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49 <h1>
50 The Expat XML Parser
51 <small>Release 2.4.1</small>
52 </h1>
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The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -080054<div class="content">
55
56<p>Expat is a library, written in C, for parsing XML documents. It's
57the underlying XML parser for the open source Mozilla project, Perl's
58<code>XML::Parser</code>, Python's <code>xml.parsers.expat</code>, and
59other open-source XML parsers.</p>
60
61<p>This library is the creation of James Clark, who's also given us
Elliott Hughes72472942018-01-10 08:36:10 -080062groff (an nroff look-alike), Jade (an implementation of ISO's DSSSL
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -080063stylesheet language for SGML), XP (a Java XML parser package), XT (a
64Java XSL engine). James was also the technical lead on the XML
65Working Group at W3C that produced the XML specification.</p>
66
67<p>This is free software, licensed under the <a
68href="../COPYING">MIT/X Consortium license</a>. You may download it
69from <a href="http://www.libexpat.org/">the Expat home page</a>.
70</p>
71
72<p>The bulk of this document was originally commissioned as an article
73by <a href="http://www.xml.com/">XML.com</a>. They graciously allowed
74Clark Cooper to retain copyright and to distribute it with Expat.
75This version has been substantially extended to include documentation
76on features which have been added since the original article was
77published, and additional information on using the original
78interface.</p>
79
80<hr />
81<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
82<ul>
83 <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
84 <li><a href="#building">Building and Installing</a></li>
85 <li><a href="#using">Using Expat</a></li>
86 <li><a href="#reference">Reference</a>
87 <ul>
88 <li><a href="#creation">Parser Creation Functions</a>
89 <ul>
90 <li><a href="#XML_ParserCreate">XML_ParserCreate</a></li>
91 <li><a href="#XML_ParserCreateNS">XML_ParserCreateNS</a></li>
92 <li><a href="#XML_ParserCreate_MM">XML_ParserCreate_MM</a></li>
93 <li><a href="#XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate">XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate</a></li>
94 <li><a href="#XML_ParserFree">XML_ParserFree</a></li>
95 <li><a href="#XML_ParserReset">XML_ParserReset</a></li>
96 </ul>
97 </li>
98 <li><a href="#parsing">Parsing Functions</a>
99 <ul>
100 <li><a href="#XML_Parse">XML_Parse</a></li>
101 <li><a href="#XML_ParseBuffer">XML_ParseBuffer</a></li>
102 <li><a href="#XML_GetBuffer">XML_GetBuffer</a></li>
103 <li><a href="#XML_StopParser">XML_StopParser</a></li>
104 <li><a href="#XML_ResumeParser">XML_ResumeParser</a></li>
105 <li><a href="#XML_GetParsingStatus">XML_GetParsingStatus</a></li>
106 </ul>
107 </li>
108 <li><a href="#setting">Handler Setting Functions</a>
109 <ul>
110 <li><a href="#XML_SetStartElementHandler">XML_SetStartElementHandler</a></li>
111 <li><a href="#XML_SetEndElementHandler">XML_SetEndElementHandler</a></li>
112 <li><a href="#XML_SetElementHandler">XML_SetElementHandler</a></li>
113 <li><a href="#XML_SetCharacterDataHandler">XML_SetCharacterDataHandler</a></li>
114 <li><a href="#XML_SetProcessingInstructionHandler">XML_SetProcessingInstructionHandler</a></li>
115 <li><a href="#XML_SetCommentHandler">XML_SetCommentHandler</a></li>
116 <li><a href="#XML_SetStartCdataSectionHandler">XML_SetStartCdataSectionHandler</a></li>
117 <li><a href="#XML_SetEndCdataSectionHandler">XML_SetEndCdataSectionHandler</a></li>
118 <li><a href="#XML_SetCdataSectionHandler">XML_SetCdataSectionHandler</a></li>
119 <li><a href="#XML_SetDefaultHandler">XML_SetDefaultHandler</a></li>
120 <li><a href="#XML_SetDefaultHandlerExpand">XML_SetDefaultHandlerExpand</a></li>
121 <li><a href="#XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler">XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler</a></li>
122 <li><a href="#XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandlerArg">XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandlerArg</a></li>
123 <li><a href="#XML_SetSkippedEntityHandler">XML_SetSkippedEntityHandler</a></li>
124 <li><a href="#XML_SetUnknownEncodingHandler">XML_SetUnknownEncodingHandler</a></li>
125 <li><a href="#XML_SetStartNamespaceDeclHandler">XML_SetStartNamespaceDeclHandler</a></li>
