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NAME
domDoc - Manipulates an instance of a DOM document object
SYNOPSIS
domDocObjCmd method ?arg arg ...?
domDoc docToken method ?arg arg ...?
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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?
?-nogtescape? ?-noEmptyElementTag?
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).
If the option -nogtescape is given then the character '>' won't get escaped in
attribute values and text content of elements. The default is to escape this
character.
If the option -noEmptyElementTag is given then no empty tag syntax will be used.
Instead, if an element has empty content it will be serialized with an element
start tag and an immediately following element end tag.
asHTML ?-channel channelId? ?-escapeNonASCII? ?-htmlEntities? ?-doctypeDeclaration
<boolean>?
Returns the DOM tree serialized according to HTML rules (HTML elements are
recognized regardless of case, without end tags for empty 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 available
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 doesn't do any
syntactical check on a given internal subset.
cdataSectionElements (?URI:?localname|*) ?<boolean>?
This method allows one 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 one 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
returned 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 empty 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 automatically deleted as soon as the whole document gets deleted.
SEE ALSO
dom, domNode
KEYWORDS
DOM node creation, document element