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local expat = require'expat'

A ffi binding for the Expat XML parser.

API

expat.parse(source, callbacks)

Parse a XML from a string, cdata, file, or reader function, calling a callback for each piece of the XML parsed.

The optional namespacesep field is a single-character string. If present, it causes XML namespaces to be resolved during parsing. Namespace URLs are then concatenated to tag names using the specified character.

source = {path = S} | {string = S} | {cdata = CDATA, size = N} | {read = read_function} & {[namespacesep=S]}

callbacks = {
  element         = function(name, model) end,
  attr_list       = function(elem, name, type, dflt, is_required) end,
  xml             = function(version, encoding, standalone) end,
  entity          = function(name, is_param_entity, val, base, sysid, pubid, notation) end,
  start_tag       = function(name, attrs) end,
  end_tag         = function(name) end,
  cdata           = function(s) end,
  pi              = function(target, data) end,
  comment         = function(s) end,
  start_cdata     = function() end,
  end_cdata       = function() end,
  default         = function(s) end,
  default_expand  = function(s) end,
  start_doctype   = function(name, sysid, pubid, has_internal_subset) end,
  end_doctype     = function() end,
  unparsed        = function(name, base, sysid, pubid, notation) end,
  notation        = function(name, base, sysid, pubid) end,
  start_namespace = function(prefix, uri) end,
  end_namespace   = function(prefix) end,
  not_standalone  = function() end,
  ref             = function(parser, context, base, sysid, pubid) end,
  skipped         = function(name, is_parameter_entity) end,
  unknown         = function(name, info) end,
}

expat.treeparse(source, [known_tags]) -> root_node

Parse a XML to a tree of nodes. known_tags filters the output so that only the tags that known_tags indexes are returned.

Nodes look like this:

node = {tag=, attrs={<k>=v}, children={node1,...}, tags={<tag> = node}, cdata=, parent=}

expat.children(node, tag) -> iter() -> node

Iterate a node’s children that have a specific tag.


Last updated: 8 years ago | Edit on GitHub

Package:expat
Pkg type:Lua+ffi
Version: 234375b
Last commit:
Author: Cosmin Apreutesei
License: MIT
Import ver: 2.1.0

Requires: +glue  +luajit  +glue  +luajit 

Required by: none


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