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NAME

       XML::LibXML::Reader - XML::LibXML::Reader - interface to libxml2 pull parser

SYNOPSIS

         use XML::LibXML::Reader;

         my $reader = XML::LibXML::Reader->new(location => "file.xml")
                or die "cannot read file.xml\n";
         while ($reader->read) {
           processNode($reader);
         }

         sub processNode {
             my $reader = shift;
             printf "%d %d %s %d\n", ($reader->depth,
                                      $reader->nodeType,
                                      $reader->name,
                                      $reader->isEmptyElement);
         }

       or

         my $reader = XML::LibXML::Reader->new(location => "file.xml")
                or die "cannot read file.xml\n";
           $reader->preservePattern('//table/tr');
           $reader->finish;
           print $reader->document->toString(1);

DESCRIPTION

       This is a perl interface to libxml2's pull-parser implementation xmlTextReader
       http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlreader.html. This feature requires at least
       libxml2-2.6.21. Pull-parsers (such as StAX in Java, or XmlReader in C#) use an iterator
       approach to parse XML documents. They are easier to program than event-based parser (SAX)
       and much more lightweight than tree-based parser (DOM), which load the complete tree into
       memory.

       The Reader acts as a cursor going forward on the document stream and stopping at each node
       on the way. At every point, the DOM-like methods of the Reader object allow one to examine
       the current node (name, namespace, attributes, etc.)

       The user's code keeps control of the progress and simply calls the "read()" function
       repeatedly to progress to the next node in the document order. Other functions provide
       means for skipping complete sub-trees, or nodes until a specific element, etc.

       At every time, only a very limited portion of the document is kept in the memory, which
       makes the API more memory-efficient than using DOM. However, it is also possible to mix
       Reader with DOM. At every point the user may copy the current node (optionally expanded
       into a complete sub-tree) from the processed document to another DOM tree, or to instruct
       the Reader to collect sub-document in form of a DOM tree consisting of selected nodes.

       Reader API also supports namespaces, xml:base, entity handling, and DTD validation. Schema
       and RelaxNG validation support will probably be added in some later revision of the Perl
       interface.

       The naming of methods compared to libxml2 and C# XmlTextReader has been changed slightly
       to match the conventions of XML::LibXML. Some functions have been changed or added with
       respect to the C interface.

CONSTRUCTOR

       Depending on the XML source, the Reader object can be created with either of:

         my $reader = XML::LibXML::Reader->new( location => "file.xml", ... );
           my $reader = XML::LibXML::Reader->new( string => $xml_string, ... );
           my $reader = XML::LibXML::Reader->new( IO => $file_handle, ... );
           my $reader = XML::LibXML::Reader->new( FD => fileno(STDIN), ... );
           my $reader = XML::LibXML::Reader->new( DOM => $dom, ... );

       where ... are (optional) reader options described below in "Reader options" or various
       parser options described in XML::LibXML::Parser. The constructor recognizes the following
       XML sources:

   Source specification
       location
           Read XML from a local file or URL.

       string
           Read XML from a string.

       IO  Read XML a Perl IO filehandle.

       FD  Read XML from a file descriptor (bypasses Perl I/O layer, only applicable to
           filehandles for regular files or pipes). Possibly faster than IO.

       DOM Use reader API to walk through a pre-parsed XML::LibXML::Document.

   Reader options
       encoding => $encoding
           override document encoding.

       RelaxNG => $rng_schema
           can be used to pass either a XML::LibXML::RelaxNG object or a filename or URL of a
           RelaxNG schema to the constructor. The schema is then used to validate the document as
           it is processed.

       Schema => $xsd_schema
           can be used to pass either a XML::LibXML::Schema object or a filename or URL of a W3C
           XSD schema to the constructor. The schema is then used to validate the document as it
           is processed.

       ... the reader further supports various parser options described in XML::LibXML::Parser
           (specifically those labeled by /reader/).

METHODS CONTROLLING PARSING PROGRESS

       read ()
           Moves the position to the next node in the stream, exposing its properties.

