#include <wx/xml/xml.h>

Inheritance diagram for wxXmlDocument:

Detailed Description

This class holds XML data/document as parsed by XML parser in the root node.

wxXmlDocument internally uses the expat library which comes with wxWidgets to parse the given stream.

A wxXmlDocument is in fact a list of wxXmlNode organised into a structure that reflects the XML tree being represented by the document.

Note: Ownership is passed to the XML tree as each wxXmlNode is added to it, and this has two implications. Firstly, the wxXmlDocument takes responsibility for deleting the node so the user should not delete it; and secondly, a wxXmlNode must always be created on the heap and never on the stack.

A simple example of using XML classes is:

wxXmlDocument doc;
if (!doc.Load("myfile.xml"))
    return false;
 
// Start processing the XML file.
if (doc.GetRoot()->GetName() != "myroot-node")
    return false;
 
// Examine prologue.
wxXmlNode *prolog = doc.GetDocumentNode()->GetChildren();
while (prolog)
{
 
    if (prolog->GetType() == wxXML_PI_NODE && prolog->GetName() == "target")
    {
 
        // Process Process Instruction (PI) contents.
        wxString pi = prolog->GetContent();
 
        ...
 
    }
}
 
wxXmlNode *child = doc.GetRoot()->GetChildren();
while (child)
{
    if (child->GetName() == "tag1")
    {
        // Process text enclosed by tag1/tag1.
        wxString content = child->GetNodeContent();
 
        ...
 
        // Process attributes of tag1.
        wxString attrvalue1 =
            child->GetAttribute("attr1", "default-value");
        wxString attrvalue2 =
            child->GetAttribute("attr2", "default-value");
 
        ...
    }
    else if (child->GetName() == "tag2")
    {
 
        // Process tag2 ...
    }
 
    child = child->GetNext();
}

Note that if you want to preserve the original formatting of the loaded file including whitespaces and indentation, you need to turn off whitespace-only textnode removal and automatic indentation. For example:

wxXmlDocument doc;
doc.Load("myfile.xml", "UTF-8", wxXMLDOC_KEEP_WHITESPACE_NODES);
 
// myfile2.xml will be identical to myfile.xml saving it this way:
doc.Save("myfile2.xml", wxXML_NO_INDENTATION);

Using default parameters, you will get a reformatted document which in general is different from the original loaded content:

wxXmlDocument doc;
doc.Load("myfile.xml");
doc.Save("myfile2.xml");  // myfile2.xml != myfile.xml

wxXmlDocument can also be used to create documents. The following code gives an example of creating a simple document with two nested element nodes, the second of which has an attribute, and a text node. It also demonstrates how to write the resulting output to a wxString:

// Create a document and add the root node.
wxXmlDocument xmlDoc;
 
wxXmlNode* root = new wxXmlNode(NULL, wxXML_ELEMENT_NODE, "Root");
xmlDoc.SetRoot(root);
 
// Add some XML.
wxXmlNode* library = new wxXmlNode (root, wxXML_ELEMENT_NODE, "Library");
library->AddAttribute("type", "CrossPlatformList");
wxXmlNode* name = new wxXmlNode(library, wxXML_ELEMENT_NODE, "Name");
name->AddChild(new wxXmlNode(wxXML_TEXT_NODE, "", "wxWidgets"));
 
// Write the output to a wxString.
wxStringOutputStream stream;
xmlDoc.Save(stream);

This will produce a document that looks something like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Root>
  <Library type="CrossPlatformList">
    <Name>wxWidgets</Name>
  </Library>
</Root>

If the root name value of the DOCTYPE is set, either by loading a file with a DOCTYPE declaration or by setting it directly with the SetDoctype member, then a DOCTYPE declaration will be added immediately after the XML declaration.