126 <li><a href="#XML_SetEndNamespaceDeclHandler">XML_SetEndNamespaceDeclHandler</a></li>
127 <li><a href="#XML_SetNamespaceDeclHandler">XML_SetNamespaceDeclHandler</a></li>
128 <li><a href="#XML_SetXmlDeclHandler">XML_SetXmlDeclHandler</a></li>
129 <li><a href="#XML_SetStartDoctypeDeclHandler">XML_SetStartDoctypeDeclHandler</a></li>
130 <li><a href="#XML_SetEndDoctypeDeclHandler">XML_SetEndDoctypeDeclHandler</a></li>
131 <li><a href="#XML_SetDoctypeDeclHandler">XML_SetDoctypeDeclHandler</a></li>
132 <li><a href="#XML_SetElementDeclHandler">XML_SetElementDeclHandler</a></li>
133 <li><a href="#XML_SetAttlistDeclHandler">XML_SetAttlistDeclHandler</a></li>
134 <li><a href="#XML_SetEntityDeclHandler">XML_SetEntityDeclHandler</a></li>
135 <li><a href="#XML_SetUnparsedEntityDeclHandler">XML_SetUnparsedEntityDeclHandler</a></li>
136 <li><a href="#XML_SetNotationDeclHandler">XML_SetNotationDeclHandler</a></li>
137 <li><a href="#XML_SetNotStandaloneHandler">XML_SetNotStandaloneHandler</a></li>
138 </ul>
139 </li>
140 <li><a href="#position">Parse Position and Error Reporting Functions</a>
141 <ul>
142 <li><a href="#XML_GetErrorCode">XML_GetErrorCode</a></li>
143 <li><a href="#XML_ErrorString">XML_ErrorString</a></li>
144 <li><a href="#XML_GetCurrentByteIndex">XML_GetCurrentByteIndex</a></li>
145 <li><a href="#XML_GetCurrentLineNumber">XML_GetCurrentLineNumber</a></li>
146 <li><a href="#XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber">XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber</a></li>
147 <li><a href="#XML_GetCurrentByteCount">XML_GetCurrentByteCount</a></li>
148 <li><a href="#XML_GetInputContext">XML_GetInputContext</a></li>
149 </ul>
150 </li>
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -0700151 <li>
152 <a href="#billion-laughs">Billion Laughs Attack Protection</a>
153 <ul>
154 <li><a href="#XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionMaximumAmplification">XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionMaximumAmplification</a></li>
155 <li><a href="#XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionActivationThreshold">XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionActivationThreshold</a></li>
156 </ul>
157 </li>
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800158 <li><a href="#miscellaneous">Miscellaneous Functions</a>
159 <ul>
160 <li><a href="#XML_SetUserData">XML_SetUserData</a></li>
161 <li><a href="#XML_GetUserData">XML_GetUserData</a></li>
162 <li><a href="#XML_UseParserAsHandlerArg">XML_UseParserAsHandlerArg</a></li>
163 <li><a href="#XML_SetBase">XML_SetBase</a></li>
164 <li><a href="#XML_GetBase">XML_GetBase</a></li>
165 <li><a href="#XML_GetSpecifiedAttributeCount">XML_GetSpecifiedAttributeCount</a></li>
166 <li><a href="#XML_GetIdAttributeIndex">XML_GetIdAttributeIndex</a></li>
Elliott Hughes35e432d2012-09-09 14:23:38 -0700167 <li><a href="#XML_GetAttributeInfo">XML_GetAttributeInfo</a></li>
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800168 <li><a href="#XML_SetEncoding">XML_SetEncoding</a></li>
169 <li><a href="#XML_SetParamEntityParsing">XML_SetParamEntityParsing</a></li>
Elliott Hughes35e432d2012-09-09 14:23:38 -0700170 <li><a href="#XML_SetHashSalt">XML_SetHashSalt</a></li>
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800171 <li><a href="#XML_UseForeignDTD">XML_UseForeignDTD</a></li>
172 <li><a href="#XML_SetReturnNSTriplet">XML_SetReturnNSTriplet</a></li>
173 <li><a href="#XML_DefaultCurrent">XML_DefaultCurrent</a></li>
174 <li><a href="#XML_ExpatVersion">XML_ExpatVersion</a></li>
175 <li><a href="#XML_ExpatVersionInfo">XML_ExpatVersionInfo</a></li>
176 <li><a href="#XML_GetFeatureList">XML_GetFeatureList</a></li>
177 <li><a href="#XML_FreeContentModel">XML_FreeContentModel</a></li>
178 <li><a href="#XML_MemMalloc">XML_MemMalloc</a></li>
179 <li><a href="#XML_MemRealloc">XML_MemRealloc</a></li>
180 <li><a href="#XML_MemFree">XML_MemFree</a></li>
181 </ul>
182 </li>
183 </ul>
184 </li>
185</ul>
186
187<hr />
188<h2><a name="overview">Overview</a></h2>
189
190<p>Expat is a stream-oriented parser. You register callback (or
191handler) functions with the parser and then start feeding it the
192document. As the parser recognizes parts of the document, it will
193call the appropriate handler for that part (if you've registered one.)
