xsltutils: set of utilities for the XSLT engine

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xsltutils

xsltutils - set of utilities for the XSLT engine

interfaces for the utilities module of the XSLT engine. things like message handling, profiling, and other generally useful routines.

Author(s): Daniel Veillard

Synopsis

#define IS_XSLT_ELEM;
#define IS_XSLT_NAME;
#define IS_XSLT_REAL_NODE;
#define XSLT_STRANGE;
#define XSLT_TIMESTAMP_TICS_PER_SEC;
#define XSLT_TODO;
#define XSLT_TRACE;
typedef enum xsltDebugStatusCodes;
typedef enum xsltDebugTraceCodes;
int	xslAddCall			(xsltTemplatePtr templ, 
					 xmlNodePtr source);
void	xslDropCall			(void);
typedef int xsltAddCallCallback		(xsltTemplatePtr templ, 
					 xmlNodePtr source);
void	xsltCalibrateAdjust		(long delta);
xmlXPathObjectPtr *	xsltComputeSortResult	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
						 xmlNodePtr sort);
xsltDebugTraceCodes	xsltDebugGetDefaultTrace	(void);
void	xsltDebugSetDefaultTrace	(xsltDebugTraceCodes val);
void	xsltDefaultSortFunction		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xmlNodePtr * sorts, 
					 int nbsorts);
void	xsltDoSortFunction		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xmlNodePtr * sorts, 
					 int nbsorts);
void	xsltDocumentSortFunction	(xmlNodeSetPtr list);
typedef void xsltDropCallCallback		(void);
const xmlChar *	xsltGetCNsProp		(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
					 xmlNodePtr node, 
					 const xmlChar * name, 
					 const xmlChar * nameSpace);
int	xsltGetDebuggerStatus		(void);
xmlChar *	xsltGetNsProp		(xmlNodePtr node, 
					 const xmlChar * name, 
					 const xmlChar * nameSpace);
xmlDocPtr	xsltGetProfileInformation	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt);
const xmlChar *	xsltGetQNameURI		(xmlNodePtr node, 
					 xmlChar ** name);
const xmlChar *	xsltGetQNameURI2	(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
					 xmlNodePtr node, 
					 const xmlChar ** name);
int	xsltGetUTF8Char			(const unsigned char * utf, 
					 int * len);
typedef void xsltHandleDebuggerCallback	(xmlNodePtr cur, 
					 xmlNodePtr node, 
					 xsltTemplatePtr templ, 
					 xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt);
void	xsltMessage			(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xmlNodePtr node, 
					 xmlNodePtr inst);
void	xsltPrintErrorContext		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
					 xmlNodePtr node);
void	xsltSaveProfiling		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 FILE * output);
int	xsltSaveResultTo		(xmlOutputBufferPtr buf, 
					 xmlDocPtr result, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style);
int	xsltSaveResultToFd		(int fd, 
					 xmlDocPtr result, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style);
int	xsltSaveResultToFile		(FILE * file, 
					 xmlDocPtr result, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style);
int	xsltSaveResultToFilename	(const char * URL, 
					 xmlDocPtr result, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
					 int compression);
int	xsltSaveResultToString		(xmlChar ** doc_txt_ptr, 
					 int * doc_txt_len, 
					 xmlDocPtr result, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style);
void	xsltSetCtxtLocaleHandlers	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xsltNewLocaleFunc newLocale, 
					 xsltFreeLocaleFunc freeLocale, 
					 xsltGenSortKeyFunc genSortKey);
int	xsltSetCtxtParseOptions		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 int options);
void	xsltSetCtxtSortFunc		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xsltSortFunc handler);
int	xsltSetDebuggerCallbacks	(int no, 
					 void * block);
void	xsltSetDebuggerStatus		(int value);
void	xsltSetGenericDebugFunc		(void * ctx, 
					 xmlGenericErrorFunc handler);
void	xsltSetGenericErrorFunc		(void * ctx, 
					 xmlGenericErrorFunc handler);
void	xsltSetSortFunc			(xsltSortFunc handler);
void	xsltSetTransformErrorFunc	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 void * ctx, 
					 xmlGenericErrorFunc handler);
const xmlChar *	xsltSplitQName		(xmlDictPtr dict, 
					 const xmlChar * name, 
					 const xmlChar ** prefix);
long	xsltTimestamp			(void);
void	xsltTransformError		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
					 xmlNodePtr node, 
					 const char * msg, 
					 ... ...);
xmlXPathCompExprPtr	xsltXPathCompile	(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
						 const xmlChar * str);
xmlXPathCompExprPtr	xsltXPathCompileFlags	(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
						 const xmlChar * str, 
						 int flags);

Description

Details

Macro IS_XSLT_ELEM

#define IS_XSLT_ELEM;

Checks that the element pertains to XSLT namespace.

