Oracle8i Application Developer's Guide - XML Release 3 (8.1.7) Part Number A86030-01 |
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Using XML Parser for C, 7 of 10
Oracle XML parser for C checks if an XML document is well-formed, and optionally validates it against a DTD. The parser constructs an object tree which can be accessed via one of the following interfaces:
These two XML APIs:
Tree-based APIs are useful for a wide range of applications, but they often put a great strain on system resources, especially if the document is large (under very controlled circumstances, it is possible to construct the tree in a lazy fashion to avoid some of this problem). Furthermore, some applications need to build their own, different data trees, and it is very inefficient to build a tree of parse nodes, only to map it onto a new tree.
In both of these cases, an event-based API provides a simpler, lower-level access to an XML document: you can parse documents much larger than your available system memory, and you can construct your own data structures using your callback event handlers.
To use SAX, an xmlsaxcb
structure is initialized with function pointers and passed to the xmlinit()
call. A pointer to a user-defined context structure can also be included. That context pointer will be passed to each SAX function.
The SAX callback structure:
typedef struct { sword (*startDocument)(void *ctx); sword (*endDocument)(void *ctx); sword (*startElement)(void *ctx, const oratext *name, const struct xmlarray *attrs); sword (*endElement)(void *ctx, const oratext *name); sword (*characters)(void *ctx, const oratext *ch, size_t len); sword (*ignorableWhitespace)(void *ctx, const oratext *ch, size_t len); sword (*processingInstruction)(void *ctx, const oratext *target, const oratext *data); sword (*notationDecl)(void *ctx, const oratext *name, const oratext *publicId, const oratext *systemId); sword (*unparsedEntityDecl)(void *ctx, const oratext *name, const oratext *publicId, const oratext *systemId, const oratext *notationName); sword (*nsStartElement)(void *ctx, const oratext *qname, const oratext *local, const oratext *nsp, const struct xmlnodes *attrs); } xmlsaxcb;
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