194The document is fed to the parser in pieces, so you can start parsing
195before you have all the document. This also allows you to parse really
196huge documents that won't fit into memory.</p>
197
198<p>Expat can be intimidating due to the many kinds of handlers and
199options you can set. But you only need to learn four functions in
200order to do 90% of what you'll want to do with it:</p>
201
202<dl>
203
204<dt><code><a href= "#XML_ParserCreate"
205 >XML_ParserCreate</a></code></dt>
206 <dd>Create a new parser object.</dd>
207
208<dt><code><a href= "#XML_SetElementHandler"
209 >XML_SetElementHandler</a></code></dt>
210 <dd>Set handlers for start and end tags.</dd>
211
212<dt><code><a href= "#XML_SetCharacterDataHandler"
213 >XML_SetCharacterDataHandler</a></code></dt>
214 <dd>Set handler for text.</dd>
215
216<dt><code><a href= "#XML_Parse"
217 >XML_Parse</a></code></dt>
218 <dd>Pass a buffer full of document to the parser</dd>
219</dl>
220
221<p>These functions and others are described in the <a
222href="#reference">reference</a> part of this document. The reference
223section also describes in detail the parameters passed to the
224different types of handlers.</p>
225
226<p>Let's look at a very simple example program that only uses 3 of the
227above functions (it doesn't need to set a character handler.) The
228program <a href="../examples/outline.c">outline.c</a> prints an
229element outline, indenting child elements to distinguish them from the
230parent element that contains them. The start handler does all the
231work. It prints two indenting spaces for every level of ancestor
232elements, then it prints the element and attribute
233information. Finally it increments the global <code>Depth</code>
234variable.</p>
235
236<pre class="eg">
237int Depth;
238
239void XMLCALL
240start(void *data, const char *el, const char **attr) {
241 int i;
242
243 for (i = 0; i &lt; Depth; i++)
244 printf(" ");
245
246 printf("%s", el);
247
248 for (i = 0; attr[i]; i += 2) {
249 printf(" %s='%s'", attr[i], attr[i + 1]);
250 }
251
252 printf("\n");
253 Depth++;
254} /* End of start handler */
255</pre>
256
257<p>The end tag simply does the bookkeeping work of decrementing
258<code>Depth</code>.</p>
259<pre class="eg">
260void XMLCALL
261end(void *data, const char *el) {
262 Depth--;
263} /* End of end handler */
264</pre>
265
266<p>Note the <code>XMLCALL</code> annotation used for the callbacks.
267This is used to ensure that the Expat and the callbacks are using the
268same calling convention in case the compiler options used for Expat
269itself and the client code are different. Expat tries not to care
270what the default calling convention is, though it may require that it
271be compiled with a default convention of "cdecl" on some platforms.
272For code which uses Expat, however, the calling convention is
273specified by the <code>XMLCALL</code> annotation on most platforms;
274callbacks should be defined using this annotation.</p>
275
276<p>The <code>XMLCALL</code> annotation was added in Expat 1.95.7, but
277existing working Expat applications don't need to add it (since they
278are already using the "cdecl" calling convention, or they wouldn't be
279working). The annotation is only needed if the default calling
280convention may be something other than "cdecl". To use the annotation
281safely with older versions of Expat, you can conditionally define it
282<em>after</em> including Expat's header file:</p>
283
284<pre class="eg">
285#include &lt;expat.h&gt;
286
287#ifndef XMLCALL
288#if defined(_MSC_EXTENSIONS) &amp;&amp; !defined(__BEOS__) &amp;&amp; !defined(__CYGWIN__)
289#define XMLCALL __cdecl
290#elif defined(__GNUC__)
291#define XMLCALL __attribute__((cdecl))
292#else
293#define XMLCALL
294#endif
295#endif
296</pre>
297
298<p>After creating the parser, the main program just has the job of
299shoveling the document to the parser so that it can do its work.</p>
300
301<hr />
302<h2><a name="building">Building and Installing Expat</a></h2>
303
304<p>The Expat distribution comes as a compressed (with GNU gzip) tar
305file. You may download the latest version from <a href=
306"http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/" >Source Forge</a>. After
307unpacking this, cd into the directory. Then follow either the Win32
308directions or Unix directions below.</p>
309
310<h3>Building under Win32</h3>
311
312<p>If you're using the GNU compiler under cygwin, follow the Unix
313directions in the next section. Otherwise if you have Microsoft's
Haibo Huang40a71912019-10-11 11:13:39 -0700314Developer Studio installed,
315you can use CMake to generate a <code>.sln</code> file, e.g.
316<code>
317cmake -G"Visual Studio 15 2017" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo .
