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NAME

       SGML::Parser::OpenSP - Parse SGML documents using OpenSP

SYNOPSIS

         use SGML::Parser::OpenSP;

         my $p = SGML::Parser::OpenSP->new;
         my $h = ExampleHandler->new;

         $p->catalogs(qw(xhtml.soc));
         $p->warnings(qw(xml valid));
         $p->handler($h);

         $p->parse("example.xhtml");

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides an interface to the OpenSP SGML parser. OpenSP and this module are
       event based. As the parser recognizes parts of the document (say the start or end of an
       element), then any handlers registered for that type of an event are called with suitable
       parameters.

COMMON METHODS

       new()
           Returns a new SGML::Parser::OpenSP object. Takes no arguments.

       parse($file)
           Parses the file passed as an argument. Note that this must be a filename and not a
           filehandle. See "PROCESSING FILES" below for details.

       parse_string($data)
           Parses the data passed as an argument. See "PROCESSING FILES" below for details.

       halt()
           Halts processing before parsing the entire document. Takes no arguments.

       split_message()
           Splits OpenSP's error messages into their component parts.  See "POST-PROCESSING ERROR
           MESSAGES" below for details.

       get_location()
           See "POSITIONING INFORMATION" below for details.

CONFIGURATION

BOOLEAN OPTIONS
$p->handler([$handler])
Report events to the blessed reference $handler.

ERROR MESSAGE FORMAT
$p->show_open_entities([$bool])
Describe open entities in error messages. Error messages always include the position
of the most recently opened external entity. The default is false.

$p->show_open_elements([$bool])
Show the generic identifiers of open elements in error messages. The default is
false.

$p->show_error_numbers([$bool])
Show message numbers in error messages.

GENERATED EVENTS
$p->output_comment_decls([$bool])
Generate "comment_decl" events. The default is false.

$p->output_marked_sections([$bool])
Generate marked section events ("marked_section_start", "marked_section_end",
"ignored_chars"). The default is false.

$p->output_general_entities([$bool])
Generate "general_entity" events. The default is false.

IO SETTINGS
$p->map_catalog_document([$bool])
"parse" arguments specify catalog files rather than the document entity. The document
entity is specified by the first DOCUMENT entry in the catalog files. The default is
false.

$p->restrict_file_reading([$bool])
Restrict file reading to the specified directories (see the "search_dirs" method and
the "SGML_SEARCH_PATH" environment variable). You should turn this option on and
configure the search paths accordingly if you intend to process untrusted resources.
The default is false.

$p->catalogs([@catalogs])
Map public identifiers and entity names to system identifiers using the specified
catalog entry files. Multiple catalogs are allowed. If there is a catalog entry file
called "catalog" in the same place as the document entity, it will be searched for
immediately after those specified.

$p->search_dirs([@search_dirs])
Search the specified directories for files specified in system identifiers. Multiple
values options are allowed. See the description of the osfile storage manager in the
OpenSP documentation for more information about file searching.

$p->pass_file_descriptor([$bool])
Instruct "parse_string" to pass the input data down to the guts of OpenSP using the
"OSFD" storage manager (if true) or the "OSFILE" storage manager (if false). This
amounts to the difference between passing a file descriptor and a (temporary) file
name.

The default is true except on platforms, such as Win32, which are known to not support
passing file descriptors around in this manner. On platforms which support it you can
call this method with a false parameter to force use of temporary file names instead.

In general, this will do the right thing on its own so it's best to consider this an
internal method. If your platform is such that you have to force use of the OSFILE
storage manager, please report it as a bug and include the values of $^O,
$Config{archname}, and a description of the platform (e.g. "Windows Vista Service Pack
42").

PROCESSING OPTIONS
$p->include_params([@include_params])
For each name in @include_params pretend that

<!ENTITY % name "INCLUDE">

occurs at the start of the document type declaration subset in the SGML document
entity. Since repeated definitions of an entity are ignored, this definition will take
precedence over any other definitions of this entity in the document type declaration.
Multiple names are allowed. If the SGML declaration replaces the reserved name
INCLUDE then the new reserved name will be the replacement text of the entity.
Typically the document type declaration will contain

<!ENTITY % name "IGNORE">

and will use %name; in the status keyword specification of a marked section
declaration. In this case the effect of the option will be to cause the marked section
not to be ignored.

