result in malformed document. This will be fixed in version 1.0.
- </p></td></tr>
-</table></div>
+<p>
+ CDATA sections with values that contain <code class="computeroutput"><span class="string">"]]&gt;"</span></code>
+ are split into several sections as follows: section with value <code class="computeroutput"><span class="string">"pre]]&gt;post"</span></code> is written as <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">&lt;![</span><span class="identifier">CDATA</span><span class="special">[</span><span class="identifier">pre</span><span class="special">]]]]&gt;&lt;![</span><span class="identifier">CDATA</span><span class="special">[&gt;</span><span class="identifier">post</span><span class="special">]]&gt;</span></code>.
+ While this alters the structure of the document (if you load the document after
+ saving it, there will be two CDATA sections instead of one), this is the only
+ way to escape CDATA contents.
+ </p>
<div class="section">
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">
<a name="manual.saving.file"></a><a class="link" href="saving.html#manual.saving.file" title="Saving document to a file"> Saving document to a file</a>
</h3></div></div></div>
-<a name="xml_document::save_file"></a><p>
- If you want to save the whole document to a file, you can use the following
- function:
+<a name="xml_document::save_file"></a><a name="xml_document::save_file_wide"></a><p>
+ If you want to save the whole document to a file, you can use one of the
+ following functions:
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">bool</span> <span class="identifier">xml_document</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">save_file</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">char</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">path</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">char_t</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">indent</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="string">"\t"</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="identifier">flags</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">format_default</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">xml_encoding</span> <span class="identifier">encoding</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">encoding_auto</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
+<span class="keyword">bool</span> <span class="identifier">xml_document</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">save_file</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">wchar_t</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">path</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">char_t</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">indent</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="string">"\t"</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">unsigned</span> <span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="identifier">flags</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">format_default</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">xml_encoding</span> <span class="identifier">encoding</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">encoding_auto</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
</pre>
<p>
- This function accepts file path as its first argument, and also three optional
+ These functions accept file path as its first argument, and also three optional
arguments, which specify indentation and other output options (see <a class="xref" href="saving.html#manual.saving.options" title="Output options"> Output options</a>)
and output data encoding (see <a class="xref" href="saving.html#manual.saving.encoding" title="Encodings"> Encodings</a>). The path has the target
operating system format, so it can be a relative or absolute one, it should
have the delimiters of target system, it should have the exact case if target
- file system is case-sensitive, etc. File path is passed to system file opening
- function as is.
+ file system is case-sensitive, etc.
+ </p>
+<p>
+ File path is passed to system file opening function as is in case of the
+ first function (which accepts <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">const</span>
+ <span class="keyword">char</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">path</span></code>); the second function either uses
+ a special file opening function if it is provided by the runtime library
+ or converts the path to UTF-8 and uses the system file opening function.
</p>
<a name="xml_writer_file"></a><p>
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">save_file</span></code> opens the target
@@ -96,19 +99,6 @@
handle as the only constructor argument and then calling <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">save</span></code>;
see <a class="xref" href="saving.html#manual.saving.writer" title="Saving document via writer interface"> Saving document via writer interface</a> for writer interface details.
</p>
-<div class="note"><table border="0" summary="Note">
-<tr>
-<td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../images/note.png"></td>
-<th align="left">Note</th>
-</tr>
-<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>
- As of version 0.9, there is no function for saving XML document to wide
- character paths. Unfortunately, there is no portable way to do this; the
- version 1.0 will provide such function only for platforms with the corresponding
- functionality. You can use stream-saving functions as a workaround if your
- STL implementation can open file streams via wchar_t paths.
- </p></td></tr>
-</table></div>
<p>
This is a simple example of saving XML document to file (<a href="../samples/save_file.cpp" target="_top">samples/save_file.cpp</a>):
</p>
diff --git a/docs/manual/xpath.html b/docs/manual/xpath.html
index 731a969..513bb90 100644
--- a/docs/manual/xpath.html
+++ b/docs/manual/xpath.html
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@
at tizag.com</a>, and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/" target="_top">the XPath
1.0 specification</a>.
</p>
+<p>
+ $$
+ </p>
<div class="note"><table border="0" summary="Note">
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../images/note.png"></td>
@@ -120,9 +123,11 @@
You can also create XPath nodes with one of tree constructors: the default
constructor, the constructor that takes node argument, and the constructor
that takes attribute and node arguments (in which case the attribute must
- belong to the attribute list of the node). However, usually you don't need
- to create your own XPath node objects, since they are returned to you via
- selection functions.