318</code>, and build Expat using <code>msbuild /m expat.sln</code> after.</p>
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800319
320<p>Alternatively, you may download the Win32 binary package that
321contains the "expat.h" include file and a pre-built DLL.</p>
322
323<h3>Building under Unix (or GNU)</h3>
324
325<p>First you'll need to run the configure shell script in order to
326configure the Makefiles and headers for your system.</p>
327
328<p>If you're happy with all the defaults that configure picks for you,
329and you have permission on your system to install into /usr/local, you
330can install Expat with this sequence of commands:</p>
331
332<pre class="eg">
333./configure
334make
335make install
336</pre>
337
338<p>There are some options that you can provide to this script, but the
339only one we'll mention here is the <code>--prefix</code> option. You
340can find out all the options available by running configure with just
341the <code>--help</code> option.</p>
342
343<p>By default, the configure script sets things up so that the library
344gets installed in <code>/usr/local/lib</code> and the associated
345header file in <code>/usr/local/include</code>. But if you were to
346give the option, <code>--prefix=/home/me/mystuff</code>, then the
347library and header would get installed in
348<code>/home/me/mystuff/lib</code> and
349<code>/home/me/mystuff/include</code> respectively.</p>
350
351<h3>Configuring Expat Using the Pre-Processor</h3>
352
353<p>Expat's feature set can be configured using a small number of
354pre-processor definitions. The definition of this symbols does not
355affect the set of entry points for Expat, only the behavior of the API
356and the definition of character types in the case of
357<code>XML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T</code>. The symbols are:</p>
358
359<dl class="cpp-symbols">
360<dt>XML_DTD</dt>
361<dd>Include support for using and reporting DTD-based content. If
362this is defined, default attribute values from an external DTD subset
363are reported and attribute value normalization occurs based on the
364type of attributes defined in the external subset. Without
365this, Expat has a smaller memory footprint and can be faster, but will
366not load external entities or process conditional sections. This does
367not affect the set of functions available in the API.</dd>
368
369<dt>XML_NS</dt>
370<dd>When defined, support for the <cite><a href=
371"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/" >Namespaces in XML</a></cite>
372specification is included.</dd>
373
374<dt>XML_UNICODE</dt>
375<dd>When defined, character data reported to the application is
376encoded in UTF-16 using wide characters of the type
377<code>XML_Char</code>. This is implied if
378<code>XML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T</code> is defined.</dd>
379
380<dt>XML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T</dt>
381<dd>If defined, causes the <code>XML_Char</code> character type to be
382defined using the <code>wchar_t</code> type; otherwise, <code>unsigned
383short</code> is used. Defining this implies
384<code>XML_UNICODE</code>.</dd>
385
386<dt>XML_LARGE_SIZE</dt>
387<dd>If defined, causes the <code>XML_Size</code> and <code>XML_Index</code>
388integer types to be at least 64 bits in size. This is intended to support
389processing of very large input streams, where the return values of
390<code><a href="#XML_GetCurrentByteIndex" >XML_GetCurrentByteIndex</a></code>,
391<code><a href="#XML_GetCurrentLineNumber" >XML_GetCurrentLineNumber</a></code> and
392<code><a href="#XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber" >XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber</a></code>
393could overflow. It may not be supported by all compilers, and is turned
394off by default.</dd>
395
396<dt>XML_CONTEXT_BYTES</dt>
397<dd>The number of input bytes of markup context which the parser will
398ensure are available for reporting via <code><a href=
399"#XML_GetInputContext" >XML_GetInputContext</a></code>. This is
Elliott Hughes72472942018-01-10 08:36:10 -0800400normally set to 1024, and must be set to a positive integer. If this
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800401is not defined, the input context will not be available and <code><a
402href= "#XML_GetInputContext" >XML_GetInputContext</a></code> will
403always report NULL. Without this, Expat has a smaller memory
404footprint and can be faster.</dd>
405
406<dt>XML_STATIC</dt>
407<dd>On Windows, this should be set if Expat is going to be linked
408statically with the code that calls it; this is required to get all
409the right MSVC magic annotations correct. This is ignored on other
410platforms.</dd>
Elliott Hughes35e432d2012-09-09 14:23:38 -0700411
412<dt>XML_ATTR_INFO</dt>
Elliott Hughes72472942018-01-10 08:36:10 -0800413<dd>If defined, makes the additional function <code><a href=
Elliott Hughes35e432d2012-09-09 14:23:38 -0700414"#XML_GetAttributeInfo" >XML_GetAttributeInfo</a></code> available
415for reporting attribute byte offsets.</dd>
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800416</dl>
417
418<hr />
419<h2><a name="using">Using Expat</a></h2>
420
421<h3>Compiling and Linking Against Expat</h3>
422
423<p>Unless you installed Expat in a location not expected by your
424compiler and linker, all you have to do to use Expat in your programs
425is to include the Expat header (<code>#include &lt;expat.h&gt;</code>)
426in your files that make calls to it and to tell the linker that it
427needs to link against the Expat library. On Unix systems, this would
428usually be done with the <code>-lexpat</code> argument. Otherwise,
429you'll need to tell the compiler where to look for the Expat header
430and the linker where to find the Expat library. You may also need to
Elliott Hughesd07d5a72009-09-25 16:04:37 -0700431take steps to tell the operating system where to find this library at
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800432run time.</p>
433
434<p>On a Unix-based system, here's what a Makefile might look like when
435Expat is installed in a standard location:</p>
436
437<pre class="eg">
438CC=cc
439LDFLAGS=
440LIBS= -lexpat
441xmlapp: xmlapp.o
442 $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o xmlapp xmlapp.o $(LIBS)
443</pre>
444
445<p>If you installed Expat in, say, <code>/home/me/mystuff</code>, then
446the Makefile would look like this:</p>
447
448<pre class="eg">
449CC=cc
450CFLAGS= -I/home/me/mystuff/include
451LDFLAGS=
452LIBS= -L/home/me/mystuff/lib -lexpat
453xmlapp: xmlapp.o
454 $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o xmlapp xmlapp.o $(LIBS)
455</pre>
456
457<p>You'd also have to set the environment variable
458<code>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</code> to <code>/home/me/mystuff/lib</code> (or
459to <code>${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/home/me/mystuff/lib</code> if
460LD_LIBRARY_PATH already has some directories in it) in order to run