           Returns 1 if the node was read successfully, 0 if there is no more nodes to read, or
           -1 in case of error

       readAttributeValue ()
           Parses an attribute value into one or more Text and EntityReference nodes.

           Returns 1 in case of success, 0 if the reader was not positioned on an attribute node
           or all the attribute values have been read, or -1 in case of error.

       readState ()
           Gets the read state of the reader. Returns the state value, or -1 in case of error.
           The module exports constants for the Reader states, see STATES below.

       depth ()
           The depth of the node in the tree, starts at 0 for the root node.

       next ()
           Skip to the node following the current one in the document order while avoiding the
           sub-tree if any. Returns 1 if the node was read successfully, 0 if there is no more
           nodes to read, or -1 in case of error.

       nextElement (localname?,nsURI?)
           Skip nodes following the current one in the document order until a specific element is
           reached. The element's name must be equal to a given localname if defined, and its
           namespace must equal to a given nsURI if defined. Either of the arguments can be
           undefined (or omitted, in case of the latter or both).

           Returns 1 if the element was found, 0 if there is no more nodes to read, or -1 in case
           of error.

       nextPatternMatch (compiled_pattern)
           Skip nodes following the current one in the document order until an element matching a
           given compiled pattern is reached. See XML::LibXML::Pattern for information on
           compiled patterns. See also the "matchesPattern" method.

           Returns 1 if the element was found, 0 if there is no more nodes to read, or -1 in case
           of error.

       skipSiblings ()
           Skip all nodes on the same or lower level until the first node on a higher level is
           reached. In particular, if the current node occurs in an element, the reader stops at
           the end tag of the parent element, otherwise it stops at a node immediately following
           the parent node.

           Returns 1 if successful, 0 if end of the document is reached, or -1 in case of error.

       nextSibling ()
           It skips to the node following the current one in the document order while avoiding
           the sub-tree if any.

           Returns 1 if the node was read successfully, 0 if there is no more nodes to read, or
           -1 in case of error

       nextSiblingElement (name?,nsURI?)
           Like nextElement but only processes sibling elements of the current node (moving
           forward using "nextSibling ()" rather than "read ()", internally).

           Returns 1 if the element was found, 0 if there is no more sibling nodes, or -1 in case
           of error.

       finish ()
           Skip all remaining nodes in the document, reaching end of the document.

           Returns 1 if successful, 0 in case of error.

       close ()
           This method releases any resources allocated by the current instance and closes any
           underlying input. It returns 0 on failure and 1 on success. This method is
           automatically called by the destructor when the reader is forgotten, therefore you do
           not have to call it directly.

METHODS EXTRACTING INFORMATION

       name ()
           Returns the qualified name of the current node, equal to (Prefix:)LocalName.

       nodeType ()
           Returns the type of the current node. See NODE TYPES below.

       localName ()
           Returns the local name of the node.

       prefix ()
           Returns the prefix of the namespace associated with the node.

       namespaceURI ()
           Returns the URI defining the namespace associated with the node.

       isEmptyElement ()
           Check if the current node is empty, this is a bit bizarre in the sense that <a/> will
           be considered empty while <a></a> will not.

       hasValue ()
           Returns true if the node can have a text value.

       value ()
           Provides the text value of the node if present or undef if not available.

       readInnerXml ()
           Reads the contents of the current node, including child nodes and markup.  Returns a
           string containing the XML of the node's content, or undef if the current node is
           neither an element nor attribute, or has no child nodes.

       readOuterXml ()
           Reads the contents of the current node, including child nodes and markup.

           Returns a string containing the XML of the node including its content, or undef if the
           current node is neither an element nor attribute.

       nodePath()
           Returns a canonical location path to the current element from the root node to the
           current node. Namespaced elements are matched by '*', because there is no way to
           declare prefixes within XPath patterns. Unlike "XML::LibXML::Node::nodePath()", this
           function does not provide sibling counts (i.e. instead of e.g. '/a/b[1]' and '/a/b[2]'
           you get '/a/b' for both matches).

       matchesPattern(compiled_pattern)
           Returns a true value if the current node matches a compiled pattern. See
           XML::LibXML::Pattern for information on compiled patterns. See also the
           "nextPatternMatch" method.

