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authorHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2015-01-05 20:35:04 +0100
committerHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2015-01-05 20:35:04 +0100
commit82d390808d7121df472d9692071a49236e3efd2f (patch)
tree955c45f8774d74b3ad0d415b4aeb047cc5bcd88f /README.xml
parent79bd1747e36607266c606d906013ef5ae41a324a (diff)
README.xml: reword some things, reference files (to always have working examples)
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diff --git a/README.xml b/README.xml
index d8eeec4..7f2d191 100644
--- a/README.xml
+++ b/README.xml
@@ -13,15 +13,16 @@ Features
- Relatively small parser.
- Pretty simple API comparable with libexpat.
+- Pretty fast.
+- Portable
Supports
--------
- Tags in short-form (<img src="lolcat.jpg" title="Meow" />).
-- Attributes
+- Tag attributes.
- Short attributes without an explicity set value (<input type="checkbox" checked />).
- - Attribute entities.
- Comments
- CDATA sections.
@@ -31,106 +32,34 @@ Caveats
- Internally static buffers are used, callbacks like XMLParser.xmldata are
called multiple times for the same tag if the data size is bigger than the
- internal buffer size (sizeof(XMLParser.data)). To differentiate between this
- you can use xml*start and xml*end.
-- If xmlattrentity or xmldataentity is NULL it will pass the data to xmlattr
- and xmldata.
-- No table of (HTML / XML) named entities you should handle this with the
- XMLParser.xmldataentity callback yourself.
+ internal buffer size (sizeof(XMLParser.data)). To differentiate between new
+ calls for data you can use the xml*start and xml*end handlers.
+- If the xmlattrentity or xmldataentity handler is NULL it will pass the data
+ to the xmlattr and xmldata handler.
+- There is no table of (HTML / XML) named entities you should handle this with
+ the XMLParser.xmldataentity handler yourself.
- The XML is not checked for errors so it will happily continue parsing invalid
XML data, this is by design.
+Files used
+----------
+xml.c and xml.h
+
+
Interface / API
---------------
-Should be straightforward, see xml.{c,h} and the example below.
-
-
-Files
------
-xml.c, xml.h
-
-
-Example (get RSS/Atom links from a webpage)
--------------------------------------------
-
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include <strings.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <ctype.h>
-
-#include "util.h"
-#include "xml.h"
-
-static unsigned int isbase = 0, islink = 0, isfeedlink = 0, found = 0;
-static char feedlink[4096] = "", basehref[4096] = "", feedtype[256] = "";
-
-static void
-xmltagstart(XMLParser *p, const char *tag, size_t taglen)
-{
- isbase = islink = isfeedlink = 0;
- if(taglen == 4) { /* optimization */
- if(!strncasecmp(tag, "base", taglen))
- isbase = 1;
- else if(!strncasecmp(tag, "link", taglen))
- islink = 1;
- }
-}
-
-static void
-xmltagstartparsed(XMLParser *p, const char *tag, size_t taglen, int isshort)
-{
- if(isfeedlink) {
- if(*feedtype) {
- fputs(feedtype, stdout);
- putchar(' ');
- }
- printlink(feedlink, basehref, stdout); /* this is in util.h (program-specific) */
- putchar('\n');
- found++;
- }
-}
-
-static void
-xmlattr(XMLParser *p, const char *tag, size_t taglen, const char *name,
- size_t namelen, const char *value, size_t valuelen)
-{
-
- if(namelen != 4) /* optimization */
- return;
- if(isbase) {
- if(!strncasecmp(name, "href", namelen))
- strlcpy(basehref, value, sizeof(basehref));
- } else if(islink) {
- if(!strncasecmp(name, "type", namelen)) {
- if(!strncasecmp(value, "application/atom", strlen("application/atom")) ||
- !strncasecmp(value, "application/rss", strlen("application/rss"))) {
- isfeedlink = 1;
- strlcpy(feedtype, value, sizeof(feedtype));
- }
- } else if(!strncasecmp(name, "href", namelen))
- strlcpy(feedlink, value, sizeof(feedlink));
- }
-}
-
-int
-main(int argc, char **argv)
-{
- XMLParser x;
-
- /* base href */
- if(argc > 1)
- strlcpy(basehref, argv[1], sizeof(basehref));
-
- xmlparser_init(&x, stdin);
- x.xmltagstart = xmltagstart;
- x.xmlattr = xmlattr;
- x.xmltagstartparsed = xmltagstartparsed;
-
- xmlparser_parse(&x);
-
- return found > 0 ? 0 : 1;
-}
+Should be straightforward, see xml.{c,h} and the examples below.
+
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+sfeed_opml_import.c or sfeed_web.c or sfeed_xmlenc.c
+
+
+License
+-------
+Same as sfeed, see LICENSE file.