461your application.</p>
462
463<h3>Expat Basics</h3>
464
465<p>As we saw in the example in the overview, the first step in parsing
466an XML document with Expat is to create a parser object. There are <a
467href="#creation">three functions</a> in the Expat API for creating a
468parser object. However, only two of these (<code><a href=
469"#XML_ParserCreate" >XML_ParserCreate</a></code> and <code><a href=
470"#XML_ParserCreateNS" >XML_ParserCreateNS</a></code>) can be used for
471constructing a parser for a top-level document. The object returned
472by these functions is an opaque pointer (i.e. "expat.h" declares it as
473void *) to data with further internal structure. In order to free the
474memory associated with this object you must call <code><a href=
475"#XML_ParserFree" >XML_ParserFree</a></code>. Note that if you have
476provided any <a href="#userdata">user data</a> that gets stored in the
477parser, then your application is responsible for freeing it prior to
478calling <code>XML_ParserFree</code>.</p>
479
480<p>The objects returned by the parser creation functions are good for
481parsing only one XML document or external parsed entity. If your
482application needs to parse many XML documents, then it needs to create
483a parser object for each one. The best way to deal with this is to
484create a higher level object that contains all the default
485initialization you want for your parser objects.</p>
486
487<p>Walking through a document hierarchy with a stream oriented parser
488will require a good stack mechanism in order to keep track of current
489context. For instance, to answer the simple question, "What element
490does this text belong to?" requires a stack, since the parser may have
491descended into other elements that are children of the current one and
492has encountered this text on the way out.</p>
493
494<p>The things you're likely to want to keep on a stack are the
495currently opened element and it's attributes. You push this
496information onto the stack in the start handler and you pop it off in
497the end handler.</p>
498
499<p>For some tasks, it is sufficient to just keep information on what
500the depth of the stack is (or would be if you had one.) The outline
501program shown above presents one example. Another such task would be
502skipping over a complete element. When you see the start tag for the
503element you want to skip, you set a skip flag and record the depth at
504which the element started. When the end tag handler encounters the
505same depth, the skipped element has ended and the flag may be
506cleared. If you follow the convention that the root element starts at
5071, then you can use the same variable for skip flag and skip
508depth.</p>
509
510<pre class="eg">
511void
512init_info(Parseinfo *info) {
513 info->skip = 0;
514 info->depth = 1;
515 /* Other initializations here */
516} /* End of init_info */
517
518void XMLCALL
519rawstart(void *data, const char *el, const char **attr) {
520 Parseinfo *inf = (Parseinfo *) data;
521
522 if (! inf->skip) {
523 if (should_skip(inf, el, attr)) {
524 inf->skip = inf->depth;
525 }
526 else
527 start(inf, el, attr); /* This does rest of start handling */
528 }
529
530 inf->depth++;
531} /* End of rawstart */
532
533void XMLCALL
534rawend(void *data, const char *el) {
535 Parseinfo *inf = (Parseinfo *) data;
536
537 inf->depth--;
538
539 if (! inf->skip)
540 end(inf, el); /* This does rest of end handling */
541
542 if (inf->skip == inf->depth)
543 inf->skip = 0;
544} /* End rawend */
545</pre>
546
547<p>Notice in the above example the difference in how depth is
548manipulated in the start and end handlers. The end tag handler should
549be the mirror image of the start tag handler. This is necessary to
550properly model containment. Since, in the start tag handler, we
551incremented depth <em>after</em> the main body of start tag code, then
552in the end handler, we need to manipulate it <em>before</em> the main
553body. If we'd decided to increment it first thing in the start
554handler, then we'd have had to decrement it last thing in the end
555handler.</p>
556
557<h3 id="userdata">Communicating between handlers</h3>
558
559<p>In order to be able to pass information between different handlers
560without using globals, you'll need to define a data structure to hold
561the shared variables. You can then tell Expat (with the <code><a href=
562"#XML_SetUserData" >XML_SetUserData</a></code> function) to pass a
563pointer to this structure to the handlers. This is the first
564argument received by most handlers. In the <a href="#reference"
565>reference section</a>, an argument to a callback function is named
566<code>userData</code> and have type <code>void *</code> if the user
567data is passed; it will have the type <code>XML_Parser</code> if the
568parser itself is passed. When the parser is passed, the user data may
569be retrieved using <code><a href="#XML_GetUserData"
570>XML_GetUserData</a></code>.</p>
571
572<p>One common case where multiple calls to a single handler may need
573to communicate using an application data structure is the case when
574content passed to the character data handler (set by <code><a href=
575"#XML_SetCharacterDataHandler"
576>XML_SetCharacterDataHandler</a></code>) needs to be accumulated. A
577common first-time mistake with any of the event-oriented interfaces to
578an XML parser is to expect all the text contained in an element to be
579reported by a single call to the character data handler. Expat, like
580many other XML parsers, reports such data as a sequence of calls;
581there's no way to know when the end of the sequence is reached until a
582different callback is made. A buffer referenced by the user data
583structure proves both an effective and convenient place to accumulate
584character data.</p>
585
586<!-- XXX example needed here -->
587
588
589<h3>XML Version</h3>
590
591<p>Expat is an XML 1.0 parser, and as such never complains based on
592the value of the <code>version</code> pseudo-attribute in the XML
593declaration, if present.</p>
594
595<p>If an application needs to check the version number (to support
596alternate processing), it should use the <code><a href=
597"#XML_SetXmlDeclHandler" >XML_SetXmlDeclHandler</a></code> function to
598set a handler that uses the information in the XML declaration to
599determine what to do. This example shows how to check that only a
600version number of <code>"1.0"</code> is accepted:</p>
601
602<pre class="eg">
603static int wrong_version;
604static XML_Parser parser;
605
606static void XMLCALL
607xmldecl_handler(void *userData,
608 const XML_Char *version,
609 const XML_Char *encoding,
610 int standalone)
611{
612 static const XML_Char Version_1_0[] = {'1', '.', '0', 0};
613
614 int i;
615
616 for (i = 0; i &lt; (sizeof(Version_1_0) / sizeof(Version_1_0[0])); ++i) {
617 if (version[i] != Version_1_0[i]) {
618 wrong_version = 1;
619 /* also clear all other handlers: */
620 XML_SetCharacterDataHandler(parser, NULL);
621 ...