Macro IS_XSLT_NAME

#define IS_XSLT_NAME;

Checks the value of an element in XSLT namespace.

Macro IS_XSLT_REAL_NODE

#define IS_XSLT_REAL_NODE;

Check that a node is a 'real' one: document, element, text or attribute.

Macro XSLT_STRANGE

#define XSLT_STRANGE;

Macro to flag that a problem was detected internally.

Macro XSLT_TIMESTAMP_TICS_PER_SEC

#define XSLT_TIMESTAMP_TICS_PER_SEC;

Sampling precision for profiling

Macro XSLT_TODO

#define XSLT_TODO;

Macro to flag unimplemented blocks.

Macro XSLT_TRACE

#define XSLT_TRACE;

Control the type of xsl debugtrace messages emitted.

Enum xsltDebugStatusCodes

enum xsltDebugStatusCodes {
    XSLT_DEBUG_NONE = 0 /* no debugging allowed */
    XSLT_DEBUG_INIT = 1
    XSLT_DEBUG_STEP = 2
    XSLT_DEBUG_STEPOUT = 3
    XSLT_DEBUG_NEXT = 4
    XSLT_DEBUG_STOP = 5
    XSLT_DEBUG_CONT = 6
    XSLT_DEBUG_RUN = 7
    XSLT_DEBUG_RUN_RESTART = 8
    XSLT_DEBUG_QUIT = 9
};

Enum xsltDebugTraceCodes

enum xsltDebugTraceCodes {
    XSLT_TRACE_ALL = -1
    XSLT_TRACE_NONE = 0
    XSLT_TRACE_COPY_TEXT = 1
    XSLT_TRACE_PROCESS_NODE = 2
    XSLT_TRACE_APPLY_TEMPLATE = 4
    XSLT_TRACE_COPY = 8
    XSLT_TRACE_COMMENT = 16
    XSLT_TRACE_PI = 32
    XSLT_TRACE_COPY_OF = 64
    XSLT_TRACE_VALUE_OF = 128
    XSLT_TRACE_CALL_TEMPLATE = 256
    XSLT_TRACE_APPLY_TEMPLATES = 512
    XSLT_TRACE_CHOOSE = 1024
    XSLT_TRACE_IF = 2048
    XSLT_TRACE_FOR_EACH = 4096
    XSLT_TRACE_STRIP_SPACES = 8192
    XSLT_TRACE_TEMPLATES = 16384
    XSLT_TRACE_KEYS = 32768
    XSLT_TRACE_VARIABLES = 65536
};

Function type xsltAddCallCallback

int	xsltAddCallCallback		(xsltTemplatePtr templ, 
					 xmlNodePtr source)

`templ`:
`source`:
`Returns`:

Function type xsltDropCallCallback

void	xsltDropCallCallback		(void)

Function type xsltHandleDebuggerCallback

void	xsltHandleDebuggerCallback	(xmlNodePtr cur, 
					 xmlNodePtr node, 
					 xsltTemplatePtr templ, 
					 xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt)

`cur`:
`node`:
`templ`:
`ctxt`:

Variable xslDebugStatus

int xslDebugStatus;

Variable xsltGenericDebug

xmlGenericErrorFunc xsltGenericDebug;

Variable xsltGenericDebugContext

void * xsltGenericDebugContext;

Variable xsltGenericError

xmlGenericErrorFunc xsltGenericError;

Variable xsltGenericErrorContext

void * xsltGenericErrorContext;

xslAddCall ()

int	xslAddCall			(xsltTemplatePtr templ, 
					 xmlNodePtr source)

Add template "call" to call stack

`templ`:	current template being applied
`source`:	the source node being processed
`Returns`:	: 1 on sucess 0 otherwise an error may be printed if WITH_XSLT_DEBUG_BREAKPOINTS is defined

xsltCalibrateAdjust ()

void	xsltCalibrateAdjust		(long delta)

Used for to correct the calibration for xsltTimestamp()

delta: a negative dealy value found

xsltComputeSortResult ()

xmlXPathObjectPtr *	xsltComputeSortResult	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
						 xmlNodePtr sort)

reorder the current node list accordingly to the set of sorting requirement provided by the array of nodes.