METHODS EXTRACTING DOM NODES

       document ()
           Provides access to the document tree built by the reader. This function can be used to
           collect the preserved nodes (see "preserveNode()" and preservePattern).

           CAUTION: Never use this function to modify the tree unless reading of the whole
           document is completed!

       copyCurrentNode (deep)
           This function is similar a DOM function "copyNode()". It returns a copy of the
           currently processed node as a corresponding DOM object. Use deep = 1 to obtain the
           full sub-tree.

       preserveNode ()
           This tells the XML Reader to preserve the current node in the document tree. A
           document tree consisting of the preserved nodes and their content can be obtained
           using the method "document()" once parsing is finished.

           Returns the node or NULL in case of error.

       preservePattern (pattern,\%ns_map)
           This tells the XML Reader to preserve all nodes matched by the pattern (which is a
           streaming XPath subset). A document tree consisting of the preserved nodes and their
           content can be obtained using the method "document()" once parsing is finished.

           An optional second argument can be used to provide a HASH reference mapping prefixes
           used by the XPath to namespace URIs.

           The XPath subset available with this function is described at

             http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#Selector

           and matches the production

             Path ::= ('.//')? ( Step '/' )* ( Step | '@' NameTest )

           Returns a positive number in case of success and -1 in case of error

METHODS PROCESSING ATTRIBUTES

       attributeCount ()
           Provides the number of attributes of the current node.

       hasAttributes ()
           Whether the node has attributes.

       getAttribute (name)
           Provides the value of the attribute with the specified qualified name.

           Returns a string containing the value of the specified attribute, or undef in case of
           error.

       getAttributeNs (localName, namespaceURI)
           Provides the value of the specified attribute.

           Returns a string containing the value of the specified attribute, or undef in case of
           error.

       getAttributeNo (no)
           Provides the value of the attribute with the specified index relative to the
           containing element.

           Returns a string containing the value of the specified attribute, or undef in case of
           error.

       isDefault ()
           Returns true if the current attribute node was generated from the default value
           defined in the DTD.

       moveToAttribute (name)
           Moves the position to the attribute with the specified local name and namespace URI.

           Returns 1 in case of success, -1 in case of error, 0 if not found

       moveToAttributeNo (no)
           Moves the position to the attribute with the specified index relative to the
           containing element.

           Returns 1 in case of success, -1 in case of error, 0 if not found

       moveToAttributeNs (localName,namespaceURI)
           Moves the position to the attribute with the specified local name and namespace URI.

           Returns 1 in case of success, -1 in case of error, 0 if not found

       moveToFirstAttribute ()
           Moves the position to the first attribute associated with the current node.

           Returns 1 in case of success, -1 in case of error, 0 if not found

       moveToNextAttribute ()
           Moves the position to the next attribute associated with the current node.

           Returns 1 in case of success, -1 in case of error, 0 if not found

       moveToElement ()
           Moves the position to the node that contains the current attribute node.

           Returns 1 in case of success, -1 in case of error, 0 if not moved

       isNamespaceDecl ()
           Determine whether the current node is a namespace declaration rather than a regular
           attribute.

           Returns 1 if the current node is a namespace declaration, 0 if it is a regular
           attribute or other type of node, or -1 in case of error.

OTHER METHODS

       lookupNamespace (prefix)
           Resolves a namespace prefix in the scope of the current element.

           Returns a string containing the namespace URI to which the prefix maps or undef in
           case of error.

       encoding ()
           Returns a string containing the encoding of the document or undef in case of error.

       standalone ()
           Determine the standalone status of the document being read. Returns 1 if the document
           was declared to be standalone, 0 if it was declared to be not standalone, or -1 if the
           document did not specify its standalone status or in case of error.

       xmlVersion ()
           Determine the XML version of the document being read. Returns a string containing the
           XML version of the document or undef in case of error.

       baseURI ()
           Returns the base URI of a given node.

       isValid ()
           Retrieve the validity status from the parser.