622 return;
623 }
624 }
625 ...
626}
627</pre>
628
629<h3>Namespace Processing</h3>
630
631<p>When the parser is created using the <code><a href=
632"#XML_ParserCreateNS" >XML_ParserCreateNS</a></code>, function, Expat
633performs namespace processing. Under namespace processing, Expat
634consumes <code>xmlns</code> and <code>xmlns:...</code> attributes,
635which declare namespaces for the scope of the element in which they
636occur. This means that your start handler will not see these
637attributes. Your application can still be informed of these
638declarations by setting namespace declaration handlers with <a href=
639"#XML_SetNamespaceDeclHandler"
640><code>XML_SetNamespaceDeclHandler</code></a>.</p>
641
642<p>Element type and attribute names that belong to a given namespace
643are passed to the appropriate handler in expanded form. By default
644this expanded form is a concatenation of the namespace URI, the
645separator character (which is the 2nd argument to <code><a href=
646"#XML_ParserCreateNS" >XML_ParserCreateNS</a></code>), and the local
647name (i.e. the part after the colon). Names with undeclared prefixes
648are not well-formed when namespace processing is enabled, and will
649trigger an error. Unprefixed attribute names are never expanded,
650and unprefixed element names are only expanded when they are in the
651scope of a default namespace.</p>
652
653<p>However if <code><a href= "#XML_SetReturnNSTriplet"
654>XML_SetReturnNSTriplet</a></code> has been called with a non-zero
655<code>do_nst</code> parameter, then the expanded form for names with
656an explicit prefix is a concatenation of: URI, separator, local name,
657separator, prefix.</p>
658
659<p>You can set handlers for the start of a namespace declaration and
660for the end of a scope of a declaration with the <code><a href=
661"#XML_SetNamespaceDeclHandler" >XML_SetNamespaceDeclHandler</a></code>
662function. The StartNamespaceDeclHandler is called prior to the start
663tag handler and the EndNamespaceDeclHandler is called after the
664corresponding end tag that ends the namespace's scope. The namespace
665start handler gets passed the prefix and URI for the namespace. For a
666default namespace declaration (xmlns='...'), the prefix will be null.
667The URI will be null for the case where the default namespace is being
668unset. The namespace end handler just gets the prefix for the closing
669scope.</p>
670
671<p>These handlers are called for each declaration. So if, for
672instance, a start tag had three namespace declarations, then the
673StartNamespaceDeclHandler would be called three times before the start
674tag handler is called, once for each declaration.</p>
675
676<h3>Character Encodings</h3>
677
678<p>While XML is based on Unicode, and every XML processor is required
679to recognized UTF-8 and UTF-16 (1 and 2 byte encodings of Unicode),
680other encodings may be declared in XML documents or entities. For the
681main document, an XML declaration may contain an encoding
682declaration:</p>
683<pre>
684&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2"?&gt;
685</pre>
686
687<p>External parsed entities may begin with a text declaration, which
688looks like an XML declaration with just an encoding declaration:</p>
689<pre>
690&lt;?xml encoding="Big5"?&gt;
691</pre>
692
693<p>With Expat, you may also specify an encoding at the time of
694creating a parser. This is useful when the encoding information may
695come from a source outside the document itself (like a higher level
696protocol.)</p>
697
698<p><a name="builtin_encodings"></a>There are four built-in encodings
699in Expat:</p>
700<ul>
701<li>UTF-8</li>
702<li>UTF-16</li>
703<li>ISO-8859-1</li>
704<li>US-ASCII</li>
705</ul>
706
707<p>Anything else discovered in an encoding declaration or in the
708protocol encoding specified in the parser constructor, triggers a call
709to the <code>UnknownEncodingHandler</code>. This handler gets passed
710the encoding name and a pointer to an <code>XML_Encoding</code> data
711structure. Your handler must fill in this structure and return
712<code>XML_STATUS_OK</code> if it knows how to deal with the
713encoding. Otherwise the handler should return
714<code>XML_STATUS_ERROR</code>. The handler also gets passed a pointer
715to an optional application data structure that you may indicate when
716you set the handler.</p>
717
718<p>Expat places restrictions on character encodings that it can
719support by filling in the <code>XML_Encoding</code> structure.