`ctxt`:	a XSLT process context
`sort`:	node list
`Returns`:	a ordered XPath nodeset or NULL in case of error.

xsltDebugGetDefaultTrace ()

xsltDebugTraceCodes	xsltDebugGetDefaultTrace	(void)

Get the current default debug tracing level mask

Returns: the current default debug tracing level mask

xsltDebugSetDefaultTrace ()

void	xsltDebugSetDefaultTrace	(xsltDebugTraceCodes val)

Set the default debug tracing level mask

val: tracing level mask

xsltDefaultSortFunction ()

void	xsltDefaultSortFunction		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xmlNodePtr * sorts, 
					 int nbsorts)

reorder the current node list accordingly to the set of sorting requirement provided by the arry of nodes.

`ctxt`:	a XSLT process context
`sorts`:	array of sort nodes
`nbsorts`:	the number of sorts in the array

xsltDoSortFunction ()

void	xsltDoSortFunction		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xmlNodePtr * sorts, 
					 int nbsorts)

reorder the current node list accordingly to the set of sorting requirement provided by the arry of nodes. This is a wrapper function, the actual function used is specified using xsltSetCtxtSortFunc() to set the context specific sort function, or xsltSetSortFunc() to set the global sort function. If a sort function is set on the context, this will get called. Otherwise the global sort function is called.

`ctxt`:	a XSLT process context
`sorts`:	array of sort nodes
`nbsorts`:	the number of sorts in the array

xsltDocumentSortFunction ()

void	xsltDocumentSortFunction	(xmlNodeSetPtr list)

reorder the current node list @list accordingly to the document order This function is slow, obsolete and should not be used anymore.

list: the node set

xsltGetCNsProp ()

const xmlChar *	xsltGetCNsProp		(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
					 xmlNodePtr node, 
					 const xmlChar * name, 
					 const xmlChar * nameSpace)

Similar to xmlGetNsProp() but with a slightly different semantic Search and get the value of an attribute associated to a node This attribute has to be anchored in the namespace specified, or has no namespace and the element is in that namespace. This does the entity substitution. This function looks in DTD attribute declaration for #FIXED or default declaration values unless DTD use has been turned off.

`style`:	the stylesheet
`node`:	the node
`name`:	the attribute name
`nameSpace`:	the URI of the namespace
`Returns`:	the attribute value or NULL if not found. The string is allocated in the stylesheet dictionary.

xsltGetDebuggerStatus ()

int	xsltGetDebuggerStatus		(void)

Get xslDebugStatus.

Returns: the value of xslDebugStatus.

xsltGetNsProp ()

xmlChar *	xsltGetNsProp		(xmlNodePtr node, 
					 const xmlChar * name, 
					 const xmlChar * nameSpace)

`node`:	the node
`name`:	the attribute name
`nameSpace`:	the URI of the namespace
`Returns`:	the attribute value or NULL if not found. It's up to the caller to free the memory.

xsltGetProfileInformation ()

xmlDocPtr	xsltGetProfileInformation	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt)

This function should be called after the transformation completed to extract template processing profiling information if available. The information is returned as an XML document tree like <?xml version="1.0"?> <profile> <template rank="1" match="*" name="" mode="" calls="6" time="48" average="8"/> <template rank="2" match="item2|item3" name="" mode="" calls="10" time="30" average="3"/> <template rank="3" match="item1" name="" mode="" calls="5" time="17" average="3"/> </profile> The caller will need to free up the returned tree with xmlFreeDoc()

`ctxt`:	a transformation context
`Returns`:	the xmlDocPtr corresponding to the result or NULL if not available.

xsltGetQNameURI ()

const xmlChar *	xsltGetQNameURI		(xmlNodePtr node, 
					 xmlChar ** name)

This function analyzes @name, if the name contains a prefix, the function seaches the associated namespace in scope for it. It will also replace @name value with the NCName, the old value being freed. Errors in the prefix lookup are signalled by setting @name to NULL. NOTE: the namespace returned is a pointer to the place where it is defined and hence has the same lifespan as the document holding it.