           Returns 1 if valid, 0 if no, and -1 in case of error.

       xmlLang ()
           The xml:lang scope within which the node resides.

       lineNumber ()
           Provide the line number of the current parsing point.

       columnNumber ()
           Provide the column number of the current parsing point.

       byteConsumed ()
           This function provides the current index of the parser relative to the start of the
           current entity. This function is computed in bytes from the beginning starting at zero
           and finishing at the size in bytes of the file if parsing a file. The function is of
           constant cost if the input is UTF-8 but can be costly if run on non-UTF-8 input.

       setParserProp (prop => value, ...)
           Change the parser processing behaviour by changing some of its internal properties.
           The following properties are available with this function: ``load_ext_dtd'',
           ``complete_attributes'', ``validation'', ``expand_entities''.

           Since some of the properties can only be changed before any read has been done, it is
           best to set the parsing properties at the constructor.

           Returns 0 if the call was successful, or -1 in case of error

       getParserProp (prop)
           Get value of an parser internal property. The following property names can be used:
           ``load_ext_dtd'', ``complete_attributes'', ``validation'', ``expand_entities''.

           Returns the value, usually 0 or 1, or -1 in case of error.

DESTRUCTION

       XML::LibXML takes care of the reader object destruction when the last reference to the
       reader object goes out of scope. The document tree is preserved, though, if either of
       $reader->document or $reader->preserveNode was used and references to the document tree
       exist.

NODE TYPES

       The reader interface provides the following constants for node types (the constant symbols
       are exported by default or if tag ":types" is used).

         XML_READER_TYPE_NONE                    => 0
         XML_READER_TYPE_ELEMENT                 => 1
         XML_READER_TYPE_ATTRIBUTE               => 2
         XML_READER_TYPE_TEXT                    => 3
         XML_READER_TYPE_CDATA                   => 4
         XML_READER_TYPE_ENTITY_REFERENCE        => 5
         XML_READER_TYPE_ENTITY                  => 6
         XML_READER_TYPE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION  => 7
         XML_READER_TYPE_COMMENT                 => 8
         XML_READER_TYPE_DOCUMENT                => 9
         XML_READER_TYPE_DOCUMENT_TYPE           => 10
         XML_READER_TYPE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT       => 11
         XML_READER_TYPE_NOTATION                => 12
         XML_READER_TYPE_WHITESPACE              => 13
         XML_READER_TYPE_SIGNIFICANT_WHITESPACE  => 14
         XML_READER_TYPE_END_ELEMENT             => 15
         XML_READER_TYPE_END_ENTITY              => 16
         XML_READER_TYPE_XML_DECLARATION         => 17

STATES

       The following constants represent the values returned by "readState()". They are exported
       by default, or if tag ":states" is used:

         XML_READER_NONE      => -1
         XML_READER_START     =>  0
         XML_READER_ELEMENT   =>  1
         XML_READER_END       =>  2
         XML_READER_EMPTY     =>  3
         XML_READER_BACKTRACK =>  4
         XML_READER_DONE      =>  5
         XML_READER_ERROR     =>  6

SEE ALSO

       XML::LibXML::Pattern for information about compiled patterns.

       http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlreader.html

       http://dotgnu.org/pnetlib-doc/System/Xml/XmlTextReader.html

ORIGINAL IMPLEMENTATION

       Heiko Klein, <H.Klein@gmx.net<gt> and Petr Pajas

AUTHORS

       Matt Sergeant, Christian Glahn, Petr Pajas

VERSION

       2.0134

COPYRIGHT

       2001-2007, AxKit.com Ltd.

       2002-2006, Christian Glahn.

       2006-2009, Petr Pajas.

LICENSE

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.