$p->active_links([@active_links])
???

ENABLING WARNINGS
Additional warnings can be enabled using

$p->warnings([@warnings])

The following values can be used to enable warnings:

xml Warn about constructs that are not allowed by XML.

mixed
Warn about mixed content models that do not allow #pcdata anywhere.

sgmldecl
Warn about various dubious constructions in the SGML declaration.

should
Warn about various recommendations made in ISO 8879 that the document does not comply
with. (Recommendations are expressed with ``should'', as distinct from requirements
which are usually expressed with ``shall''.)

default
Warn about defaulted references.

duplicate
Warn about duplicate entity declarations.

undefined
Warn about undefined elements: elements used in the DTD but not defined.

unclosed
Warn about unclosed start and end-tags.

empty
Warn about empty start and end-tags.

net Warn about net-enabling start-tags and null end-tags.

min-tag
Warn about minimized start and end-tags. Equivalent to combination of unclosed, empty
and net warnings.

unused-map
Warn about unused short reference maps: maps that are declared with a short reference
mapping declaration but never used in a short reference use declaration in the DTD.

unused-param
Warn about parameter entities that are defined but not used in a DTD. Unused internal
parameter entities whose text is "INCLUDE" or "IGNORE" won't get the warning.

notation-sysid
Warn about notations for which no system identifier could be generated.

all Warn about conditions that should usually be avoided (in the opinion of the author).
Equivalent to: "mixed", "should", "default", "undefined", "sgmldecl", "unused-map",
"unused-param", "empty" and "unclosed".

DISABLING WARNINGS
A warning can be disabled by using its name prefixed with "no-". Thus calling
warnings(qw(all no-duplicate)) will enable all warnings except those about duplicate
entity declarations.

The following values for "warnings()" disable errors:

no-idref
Do not give an error for an ID reference value which no element has as its ID. The
effect will be as if each attribute declared as an ID reference value had been
declared as a name.

no-significant
Do not give an error when a character that is not a significant character in the
reference concrete syntax occurs in a literal in the SGML declaration. This may be
useful in conjunction with certain buggy test suites.

no-valid
Do not require the document to be type-valid. This has the effect of changing the SGML
declaration to specify "VALIDITY NOASSERT" and "IMPLYDEF ATTLIST YES ELEMENT YES". An
option of "valid" has the effect of changing the SGML declaration to specify "VALIDITY
TYPE" and "IMPLYDEF ATTLIST NO ELEMENT NO". If neither "valid" nor "no-valid" are
specified, then the "VALIDITY" and "IMPLYDEF" specified in the SGML declaration will
be used.

XML WARNINGS
The following warnings are turned on for the "xml" warning described above:

inclusion
Warn about inclusions in element type declarations.

exclusion
Warn about exclusions in element type declarations.

rcdata-content
Warn about RCDATA declared content in element type declarations.

cdata-content
Warn about CDATA declared content in element type declarations.

ps-comment
Warn about comments in parameter separators.

attlist-group-decl
Warn about name groups in attribute declarations.

element-group-decl
Warn about name groups in element type declarations.

pi-entity
Warn about PI entities.

internal-sdata-entity
Warn about internal SDATA entities.

internal-cdata-entity
Warn about internal CDATA entities.

external-sdata-entity
Warn about external SDATA entities.

external-cdata-entity
Warn about external CDATA entities.

bracket-entity
Warn about bracketed text entities.

data-atts
Warn about attribute definition list declarations for notations.

missing-system-id
Warn about external identifiers without system identifiers.

conref
Warn about content reference attributes.

current
Warn about current attributes.

nutoken-decl-value
Warn about attributes with a declared value of NUTOKEN or NUTOKENS.

number-decl-value
Warn about attributes with a declared value of NUMBER or NUMBERS.

name-decl-value
Warn about attributes with a declared value of NAME or NAMES.

named-char-ref
Warn about named character references.

refc
Warn about omitted refc delimiters.