`node`:	the node holding the QName
`name`:	pointer to the initial QName value
`Returns`:	the namespace URI if there is a prefix, or NULL if @name is not prefixed.

xsltGetQNameURI2 ()

const xmlChar *	xsltGetQNameURI2	(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
					 xmlNodePtr node, 
					 const xmlChar ** name)

This function is similar to xsltGetQNameURI, but is used when @name is a dictionary entry.

`style`:	stylesheet pointer
`node`:	the node holding the QName
`name`:	pointer to the initial QName value
`Returns`:	the namespace URI if there is a prefix, or NULL if @name is not prefixed.

xsltGetUTF8Char ()

int	xsltGetUTF8Char			(const unsigned char * utf, 
					 int * len)

Read one UTF8 Char from @utf Function copied from libxml2 xmlGetUTF8Char() ... to discard ultimately and use the original API

`utf`:	a sequence of UTF-8 encoded bytes
`len`:	a pointer to @bytes len
`Returns`:	the char value or -1 in case of error and update @len with the number of bytes used

xsltMessage ()

void	xsltMessage			(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xmlNodePtr node, 
					 xmlNodePtr inst)

Process and xsl:message construct

`ctxt`:	an XSLT processing context
`node`:	The current node
`inst`:	The node containing the message instruction

xsltPrintErrorContext ()

void	xsltPrintErrorContext		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
					 xmlNodePtr node)

Display the context of an error.

`ctxt`:	the transformation context
`style`:	the stylesheet
`node`:	the current node being processed

xsltSaveProfiling ()

void	xsltSaveProfiling		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 FILE * output)

Save the profiling information on @output

`ctxt`:	an XSLT context
`output`:	a FILE * for saving the information

xsltSaveResultTo ()

int	xsltSaveResultTo		(xmlOutputBufferPtr buf, 
					 xmlDocPtr result, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style)

Save the result @result obtained by applying the @style stylesheet to an I/O output channel @buf

`buf`:	an output buffer
`result`:	the result xmlDocPtr
`style`:	the stylesheet
`Returns`:	the number of byte written or -1 in case of failure.

xsltSaveResultToFd ()

int	xsltSaveResultToFd		(int fd, 
					 xmlDocPtr result, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style)

Save the result @result obtained by applying the @style stylesheet to an open file descriptor This does not close the descriptor.

`fd`:	a file descriptor
`result`:	the result xmlDocPtr
`style`:	the stylesheet
`Returns`:	the number of bytes written or -1 in case of failure.

xsltSaveResultToFile ()

int	xsltSaveResultToFile		(FILE * file, 
					 xmlDocPtr result, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style)

Save the result @result obtained by applying the @style stylesheet to an open FILE * I/O. This does not close the FILE @file

`file`:	a FILE * I/O
`result`:	the result xmlDocPtr
`style`:	the stylesheet
`Returns`:	the number of bytes written or -1 in case of failure.

xsltSaveResultToFilename ()

int	xsltSaveResultToFilename	(const char * URL, 
					 xmlDocPtr result, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
					 int compression)

Save the result @result obtained by applying the @style stylesheet to a file or @URL

`URL`:	a filename or URL
`result`:	the result xmlDocPtr
`style`:	the stylesheet
`compression`:	the compression factor (0 - 9 included)
`Returns`:	the number of byte written or -1 in case of failure.

xsltSaveResultToString ()

int	xsltSaveResultToString		(xmlChar ** doc_txt_ptr, 
					 int * doc_txt_len, 
					 xmlDocPtr result, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style)

Save the result @result obtained by applying the @style stylesheet to a new allocated string.

`doc_txt_ptr`:	Memory pointer for allocated XML text
`doc_txt_len`:	Length of the generated XML text
`result`:	the result xmlDocPtr
`style`:	the stylesheet
`Returns`:	0 in case of success and -1 in case of error

xsltSetCtxtLocaleHandlers ()

void	xsltSetCtxtLocaleHandlers	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xsltNewLocaleFunc newLocale, 
					 xsltFreeLocaleFunc freeLocale, 
					 xsltGenSortKeyFunc genSortKey)

Set the locale handlers.

`ctxt`:	an XSLT transform context
`newLocale`:	locale constructor
`freeLocale`:	locale destructor
`genSortKey`:	sort key generator

xsltSetCtxtParseOptions ()

int	xsltSetCtxtParseOptions		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 int options)

Change the default parser option passed by the XSLT engine to the parser when using document() loading.

