Name
document-literal — Parses given XML text and returns the resulting XML data.
Synopsis
node-set document-literal ( |
document_text varchar , |
| cache_uri varchar , | |
| parser_mode integer , | |
| content_encoding varchar , | |
| content_language varchar , | |
dtd_validator_config varchar
); |
Description
The function tries to parse an XML text as if it is obtained
from a location specified by cache_uri . On success, it returns
the root entity of the "XML Tree" document; the result is identical
to the entity created by xtree_doc() Virtuoso/PL function.
When XPath processor parses a document, it saves it in a
temporary cache. If a cached document is accessed again then no
actual retrieval or parsing is made and a cached value is returned.
The cache persists till the end of execution of a XPath query or
till the end of the XSLT transformation if the XPath expression is
a part of XSLT stylesheet. The cache_uri specifies the URI used as a
key if the parsed document is cached. If cache_uri is not specified or the
specified value is equal to an empty string, then no caching is
performed. If the specified cache_uri is not equal to an empty
string then it should distinct from URIs of other XML resources
that are sources of the XPath query, to prevent confusion.
The cache_uri is also
used by XML parser as a base URI to resolve relative URIs of
external entities, so it is a good idea to specify some absolute
URI if the parsed text is not a "standalone" document.
The document_text
argument may be a sequence, not a single string. In this case a
node-set is returned as if document-literal is applied to string-value of
every element of the sequence. It is obvious that caching should
not be used if there's a chance that the sequence may have more
than one distinct element.
Note that the document-literal is
not a part of XPATH 1.0 or XQuery 1.0 standard library.
Parameters
document_text
well formed XML or HTML text
cache_uri
The URI that is used to resolve all relative URIs (i.e. to convert them into absolute in order to locate and load subdocuments) and to change 'local' absolute references to relative when in HTML mode.
parser_mode
0, 1 or 2; 0 - XML parser mode, 1 - HTML parser mode, 2 - 'dirty HTML' mode (with quiet recovery after any syntax error)
content_encoding
string with content encoding type of document_text ; valid are 'ASCII',
'ISO', 'UTF8', 'ISO8859-1', 'LATIN-1' etc., defaults are 'UTF-8'
for XML mode and 'LATIN-1' for HTML mode.
content_language
string with language tag of content of document_text ; valid names are
listed in IETF RFC 1766, default is 'x-any' (it means 'mix of words
from various human languages')
dtd_validator_config
configuration string for DTD validator, default is "Include=ERROR IdCache=ENABLE" meaning that DTD should be read but validation should be disabled; errors on including subdocuments should be reported as errors and thus should abort the processing; a dictionary of element's IDs should be created in order to support XQuery 'pointer operator'. See Configuration Options of the DTD Validator for details.
Return Types
Node-set
Errors
Table24.141.Errors signalled by document-literal()
| SQLState | Error Code | Error Text | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| XP001 | XPF15 | Too many arguments passed to XPATH function document-literal() | The number of parameters may vary only from 1 to 6. |
Examples
Example24.581.Simple reading of a standalone XML document
Read a short document from string
document-literal("
<html><body><p>Hello
</p></body></html>)
Example24.582.Simple reading of a non-standalone document
Read a non-standalone document from local mirror but access its subdocuments as if it is retrieved directly from 'http://www.example.com/sales/prices.xml', so e.g. the subdocument that is referenced as 'termsandconditions.xml' is retrieved from 'http://www.example.com/sales/termsandconditions.xml'
document-literal('
<!DOCTYPE price-list SYSTEM "http://www.example.com/dtd/sales.dtd" [
<!ENTITY t_and_c SYSTEM "termsandconditions.xml">
<!ENTITY prices_oct2002 SYSTEM "prices/2002/oct.xml">
]>
<price-list>
&t_and_c;
&prices_oct2002;
</price-list>
',
'http://webcache.localdomain/examplesales/prices.xml' )