temp-ms
Warn about TEMP marked sections.

rcdata-ms
Warn about RCDATA marked sections.

instance-include-ms
Warn about INCLUDE marked sections in the document instance.

instance-ignore-ms
Warn about IGNORE marked sections in the document instance.

and-group
Warn about AND connectors in model groups.

rank
Warn about ranked elements.

empty-comment-decl
Warn about empty comment declarations.

att-value-not-literal
Warn about attribute values which are not literals.

missing-att-name
Warn about omitted attribute names in start tags.

comment-decl-s
Warn about spaces before the MDC in comment declarations.

comment-decl-multiple
Warn about comment declarations containing multiple comments.

missing-status-keyword
Warn about marked sections without a status keyword.

multiple-status-keyword
Warn about marked sections with multiple status keywords.

instance-param-entity
Warn about parameter entities in the document instance.

min-param
Warn about minimization parameters in element type declarations.

mixed-content-xml
Warn about cases of mixed content which are not allowed in XML.

name-group-not-or
Warn about name groups with a connector different from OR.

pi-missing-name
Warn about processing instructions which don't start with a name.

instance-status-keyword-s
Warn about spaces between DSO and status keyword in marked sections.

external-data-entity-ref
Warn about references to external data entities in the content.

att-value-external-entity-ref
Warn about references to external data entities in attribute values.

data-delim
Warn about occurances of `<' and `&' as data.

explicit-sgml-decl
Warn about an explicit SGML declaration.

internal-subset-ms
Warn about marked sections in the internal subset.

default-entity
Warn about a default entity declaration.

non-sgml-char-ref
Warn about numeric character references to non-SGML characters.

internal-subset-ps-param-entity
Warn about parameter entity references in parameter separators in the internal subset.

internal-subset-ts-param-entity
Warn about parameter entity references in token separators in the internal subset.

internal-subset-literal-param-entity
Warn about parameter entity references in parameter literals in the internal subset.

PROCESSING FILES

       In order to start processing of a document and receive events, the "parse" method must be
       called. It takes one argument specifying the path to a file (not a file handle). You must
       set an event handler using the "handler" method prior to using this method. The return
       value of "parse" is currently undefined.

EVENT HANDLERS

       In order to receive data from the parser you need to write an event handler. For example,

         package ExampleHandler;

         sub new { bless {}, shift }

         sub start_element
         {
             my ($self, $elem) = @_;
             printf "  * %s\n", $elem->{Name};
         }

       This handler would print all the element names as they are found in the document, for a
       typical XHTML document this might result in something like

         * html
         * head
         * title
         * body
         * p
         * ...

       The events closely match those in the generic interface to OpenSP, see
       <http://openjade.sf.net/doc/generic.htm> for more information.

       The event names have been changed to lowercase and underscores to separate words and
       properties are capitalized. Arrays are represented as Perl array references. "Position"
       information is not passed to the handler but made available through the "get_location"
       method which can be called from event handlers. Some redundant information has also been
       stripped and the generic identifier of an element is stored in the "Name" hash entry.

       For example, for an EndElementEvent the "end_element" handler gets called with a hash
       reference

         {
           Name => 'gi'
         }

       The following events are defined:

         * appinfo
         * processing_instruction
         * start_element
         * end_element
         * data
         * sdata
         * external_data_entity_ref
         * subdoc_entity_ref
         * start_dtd
         * end_dtd
         * end_prolog
         * general_entity       # set $p->output_general_entities(1)
         * comment_decl         # set $p->output_comment_decls(1)
         * marked_section_start # set $p->output_marked_sections(1)
         * marked_section_end   # set $p->output_marked_sections(1)
         * ignored_chars        # set $p->output_marked_sections(1)
         * error
         * open_entity_change

       If the documentation of the generic interface to OpenSP states that certain data is not
       valid, it will not be available through this interface (i.e., the respective key does not
       exist in the hash ref).

POSITIONING INFORMATION

       Event handlers can call the "get_location" method on the parser object to retrieve
       positioning information, the get_location method will return a hash reference with the
       following properties:

         LineNumber   => ..., # line number
         ColumnNumber => ..., # column number
         ByteOffset   => ..., # number of preceding bytes
         EntityOffset => ..., # number of preceding bit combinations
         EntityName   => ..., # name of the external entity
         FileName     => ..., # name of the file

       These can be "undef" or an empty string.

