Provided by: tdom_0.9.0-1_amd64 
NAME
domDoc - Manipulates an instance of a DOM document object
SYNOPSIS
domDocObjCmd method ?arg arg ...? _________________________________________________________________
DESCRIPTION
This command manipulates one particular instance of a document object. method indicates a specific method
of the document class. These methods should closely conform to the W3C recommendation "Document Object
Model (Core) Level 1" (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/level-one-core.html). Look at these documents
for a deeper understanding of the functionality.
The valid methods are:
documentElement ?objVar?
Returns the top most element in the document (the root element).
getElementsByTagName name
Returns a list of all elements in the document matching (glob style) name.
getElementsByTagNameNS uri localname
Returns a list of all elements in the subtree matching (glob style) localname and having the
given namespace uri.
createElement tagName ?objVar?
Creates (allocates) a new element node with node name tagName, append it to the hidden fragment
list in the document object and returns the node object. If objVar is given the new node object
is stored in this variable.
createElementNS url tagName ?objVar?
Creates (allocates) a new element node within a namespace having uri as the URI and node name
tagName, which could include the namespace prefix, append it to the hidden fragment list in the
document object and returns the node object. If objVar is given the new node object is stored in
this variable.
createTextNode text ?objVar?
Creates (allocates) a new text node with node value text, appends it to the hidden fragment list
in the document object and returns the node object. If objVar is given, the new node object is
stored in this variable.
createComment text ?objVar?
Creates (allocates) a new comment node with value text, appends it to the hidden fragment list in
the document object and returns the node object. If objVar is given, the new comment node object
is stored in this variable.
createCDATASection data ?objVar?
Creates (allocates) a new CDATA node with node value data, appends it to the hidden fragment list
in the document object and returns the node object. If objVar is given, the new node object is
stored in this variable.
createProcessingInstruction target data ?objVar?
Creates a process instruction, appends it to the hidden fragment list in the document object and
returns the node object. If objVar is given, the new node object is stored in this variable.
delete Explicitly deletes the document, including the associated Tcl object commands (for nodes,
fragment/new nodes, the document object itself) and the underlying DOM tree.
getDefaultOutputMethod
Returns the default output method of the document. This is usually a result of a XSLT
transformation.
asXML ?-indent none/1..8? ?-channel channelId? ?-escapeNonASCII? ?-doctypeDeclaration <boolean>?
-xmlDeclaration <boolean>? -encString <string> ?-escapeAllQuot? ?-indentAttrs?
Returns the DOM tree as an (optional indented) XML string or sends the output directly to the
given channelId.
If the option -escapeNonASCII is given, every non 7 bit ASCII character in attribute values or
element PCDATA content will be escaped as character reference in decimal representation.
The flag -doctypeDeclaration determines whether there will be a DOCTYPE declaration emitted before
the first node of the document. The default is not to emit it. The DOCTYPE name will always be the
element name of the document element. An external entity declaration of the external subset is
only emitted if the document has a system identifier.
The flag -xmlDeclaration determines whether there will be an XML Declaration and a newline emitted
before anything else. The default is not to emit one. If this flag is given with a true argument
then
-encString sets the encoding value in the XML Declaration. Otherwise this option is ignored.
Please note that this option just enhances the string representation of the generated XML
Declaration with an encoding information string, nothing more. It's up to the user to handle
encoding in case of writing to a channel or reparsing.
If the option -escapeAllQuot is given, quotation marks will be escaped with " even in text
content of elements.
If the option -indentAttrs is given, then attributes will each be separated with newlines and
indented to the same level as the parent node plus the value given as argument to -indentAttrs
(0..8).
asHTML ?-channel channelId? ?-escapeNonASCII? ?-htmlEntities? ?-doctypeDeclaration <boolean>?
Returns the DOM tree serialized acording to HTML rules (HTML elements are recognized regardless of
case, without end tags for emtpy HTML elements etc.) as string or sends the output directly to the
given channelId. If the option -escapeNonASCII is given, every non 7 bit ASCII character in
attribute values or element PCDATA content will be escaped as character reference in decimal
representation. If the option -htmlEntities is given, a character is written using its HTML 4.01
character entity reference, if it has one. If the flag -doctypeDeclaration is given there will be
a DOCTYPE declaration emitted before the first node of the document. The default is, to do not.
The DOCTYPE name will always be the element name of the document element without case
normalization. An external entity declaration of the external subset is only emitted, if the
document has a system identifier. The doctype declaration will be written from the avaliable
information, without check, if this is a known (w3c) HTML version information or if the document
confirms to the given HTML version.
asText The asText method returns the tree by serializing the string-value of every text node in document
order without any escaping. In effect, this is what the xslt output method "text" (XSLT 1.0
recommendation, section 16.3) does.
asJSON ?-indent none/0..8? ?-channel channelId?