+ belong to the attribute list of the node). The constructor from <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">xml_node</span></code> is implicit, so you can usually
+ pass <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">xml_node</span></code> to functions
+ that expect <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">xpath_node</span></code>. Apart
+ from that you usually don't need to create your own XPath node objects, since
+ they are returned to you via selection functions.
</p>
<a name="xpath_node_set"></a><p>
XPath expressions operate not on single nodes, but instead on node sets.
@@ -309,20 +314,21 @@
<a name="xpath_query::evaluate_boolean"></a><a name="xpath_query::evaluate_number"></a><a name="xpath_query::evaluate_string"></a><a name="xpath_query::evaluate_node_set"></a><p>
You can evaluate the query using one of the following functions:
</p>
-<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">bool</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_query</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">evaluate_boolean</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">xml_node</span><span class="special">&amp;</span> <span class="identifier">n</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
-<span class="keyword">double</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_query</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">evaluate_number</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">xml_node</span><span class="special">&amp;</span> <span class="identifier">n</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
-<span class="identifier">string_t</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_query</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">evaluate_string</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">xml_node</span><span class="special">&amp;</span> <span class="identifier">n</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
-<span class="identifier">xpath_node_set</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_query</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">evaluate_node_set</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">xml_node</span><span class="special">&amp;</span> <span class="identifier">n</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
+<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">bool</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_query</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">evaluate_boolean</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_node</span><span class="special">&amp;</span> <span class="identifier">n</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
+<span class="keyword">double</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_query</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">evaluate_number</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_node</span><span class="special">&amp;</span> <span class="identifier">n</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
+<span class="identifier">string_t</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_query</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">evaluate_string</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_node</span><span class="special">&amp;</span> <span class="identifier">n</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
+<span class="identifier">xpath_node_set</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_query</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">evaluate_node_set</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_node</span><span class="special">&amp;</span> <span class="identifier">n</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">;</span>
</pre>
<p>
- All functions take the context node as an argument, compute the expression
- and return the result, converted to the requested type. By XPath specification,
- value of any type can be converted to boolean, number or string value, but
- no type other than node set can be converted to node set. Because of this,
- <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">evaluate_boolean</span></code>, <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">evaluate_number</span></code> and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">evaluate_string</span></code>
- always return a result, but <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">evaluate_node_set</span></code>
- throws an <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">xpath_exception</span></code>
- if the return type is not node set.
+ $$ exception, evaluate_string nostl All functions take the context node as
+ an argument, compute the expression and return the result, converted to the
+ requested type. By XPath specification, value of any type can be converted
+ to boolean, number or string value, but no type other than node set can be
+ converted to node set. Because of this, <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">evaluate_boolean</span></code>,
+ <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">evaluate_number</span></code> and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">evaluate_string</span></code> always return a result,
+ but <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">evaluate_node_set</span></code> throws
+ an <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">xpath_exception</span></code> if the
+ return type is not node set.
</p>
<div class="note"><table border="0" summary="Note">
<tr>
@@ -370,7 +376,7 @@
<a name="manual.xpath.errors"></a><a class="link" href="xpath.html#manual.xpath.errors" title="Error handling"> Error handling</a>
</h3></div></div></div>
<a name="xpath_exception"></a><a name="xpath_exception::what"></a><p>
- As of version 0.9, all XPath errors result in thrown exceptions. The errors
+ $$ As of version 0.9, all XPath errors result in thrown exceptions. The errors
can arise during expression compilation or node set evaluation. In both cases,
an <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">xpath_exception</span></code> object
is thrown. This is an exception object that implements <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">exception</span></code>
@@ -379,8 +385,8 @@
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">virtual</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">char</span><span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">xpath_exception</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">what</span><span class="special">()</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">throw</span><span class="special">();</span>
</pre>
<p>
- This function returns the error message. Currently it is impossible to get
- the exact place where query compilation failed. This functionality, along
+ $$ This function returns the error message. Currently it is impossible to
+ get the exact place where query compilation failed. This functionality, along
with optional error handling without exceptions, will be available in version
1.0.
</p>
@@ -464,7 +470,7 @@
</li>
</ul></div>
<p>
- Some of these incompatibilities will be fixed in version 1.0.
+ $$ Some of these incompatibilities will be fixed in version 1.0.
</p>
</div>
</div>