POST-PROCESSING ERROR MESSAGES

       OpenSP returns error messages in form of a string rather than individual components of the
       message like line numbers or message text. The "split_message" method on the parser object
       can be used to post-process these error message strings as reliable as possible. It can be
       used e.g.  from an error event handler if the parser object is accessible like

         sub error
         {
           my $self = shift;
           my $erro = shift;
           my $mess = $self->{parser}->split_message($erro);
         }

       See the documentation of "split_message" in the SGML::Parser::OpenSP::Tools documentation.

UNICODE SUPPORT

       All strings returned from event handlers and helper routines are UTF-8 encoded with the
       UTF-8 flag turned on, helper functions like "split_message" expect (but don't check) that
       string arguments are UTF-8 encoded and have the UTF-8 flag turned on. Behavior of helper
       functions is undefined when you pass unexpected input and should be avoided.

       "parse" has limited support for binary input, but the binary input must be compatible with
       OpenSP's generic interface requirements and you must specify the encoding through means
       available to OpenSP to enable it to properly decode the binary input. Any encoding meta
       data about such binary input specific to Perl (such as encoding disciplines for file
       handles when you pass a file descriptor) will be ignored. For more specific information
       refer to the OpenSP manual.

       •   <http://openjade.sourceforge.net/doc/sysid.htm>

       •   <http://openjade.sourceforge.net/doc/charset.htm>

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

OpenSP supports a number of environment variables to control specific processing aspects
such as "SGML_SEARCH_PATH" or "SP_CHARSET_FIXED". Portable applications need to ensure
that these are set prior to loading the OpenSP library into memory which happens when the
XS code is loaded. This means you need to wrap the code into a "BEGIN" block:

BEGIN { $ENV{SP_CHARSET_FIXED} = 1; }
use SGML::Parser::OpenSP;
# ...

Otherwise changes to the environment might not propagate to OpenSP. This applies
specifically to Win32 systems.

SGML_SEARCH_PATH
See <http://openjade.sourceforge.net/doc/sysid.htm>.

SP_HTTP_USER_AGENT
The "User-Agent" header for HTTP requests.

SP_HTTP_ACCEPT
The "Accept" header for HTTP requests.

SP_MESSAGE_FORMAT
Enable run time selection of message format, Value is one of "XML", "NONE",
"TRADITIONAL". Whether this will have an effect depends on a compile time setting
which might not be enabled in your OpenSP build. This module assumes that no such
support was compiled in.

SGML_CATALOG_FILES
SP_USE_DOCUMENT_CATALOG
See <http://openjade.sourceforge.net/doc/catalog.htm>.

SP_SYSTEM_CHARSET
SP_CHARSET_FIXED
SP_BCTF
SP_ENCODING
See <http://openjade.sourceforge.net/doc/charset.htm>.

Note that you can use the "search_dirs" method instead of using "SGML_SEARCH_PATH" and the
"catalogs" method instead of using "SGML_CATALOG_FILES" and attributes on storage object
specifications for "SP_BCTF" and "SP_ENCODING" respectively. For example, if
"SP_CHARSET_FIXED" is set to 1 you can use

$p->parse("<OSFILE encoding='UTF-8'>example.xhtml");

to process "example.xhtml" using the "UTF-8" character encoding.

KNOWN ISSUES

       OpenSP must be compiled with "SP_MULTI_BYTE" defined and with "SP_WIDE_SYSTEM" undefined,
       this module will otherwise break at runtime or not compile.

BUG REPORTS

       Please report bugs in this module via
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=SGML-Parser-OpenSP>

       Please report bugs in OpenSP via <http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=2115&atid=102115>

       Please send comments and questions to the spo-devel mailing list, see
       <http://lists.sf.net/lists/listinfo/spo-devel> for details.

AUTHORS

         Terje Bless <link@cpan.org> wrote version 0.01.
         Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de> wrote version 0.02+.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

         Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de>.
         This module is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.