720include file:</p>
721<ol>
722<li>Every ASCII character that can appear in a well-formed XML document
723must be represented by a single byte, and that byte must correspond to
724it's ASCII encoding (except for the characters $@\^'{}~)</li>
725<li>Characters must be encoded in 4 bytes or less.</li>
726<li>All characters encoded must have Unicode scalar values less than or
727equal to 65535 (0xFFFF)<em>This does not apply to the built-in support
728for UTF-16 and UTF-8</em></li>
729<li>No character may be encoded by more that one distinct sequence of
730bytes</li>
731</ol>
732
733<p><code>XML_Encoding</code> contains an array of integers that
734correspond to the 1st byte of an encoding sequence. If the value in
735the array for a byte is zero or positive, then the byte is a single
736byte encoding that encodes the Unicode scalar value contained in the
737array. A -1 in this array indicates a malformed byte. If the value is
738-2, -3, or -4, then the byte is the beginning of a 2, 3, or 4 byte
739sequence respectively. Multi-byte sequences are sent to the convert
740function pointed at in the <code>XML_Encoding</code> structure. This
741function should return the Unicode scalar value for the sequence or -1
742if the sequence is malformed.</p>
743
744<p>One pitfall that novice Expat users are likely to fall into is that
745although Expat may accept input in various encodings, the strings that
746it passes to the handlers are always encoded in UTF-8 or UTF-16
747(depending on how Expat was compiled). Your application is responsible
748for any translation of these strings into other encodings.</p>
749
750<h3>Handling External Entity References</h3>
751
752<p>Expat does not read or parse external entities directly. Note that
753any external DTD is a special case of an external entity. If you've
754set no <code>ExternalEntityRefHandler</code>, then external entity
755references are silently ignored. Otherwise, it calls your handler with
756the information needed to read and parse the external entity.</p>
757
758<p>Your handler isn't actually responsible for parsing the entity, but
759it is responsible for creating a subsidiary parser with <code><a href=
760"#XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate"
761>XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate</a></code> that will do the job. This
762returns an instance of <code>XML_Parser</code> that has handlers and
763other data structures initialized from the parent parser. You may then
764use <code><a href= "#XML_Parse" >XML_Parse</a></code> or <code><a
765href= "#XML_ParseBuffer">XML_ParseBuffer</a></code> calls against this
766parser. Since external entities my refer to other external entities,
767your handler should be prepared to be called recursively.</p>
768
769<h3>Parsing DTDs</h3>
770
771<p>In order to parse parameter entities, before starting the parse,
772you must call <code><a href= "#XML_SetParamEntityParsing"
773>XML_SetParamEntityParsing</a></code> with one of the following
774arguments:</p>
775<dl>
776<dt><code>XML_PARAM_ENTITY_PARSING_NEVER</code></dt>
777<dd>Don't parse parameter entities or the external subset</dd>
778<dt><code>XML_PARAM_ENTITY_PARSING_UNLESS_STANDALONE</code></dt>
Elliott Hughes72472942018-01-10 08:36:10 -0800779<dd>Parse parameter entities and the external subset unless
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800780<code>standalone</code> was set to "yes" in the XML declaration.</dd>
781<dt><code>XML_PARAM_ENTITY_PARSING_ALWAYS</code></dt>
782<dd>Always parse parameter entities and the external subset</dd>
783</dl>
784
785<p>In order to read an external DTD, you also have to set an external
786entity reference handler as described above.</p>
787
788<h3 id="stop-resume">Temporarily Stopping Parsing</h3>
789
790<p>Expat 1.95.8 introduces a new feature: its now possible to stop
791parsing temporarily from within a handler function, even if more data
792has already been passed into the parser. Applications for this
793include</p>
794
795<ul>
796 <li>Supporting the <a href= "http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/"
797 >XInclude</a> specification.</li>
798
799 <li>Delaying further processing until additional information is
800 available from some other source.</li>
801
802 <li>Adjusting processor load as task priorities shift within an
803 application.</li>
804
805 <li>Stopping parsing completely (simply free or reset the parser
806 instead of resuming in the outer parsing loop). This can be useful
Elliott Hughes72472942018-01-10 08:36:10 -0800807 if an application-domain error is found in the XML being parsed or if
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800808 the result of the parse is determined not to be useful after
809 all.</li>
810</ul>
811
812<p>To take advantage of this feature, the main parsing loop of an
813application needs to support this specifically. It cannot be
814supported with a parsing loop compatible with Expat 1.95.7 or
815earlier (though existing loops will continue to work without
816supporting the stop/resume feature).</p>
817
818<p>An application that uses this feature for a single parser will have
819the rough structure (in pseudo-code):</p>
820
821<pre class="pseudocode">
822fd = open_input()
823p = create_parser()
824
825if parse_xml(p, fd) {
826 /* suspended */
827
828 int suspended = 1;
829
830 while (suspended) {
831 do_something_else()
832 if ready_to_resume() {
833 suspended = continue_parsing(p, fd);
834 }
835 }
836}
837</pre>
838
839<p>An application that may resume any of several parsers based on
840input (either from the XML being parsed or some other source) will
841certainly have more interesting control structures.</p>
842
843<p>This C function could be used for the <code>parse_xml</code>
844function mentioned in the pseudo-code above:</p>
845
846<pre class="eg">
847#define BUFF_SIZE 10240
848
849/* Parse a document from the open file descriptor 'fd' until the parse
850 is complete (the document has been completely parsed, or there's
851 been an error), or the parse is stopped. Return non-zero when
852 the parse is merely suspended.