Library: wxXML

Category: XML

See also: wxXmlNode, wxXmlAttribute, wxXmlDoctype

Public Member Functions
	wxXmlDocument ()
	Default constructor. More...

	wxXmlDocument (const wxXmlDocument &doc)
	Copy constructor. More...

	wxXmlDocument (const wxString &filename, const wxString &encoding="UTF-8")
	Loads the given filename using the given encoding. More...

	wxXmlDocument (wxInputStream &stream, const wxString &encoding="UTF-8")
	Loads the XML document from given stream using the given encoding. More...

virtual	~wxXmlDocument ()
	Virtual destructor. More...

void	AppendToProlog (wxXmlNode *node)
	Appends a Process Instruction or Comment node to the document prologue. More...

wxXmlNode *	DetachDocumentNode ()
	Detaches the document node and returns it. More...

wxXmlNode *	DetachRoot ()
	Detaches the root entity node and returns it. More...

wxString	GetEncoding () const
	Returns encoding of in-memory representation of the document (same as passed to Load() or constructor, defaults to UTF-8). More...

const wxString &	GetFileEncoding () const
	Returns encoding of document (may be empty). More...

const wxXmlDoctype &	GetDoctype () const
	Returns the DOCTYPE declaration data for the document. More...

wxTextFileType	GetFileType () const
	Returns the output line ending format used for documents. More...

wxString	GetEOL () const
	Returns the output line ending string used for documents. More...

wxXmlNode *	GetDocumentNode () const
	Returns the document node of the document. More...

wxXmlNode *	GetRoot () const
	Returns the root element node of the document. More...

const wxString &	GetVersion () const
	Returns the version of document. More...

bool	IsOk () const
	Returns true if the document has been loaded successfully. More...

virtual bool	Load (const wxString &filename, const wxString &encoding="UTF-8", int flags=wxXMLDOC_NONE)
	Parses filename as an xml document and loads its data. More...

virtual bool	Load (wxInputStream &stream, const wxString &encoding="UTF-8", int flags=wxXMLDOC_NONE)
	Like Load(const wxString&, const wxString&, int) but takes the data from given input stream. More...

virtual bool	Save (const wxString &filename, int indentstep=2) const
	Saves XML tree creating a file named with given string. More...

virtual bool	Save (wxOutputStream &stream, int indentstep=2) const
	Saves XML tree in the given output stream. More...

void	SetDocumentNode (wxXmlNode *node)
	Sets the document node of this document. More...

void	SetEncoding (const wxString &enc)
	Sets the encoding of the document. More...

void	SetFileEncoding (const wxString &encoding)
	Sets the encoding of the file which will be used to save the document. More...

void	SetDoctype (const wxXmlDoctype &doctype)
	Sets the data which will appear in the DOCTYPE declaration when the document is saved. More...

void	SetFileType (wxTextFileType fileType)
	Sets the output line ending formats when the document is saved. More...

void	SetRoot (wxXmlNode *node)
	Sets the root element node of this document. More...

void	SetVersion (const wxString &version)
	Sets the version of the XML file which will be used to save the document. More...

wxXmlDocument &	operator= (const wxXmlDocument &doc)
	Deep copies the given document. More...

Public Member Functions inherited from wxObject
	wxObject ()
	Default ctor; initializes to NULL the internal reference data. More...

	wxObject (const wxObject &other)
	Copy ctor. More...

virtual	~wxObject ()
	Destructor. More...

virtual wxClassInfo *	GetClassInfo () const
	This virtual function is redefined for every class that requires run-time type information, when using the wxDECLARE_CLASS macro (or similar). More...

wxObjectRefData *	GetRefData () const
	Returns the wxObject::m_refData pointer, i.e. the data referenced by this object. More...

bool	IsKindOf (const wxClassInfo *info) const
	Determines whether this class is a subclass of (or the same class as) the given class. More...

bool	IsSameAs (const wxObject &obj) const
	Returns true if this object has the same data pointer as obj. More...

void	Ref (const wxObject &clone)
	Makes this object refer to the data in clone. More...

void	SetRefData (wxObjectRefData *data)
	Sets the wxObject::m_refData pointer. More...

void	UnRef ()
	Decrements the reference count in the associated data, and if it is zero, deletes the data. More...

void	UnShare ()
	This is the same of AllocExclusive() but this method is public. More...

void	operator delete (void *buf)
	The delete operator is defined for debugging versions of the library only, when the identifier `__WXDEBUG__` is defined. More...

void *	operator new (size_t size, const wxString &filename=NULL, int lineNum=0)
	The new operator is defined for debugging versions of the library only, when the identifier `__WXDEBUG__` is defined. More...

Static Public Member Functions
static wxVersionInfo	GetLibraryVersionInfo ()
	Get expat library version information. More...