The asJSON method serializes the tree into a valid JSON data string. In general, this may be a
lossy serialization. For this serialization all comment, character data sections and processing
instruction nodes, all attributes and all XML namespaces are ignored. Only element and text nodes
may be reflected in the generated JSON serialization. Appropriate JSON data type information of a
node will be respected.
If an element node has the JSON type OBJECT, then every element node child of this element will be
serialized as member of that object, with the node name of the child as the member name and the
relevant children of that child as the value. Every other child nodes will be ignored.
If an element node has the JSON type ARRAY, then the text and element node children of that
element node are serialized as the consecutive values of the array. Element node children of an
ARRAY element will be container nodes for nested ARRAY or OBJECT values.
Text nodes with the JSON types TRUE, FALSE or NULL will be serialized to the corresponding JSON
token without looking at the value of the text node. A text node without JSON type will always be
serialized as a JSON string token. A text node with JSON type NUMBER will be serialized as JSON
number token if the text node value is in fact a valid JSON number and as a JSON string if not.
If an element node doesn't has a JSON type then the serialization of its children is determined by
the following rules:
Only text and element node child are relevant. If the element node to serialize is the member of a
JSON object and there is no relevant child node the value of that member will be an empty JSON
string. If the only relevant child node of this element node is a text node then the JSON value of
that text node will be the value of the object member. If the element has more than one relevant
child nodes and the first one is a text node then the relevant children will be serialized as JSON
array. If the only relevant child node is an element node or the first relevant child is an
element node and the node name of that only or first relevant child isn't equal to the array
container node name all element node children will be serialized as the members of a JSON object
(while ignoring any intermixed text nodes). If the only or first relevant child is an element node
and the node name of this child is equal to the array container element name then all relevant
children will be serialized as the values of a JSON array.
If the element to serialize is a value of a JSON array and the node name of this element isn't
equal to the array container node name that element will be seen as a container node for a JSON
object and all element node children will be serialized as the members of that array while
ignoring any text node children. If the element to serialize is a value of a JSON array and the
node name of this element is equal to the array container node name, all relevant children will be
serialized as JSON array.
If the -channel option is given the serialization isn't returned as string but send directly to
the channel, given as argument to the option.
If the -indent option is given and the argument given to this option isn't "none" then the
returned JSON string is "pretty-printed". The numeric argument to this option defines the number
of spaces for any indentation level. The default is to not emit any additional white space.
publicId ?publicId?
Returns the public identifier of the doctype declaration of the document, if there is one,
otherwise the empty string. If there is a value given to the method, the public identifier of the
document is set to this value.
systemId ?systemId?
Returns the system identifier of the doctype declaration of the document, if there is one,
otherwise the empty string. If there is a value given to the method, the system identifier of the
document is set to this value.
internalSubset ?internalSubset?
Returns the internal subset of the doctype declaration of the document, if there is one, otherwise
the empty string. If there is a value given to the method, the internal subset of the document is
set to this value. Note that none of the parsing methods preserve the internal subset of a
document; a freshly parsed document will always have an empty internal subset. Also note, that the
method doesen't do any syntactical check on a given internal subset.
cdataSectionElements (?URI:?localname|*) ?<boolean>?
This method allows to control for which element nodes the text node children will be serialized as
CDATA sections (this affects only serialization with the asXML method, no text node is altered in
any way by this method). IF the method is called with an element name as first argument and a
boolean with value true as second argument, every text node child of every element node in the
document with the same name as the first argument will be serialized as CDATA section. If the
second argument is a boolean with value false, all text nodes of all elements with the same name
as the first argument will be serialized as usual. Namespaced element names have to be given in
the form namespace_URI:localname, not in the otherwise usual prefix:localname form. With two
arguments called, the method returns the used boolean value. If the method is called with only an
element name, it will return a boolean value, indicating that the text node children of all
elements with that name in the document will be serialized as CDATA section elements (return value
1) or not (return value 0). If the method is called with only one argument and that argument is an
asterisk ('*'), then the method returns an unordered list of all element names of the document,
for which the text node children will be serialized as CDATA section nodes.
selectNodesNamespaces ?prefixUriList?
