Name

xtree_doc — returns an entity object created from an XML document

Synopsis

xtree_doc ( in document varchar ,
in parser_mode integer ,
in base_uri varchar ,
in content_encoding varchar ,
in content_language varchar ,
in dtd_validator_config varchar );

Description

This parses the argument, which is expected to be a well formed XML fragment and returns a parse tree as a special memory-resident object. While xper_doc creates some disk-resident data structure, xtree_doc() will work faster but it may require more memory. You may wish to use xtree_doc for small documents (e.g. less than 5 megabytes and xper_doc for larger documents.

Parameters

document

well formed XML or HTML document

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)

base_uri

in HTML parser mode change all absolute references to relative from given base_uri (http://<host>:<port>/<path>)

content_encoding

string with content encoding type of <document>; 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>; 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 empty string meaning that DTD validator should be fully disabled. See Configuration Options of the DTD Validator for details.

Return Types

XML entity with underlying parse tree of source document; the tree will be a memory-resident structure of nested heterogeneous vectors.

Examples

Example24.537.xtree_doc

declare tree any;

tree := xtree_doc (file_to_string ('doc.html'), 1,
                'http://localhost.localdomain/', 'ISO');
...
tree := xtree_doc (file_to_string ('doc.xml'));