`ctxt`:	a XSLT process context
`options`:	a combination of libxml2 xmlParserOption
`Returns`:	the previous options or -1 in case of error

xsltSetCtxtSortFunc ()

void	xsltSetCtxtSortFunc		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xsltSortFunc handler)

DEPRECATED: Use xsltSetCtxtLocaleHandlers. Function to set the handler for XSLT sorting for the specified context. If the handler is NULL, then the global sort function will be called

`ctxt`:	a XSLT process context
`handler`:	the new handler function

xsltSetDebuggerCallbacks ()

int	xsltSetDebuggerCallbacks	(int no, 
					 void * block)

This function allow to plug a debugger into the XSLT library @block points to a block of memory containing the address of @no callback routines.

`no`:	number of callbacks
`block`:	the block of callbacks
`Returns`:	0 in case of success and -1 in case of error

xsltSetDebuggerStatus ()

void	xsltSetDebuggerStatus		(int value)

This function sets the value of xslDebugStatus.

value: the value to be set

xsltSetGenericDebugFunc ()

void	xsltSetGenericDebugFunc		(void * ctx, 
					 xmlGenericErrorFunc handler)

Function to reset the handler and the error context for out of context error messages. This simply means that @handler will be called for subsequent error messages while not parsing or validating. And @ctx will be passed as first argument to @handler One can simply force messages to be emitted to another FILE * than stderr by setting @ctx to this file handle and @handler to NULL.

`ctx`:	the new error handling context
`handler`:	the new handler function

xsltSetGenericErrorFunc ()

void	xsltSetGenericErrorFunc		(void * ctx, 
					 xmlGenericErrorFunc handler)

Function to reset the handler and the error context for out of context error messages. This simply means that @handler will be called for subsequent error messages while not parsing nor validating. And @ctx will be passed as first argument to @handler One can simply force messages to be emitted to another FILE * than stderr by setting @ctx to this file handle and @handler to NULL.

`ctx`:	the new error handling context
`handler`:	the new handler function

xsltSetSortFunc ()

void	xsltSetSortFunc			(xsltSortFunc handler)

DEPRECATED: Use xsltSetCtxtLocaleHandlers. Function to reset the global handler for XSLT sorting. If the handler is NULL, the default sort function will be used.

handler: the new handler function

xsltSetTransformErrorFunc ()

void	xsltSetTransformErrorFunc	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 void * ctx, 
					 xmlGenericErrorFunc handler)

Function to reset the handler and the error context for out of context error messages specific to a given XSLT transromation. This simply means that @handler will be called for subsequent error messages while running the transformation.

`ctxt`:	the XSLT transformation context
`ctx`:	the new error handling context
`handler`:	the new handler function

xsltSplitQName ()

const xmlChar *	xsltSplitQName		(xmlDictPtr dict, 
					 const xmlChar * name, 
					 const xmlChar ** prefix)

Split QNames into prefix and local names, both allocated from a dictionary.

`dict`:	a dictionary
`name`:	the full QName
`prefix`:	the return value
`Returns`:	the localname or NULL in case of error.

xsltTimestamp ()

long	xsltTimestamp			(void)

Used for gathering profiling data

Returns: the number of tenth of milliseconds since the beginning of the profiling

xsltTransformError ()

void	xsltTransformError		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
					 xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
					 xmlNodePtr node, 
					 const char * msg, 
					 ... ...)

Display and format an error messages, gives file, line, position and extra parameters, will use the specific transformation context if available

`ctxt`:	an XSLT transformation context
`style`:	the XSLT stylesheet used
`node`:	the current node in the stylesheet
`msg`:	the message to display/transmit
`...`:	extra parameters for the message display

xsltXPathCompile ()

xmlXPathCompExprPtr	xsltXPathCompile	(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
						 const xmlChar * str)

Compile an XPath expression

`style`:	the stylesheet
`str`:	the XPath expression
`Returns`:	the xmlXPathCompExprPtr resulting from the compilation or NULL. the caller has to free the object.

xsltXPathCompileFlags ()

xmlXPathCompExprPtr	xsltXPathCompileFlags	(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
						 const xmlChar * str, 
						 int flags)

Compile an XPath expression

`style`:	the stylesheet
`str`:	the XPath expression
`flags`:	extra compilation flags to pass down to libxml2 XPath
`Returns`:	the xmlXPathCompExprPtr resulting from the compilation or NULL. the caller has to free the object.