This method allows to control a document global prefix to namespace URI mapping, which will be
used for selectNodes method calls (on document as well as on all nodes, which belongs to the
document) if it is not overwritten by using the -namespaces option of the selectNodes method. Any
namespace prefix within an xpath expression will be first resolved against this list. If the list
binds the same prefix to different namespaces, then the first binding will win. If a prefix could
not resolved against the document global prefix / namespaces list, then the namespace definitions
in scope of the context node will be used to resolve the prefix, as usual. If the optional
argument prefixUriList is given, then the global prefix / namespace list is set to this list and
returns it. Without the optional argument the method returns the current list. The default is the
empty list.
xslt ?-parameters parameterList? ?-ignoreUndeclaredParameters? ?-maxApplyDepth int? ?-xsltmessagecmd
script? stylesheet ?outputVar?
Applies an XSLT transformation on the whole document of the node object using the XSLT stylesheet
(given as domDoc). Returns a document object containing the result document of the transformation
and stores that document object in the optional outputVar, if that was given.
The optional -parameters option sets top level <xsl:param> to string values. The parameterList has
to be a tcl list consisting of parameter name and value pairs.
If the option -ignoreUndeclaredParameters is given, then parameter names in the parameterList
given to the -parameters options that are not declared as top-level parameters in the stylesheet
are silently ignored. Without this option, an error is raised if the user tries to set a top-level
parameter that is not declared in the stylesheet.
The option -maxApplyDepth expects a positiv integer as argument. By default, the xslt engine
allows xslt templates to nest up to 3000 levels (and raises error if they nest deeper). This limit
can be set by the -maxApplyDepth option.
The -xsltmessagecmd option sets a callback for xslt:message elements in the stylesheet. The actual
command consists of the script, given as argument to the option, appended with the XML Fragment
from instantiating the xsl:message element content as string (as if the XPath string() function
would have been applied to the XML Fragment) and a flag, which indicates, if the xsl:message has
an attribute "terminate" with the value "yes". If the called script returns anything else then
TCL_OK then the xslt transformation will be aborted, returning error. If the called script returns
-code break, the error message is empty, otherwise the result code is reported. In case of
terminated transformation, the outputVar, if given, is set to the empty string.
toXSLTcmd ?objVar?
If the DOM tree represents a valid XSLT stylesheet, this method transforms the DOM tree into an
xslt command, otherwise it returns error. The created xsltCmd is returnd and stored in the objVar,
if a var name was given. A successful transformation of the DOM tree to an xsltCmd removes the
domDoc cmd and all nodeCmds of the document.
The syntax of the created xsltCmd is:
xsltCmd method ?arg ...?
The valid methods are:
transform ?-parameters parameterList? ?-ignoreUndeclaredParameters? ?-maxApplyDepth int?
?-xsltmessagecmd script? domDoc ?outputVar?
Applies XSLT transformation on the document domDoc. Returns a document object containing
the result document of that transformation and stores it in the optional outputVar.
The optional -parameters option sets top level <xsl:param> to string values. The
parameterList has to be a tcl list consisting of parameter name and value pairs.
If the option -ignoreUndeclaredParameters is given, then parameter names in the
parameterList given to the -parameters options that are not declared as top-level
parameters in the stylesheet are silently ignored. Without this option, an error is raised
if the user tries to set a top-level parameter, which is not declared in the stylesheet.
The option -maxApplyDepth expects a positiv integer as argument. By default, the xslt
engine allows xslt templates to nest up to 3000 levels (and raises error if they nest
deeper). This limit can be set by the -maxApplyDepth option.
The -xsltmessagecmd option sets a callback for xslt:message elements in the stylesheet. The
actual command consists of the script, given as argument to the option, appended with the
XML Fragment from instantiating the xsl:message element content as string (as if the XPath
string() function would have been applied to the XML Fragment) and a flag, which indicates,
if the xsl:message has an attribute "terminate" with the value "yes".
delete Deletes the xsltCmd and cleans up all used recourses
If the first argument to an xsltCmd is a domDoc or starts with a "-", then the command is
processed in the same way as <xsltCmd> transform.
normalize ?-forXPath?
Puts all text nodes in the document into a "normal" form where only structure (e.g., elements,
comments, processing instructions and CDATA sections) separates text nodes, i.e., there are
neither adjacent text nodes nor empty text nodes. If the option -forXPath is given, all CDATA
sections in the nodes are converted to text nodes, as a first step before the normalization.
nodeType
Returns the node type of the document node. This is always DOCUMENT_NODE.
getElementById id
Returns the node having a id attribute with value id or the emtpy string, if no node has an id
attribute with that value.
firstChild ?objVar?
Returns the first top level node of the document.
lastChild ?objVar?
Returns the last top level node of the document.
appendChild newChild
Append newChild to the end of the list of top level nodes of the document.
removeChild child
Removes child from the list of top level nodes of the document. child will be part of the document
fragment list after this operation. It is not physically deleted.
hasChildNodes
Returns 1 if the document has any nodes in the tree. Otherwise 0 is returned.
childNodes
Returns a list of the top level nodes of the document.
ownerDocument ?domObjVar?