Additional Inherited Members
Protected Member Functions inherited from wxObject
void	AllocExclusive ()
	Ensure that this object's data is not shared with any other object. More...

virtual wxObjectRefData *	CreateRefData () const
	Creates a new instance of the wxObjectRefData-derived class specific to this object and returns it. More...

virtual wxObjectRefData *	CloneRefData (const wxObjectRefData *data) const
	Creates a new instance of the wxObjectRefData-derived class specific to this object and initializes it copying data. More...

Protected Attributes inherited from wxObject
wxObjectRefData *	m_refData
	Pointer to an object which is the object's reference-counted data. More...

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ wxXmlDocument() [1/4]

wxXmlDocument::wxXmlDocument ( )

Default constructor.

◆ wxXmlDocument() [2/4]

wxXmlDocument::wxXmlDocument ( const wxXmlDocument & doc )

Copy constructor.

Deep copies all the XML tree of the given document.

◆ wxXmlDocument() [3/4]

wxXmlDocument::wxXmlDocument	(	const wxString &	filename,
		const wxString &	encoding = `"UTF-8"`
	)

Loads the given filename using the given encoding.

See Load().

◆ wxXmlDocument() [4/4]

wxXmlDocument::wxXmlDocument	(	wxInputStream &	stream,
		const wxString &	encoding = `"UTF-8"`
	)

Loads the XML document from given stream using the given encoding.

See Load().

◆ ~wxXmlDocument()

virtual wxXmlDocument::~wxXmlDocument ( )

virtual

Virtual destructor.

Frees the document root node.

Member Function Documentation

◆ AppendToProlog()

void wxXmlDocument::AppendToProlog ( wxXmlNode * node )

Appends a Process Instruction or Comment node to the document prologue.

Calling this function will create a prologue or attach the node to the end of an existing prologue.

Since: 2.9.2

◆ DetachDocumentNode()

wxXmlNode* wxXmlDocument::DetachDocumentNode ( )

Detaches the document node and returns it.

The document node will be set to NULL and thus IsOk() will return false after calling this function.

Note that the caller is responsible for deleting the returned node in order to avoid memory leaks.

Since: 2.9.2

◆ DetachRoot()

wxXmlNode* wxXmlDocument::DetachRoot ( )

Detaches the root entity node and returns it.

After calling this function, the document node will remain together with any prologue nodes, but IsOk() will return false since the root entity will be missing.

Note that the caller is responsible for deleting the returned node in order to avoid memory leaks.

◆ GetDoctype()

const wxXmlDoctype& wxXmlDocument::GetDoctype ( ) const

Returns the DOCTYPE declaration data for the document.

Since: 3.1.0

◆ GetDocumentNode()

wxXmlNode* wxXmlDocument::GetDocumentNode ( ) const

Returns the document node of the document.

Since: 2.9.2

◆ GetEncoding()

wxString wxXmlDocument::GetEncoding ( ) const

Returns encoding of in-memory representation of the document (same as passed to Load() or constructor, defaults to UTF-8).

Note: this is meaningless in Unicode build where data are stored as wchar_t*.

◆ GetEOL()

wxString wxXmlDocument::GetEOL ( ) const

Returns the output line ending string used for documents.

This string is determined by the last call to SetFileType().

Since: 3.1.1

◆ GetFileEncoding()

const wxString& wxXmlDocument::GetFileEncoding ( ) const

Returns encoding of document (may be empty).

Note: This is the encoding original file was saved in, not the encoding of in-memory representation!

◆ GetFileType()

wxTextFileType wxXmlDocument::GetFileType ( ) const

Returns the output line ending format used for documents.

Since: 3.1.1

◆ GetLibraryVersionInfo()

static wxVersionInfo wxXmlDocument::GetLibraryVersionInfo ( )

static

Get expat library version information.

Since: 2.9.2

See also: wxVersionInfo

◆ GetRoot()

wxXmlNode* wxXmlDocument::GetRoot ( ) const

Returns the root element node of the document.

◆ GetVersion()

const wxString& wxXmlDocument::GetVersion ( ) const

Returns the version of document.

This is the value in the <?xml version="1.0"?> header of the XML document. If the version attribute was not explicitly given in the header, this function returns an empty string.

◆ IsOk()

bool wxXmlDocument::IsOk ( ) const

Returns true if the document has been loaded successfully.