Returns the document itself.
insertBefore newChild refChild
Insert newChild before the refChild into the list of top level nodes of the document. If refChild
is the empty string, inserts newChild at the end of the top level nodes.
replaceChild newChild oldChild
Replaces oldChild with newChild in the list of children of that node. The oldChild node will be
part of the document fragment list after this operation.
appendFromList list
Parses list , creates an according DOM subtree and appends this subtree at the end of the current
list of top level nodes of the document.
appendXML XMLstring
Parses XMLstring, creates an according DOM subtree and appends this subtree at the end of the
current list of top level nodes of the document.
selectNodes ?-namespaces prefixUriList? ?-cache <boolean>? xpathQuery ?typeVar?
Returns the result of applying the XPath query xpathQuery to the document. The context node of the
query is the root node in the sense of the XPath recommendation (not the document element). The
result can be a string/value, a list of strings, a list of nodes or a list of attribute name /
value pairs. If typeVar is given the result type name is stored into that variable (empty, bool,
number, string, nodes, attrnodes or mixed).
The argument xpathQuery has to be a valid XPath expression. However, there is one exception to
that rule. Tcl variable names can appear in the XPath statement at any position where it is legal
according to the rules of the XPath syntax to put an XPath variable. The value of the variable is
substituted for the variable name. Ignoring the syntax rules of XPath the Tcl variable name may be
any legal Tcl var name: local variables, global variables, array entries and so on. The value
will always be seen as string literal by the xpath engine. Cast the value explicitly with the
according xpath functions (number(), boolean()) to another data type, if needed.
The option -namespaces expects a tcl list with prefix / namespace pairs as argument. If this
option is not given, then any namespace prefix within the xpath expression will be first resolved
against the list of prefix / namespace pairs set with the selectNodesNamespaces method for the
document the node belongs to. If this fails, then the namespace definitions in scope of the
context node will be used to resolve the prefix. If this option is given, any namespace prefix
within the xpath expression will be first resolved against that given list (and ignoring the
document global prefix / namespace list). If the list binds the same prefix to different
namespaces, then the first binding will win. If this fails, then the namespace definitions in
scope of the context node will be used to resolve the prefix, as usual.
If the -cache option is used with a true value, then the xpathQuery will be looked up in a
document specific cache. If the query is found, then the stored pre-compiled query will be used.
If the query isn't found, it will be compiled and stored in the cache, for use in further calls.
Please notice, that the xpathQuery as given as string is used as key for the cache. This means
that equal XPath expressions, which differ only in white space, are treated as different cache
entries. Special care is needed if the XPath expression includes namespace prefixes or references
to tcl variables. Both namespace prefixes and tcl variable references will be resolved according
to the XML prefix namespace mappings and tcl variable values at expression compilation time. If
the same XPath expression is used later on in a context with other XML prefix namespace mappings
or values of the used tcl variables, make sure to first remove the compiled expression from the
cache with the help of the deleteXPathCache method, to force a recompilation. Without using the
-cache option such consideration is never needed.
Examples:
set paragraphNodes [$node selectNodes {chapter[3]//para[@type='warning' or @type='error'} ]
foreach paragraph $paragraphNodes {
lappend values [$paragraph selectNodes attribute::type]
}
set doc [dom parse {<doc xmlns="http://www.defaultnamespace.org"><child/></doc>}]
set root [$doc documentElement]
set childNodes [$root selectNodes -namespaces {default http://www.defaultnamespace.org} default:child]
baseURI ?URI?
Returns the present baseURI of the document. If the optional argument URI is given, sets the base
URI of the document to the given URI.
appendFromScript tclScript
Appends the nodes created by the tclScript by Tcl functions, which have been built using dom
createNodeCmd, at the end of the current list of top level nodes of the document.
insertBeforeFromScript tclScript refChild
Inserts the nodes created in the tclScript by Tcl functions, which have been built using dom
createNodeCmd, before the refChild into to the list of top level nodes of the document. If
refChild is the empty string, the new nodes will be appended.
deleteXPathCache ?xpathQuery?
If called without the optional argument, all cached XPath expressions of the document are freed.
If called with the optional argument xpathQuery, this single XPath query will be removed from the
cache, if it is there. The method always returns an empty string.
Otherwise, if an unknown method name is given, the command with the same name as the given method within
the namespace ::dom::domDoc is tried to be executed. This allows quick method additions on Tcl level.
Newly created nodes are appended to a hidden fragment list. If they are not moved into the tree they are
automaticaly deleted as soon as the whole document gets deleted.
SEE ALSO
dom, domNode
KEYWORDS
DOM node creation, document element