◆ Load() [1/2]

virtual bool wxXmlDocument::Load	(	const wxString &	filename,
		const wxString &	encoding = `"UTF-8"`,
		int	flags = `wxXMLDOC_NONE`
	)

virtual

Parses filename as an xml document and loads its data.

If flags does not contain wxXMLDOC_KEEP_WHITESPACE_NODES, then, while loading, all nodes of type wxXML_TEXT_NODE (see wxXmlNode) are automatically skipped if they contain whitespaces only.

The removal of these nodes makes the load process slightly faster and requires less memory however makes impossible to recreate exactly the loaded text with a Save() call later. Read the initial description of this class for more info.

Returns true on success, false otherwise.

◆ Load() [2/2]

virtual bool wxXmlDocument::Load	(	wxInputStream &	stream,
		const wxString &	encoding = `"UTF-8"`,
		int	flags = `wxXMLDOC_NONE`
	)

virtual

Like Load(const wxString&, const wxString&, int) but takes the data from given input stream.

◆ operator=()

wxXmlDocument& wxXmlDocument::operator= ( const wxXmlDocument & doc )

Deep copies the given document.

◆ Save() [1/2]

virtual bool wxXmlDocument::Save	(	const wxString &	filename,
		int	indentstep = `2`
	)		const

virtual

Saves XML tree creating a file named with given string.

If indentstep is greater than or equal to zero, then, while saving, an automatic indentation is added with steps composed by indentstep spaces.

If indentstep is wxXML_NO_INDENTATION, then, automatic indentation is turned off.

◆ Save() [2/2]

virtual bool wxXmlDocument::Save	(	wxOutputStream &	stream,
		int	indentstep = `2`
	)		const

virtual

Saves XML tree in the given output stream.

See Save(const wxString&, int) for a description of indentstep.

◆ SetDoctype()

void wxXmlDocument::SetDoctype ( const wxXmlDoctype & doctype )

Sets the data which will appear in the DOCTYPE declaration when the document is saved.

Since: 3.1.0

◆ SetDocumentNode()

void wxXmlDocument::SetDocumentNode ( wxXmlNode * node )

Sets the document node of this document.

Deletes any previous document node. Use DetachDocumentNode() and then SetDocumentNode() if you want to replace the document node without deleting the old document tree.

Since: 2.9.2

◆ SetEncoding()

void wxXmlDocument::SetEncoding ( const wxString & enc )

Sets the encoding of the document.

◆ SetFileEncoding()

void wxXmlDocument::SetFileEncoding ( const wxString & encoding )

Sets the encoding of the file which will be used to save the document.

◆ SetFileType()

void wxXmlDocument::SetFileType ( wxTextFileType fileType )

Sets the output line ending formats when the document is saved.

By default Unix file type is used, i.e. a single ASCII LF (10) character is used at the end of lines.

Since: 3.1.1

◆ SetRoot()

void wxXmlDocument::SetRoot ( wxXmlNode * node )

Sets the root element node of this document.

Will create the document node if necessary. Any previous root element node is deleted.

◆ SetVersion()

void wxXmlDocument::SetVersion ( const wxString & version )

Sets the version of the XML file which will be used to save the document.

Detailed Description

Public Member Functions

Static Public Member Functions

Additional Inherited Members

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ wxXmlDocument() [1/4]

◆ wxXmlDocument() [2/4]

◆ wxXmlDocument() [3/4]

◆ wxXmlDocument() [4/4]

◆ ~wxXmlDocument()

Member Function Documentation

◆ AppendToProlog()

◆ DetachDocumentNode()

◆ DetachRoot()

◆ GetDoctype()

◆ GetDocumentNode()

◆ GetEncoding()

◆ GetEOL()

◆ GetFileEncoding()

◆ GetFileType()

◆ GetLibraryVersionInfo()

◆ GetRoot()

◆ GetVersion()

◆ IsOk()

◆ Load() [1/2]

◆ Load() [2/2]

◆ operator=()

◆ Save() [1/2]

◆ Save() [2/2]

◆ SetDoctype()

◆ SetDocumentNode()

◆ SetEncoding()

◆ SetFileEncoding()

◆ SetFileType()

◆ SetRoot()

◆ SetVersion()