853*/
854int
855parse_xml(XML_Parser p, int fd)
856{
857 for (;;) {
858 int last_chunk;
859 int bytes_read;
860 enum XML_Status status;
861
862 void *buff = XML_GetBuffer(p, BUFF_SIZE);
863 if (buff == NULL) {
864 /* handle error... */
865 return 0;
866 }
867 bytes_read = read(fd, buff, BUFF_SIZE);
868 if (bytes_read &lt; 0) {
869 /* handle error... */
870 return 0;
871 }
872 status = XML_ParseBuffer(p, bytes_read, bytes_read == 0);
873 switch (status) {
874 case XML_STATUS_ERROR:
875 /* handle error... */
876 return 0;
877 case XML_STATUS_SUSPENDED:
878 return 1;
879 }
880 if (bytes_read == 0)
881 return 0;
882 }
883}
884</pre>
885
886<p>The corresponding <code>continue_parsing</code> function is
887somewhat simpler, since it only need deal with the return code from
888<code><a href= "#XML_ResumeParser">XML_ResumeParser</a></code>; it can
889delegate the input handling to the <code>parse_xml</code>
890function:</p>
891
892<pre class="eg">
893/* Continue parsing a document which had been suspended. The 'p' and
894 'fd' arguments are the same as passed to parse_xml(). Return
895 non-zero when the parse is suspended.
896*/
897int
898continue_parsing(XML_Parser p, int fd)
899{
900 enum XML_Status status = XML_ResumeParser(p);
901 switch (status) {
902 case XML_STATUS_ERROR:
903 /* handle error... */
904 return 0;
905 case XML_ERROR_NOT_SUSPENDED:
906 /* handle error... */
907 return 0;.
908 case XML_STATUS_SUSPENDED:
909 return 1;
910 }
911 return parse_xml(p, fd);
912}
913</pre>
914
915<p>Now that we've seen what a mess the top-level parsing loop can
916become, what have we gained? Very simply, we can now use the <code><a
917href= "#XML_StopParser" >XML_StopParser</a></code> function to stop
918parsing, without having to go to great lengths to avoid additional
919processing that we're expecting to ignore. As a bonus, we get to stop
920parsing <em>temporarily</em>, and come back to it when we're
921ready.</p>
922
923<p>To stop parsing from a handler function, use the <code><a href=
924"#XML_StopParser" >XML_StopParser</a></code> function. This function
925takes two arguments; the parser being stopped and a flag indicating
926whether the parse can be resumed in the future.</p>
927
928<!-- XXX really need more here -->
929
930
931<hr />
932<!-- ================================================================ -->
933
934<h2><a name="reference">Expat Reference</a></h2>
935
936<h3><a name="creation">Parser Creation</a></h3>
937
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -0700938<h4 id="XML_ParserCreate">XML_ParserCreate</h4>
939<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800940XML_Parser XMLCALL
941XML_ParserCreate(const XML_Char *encoding);
942</pre>
943<div class="fcndef">
944Construct a new parser. If encoding is non-null, it specifies a
945character encoding to use for the document. This overrides the document
946encoding declaration. There are four built-in encodings:
947<ul>
948<li>US-ASCII</li>
949<li>UTF-8</li>
950<li>UTF-16</li>
951<li>ISO-8859-1</li>
952</ul>
953Any other value will invoke a call to the UnknownEncodingHandler.
954</div>
955
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -0700956<h4 id="XML_ParserCreateNS">XML_ParserCreateNS</h4>
957<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800958XML_Parser XMLCALL
959XML_ParserCreateNS(const XML_Char *encoding,
960 XML_Char sep);
961</pre>
962<div class="fcndef">
963Constructs a new parser that has namespace processing in effect. Namespace
964expanded element names and attribute names are returned as a concatenation
965of the namespace URI, <em>sep</em>, and the local part of the name. This
Elliott Hughes35e432d2012-09-09 14:23:38 -0700966means that you should pick a character for <em>sep</em> that can't be part
967of an URI. Since Expat does not check namespace URIs for conformance, the
968only safe choice for a namespace separator is a character that is illegal
969in XML. For instance, <code>'\xFF'</code> is not legal in UTF-8, and
970<code>'\xFFFF'</code> is not legal in UTF-16. There is a special case when
971<em>sep</em> is the null character <code>'\0'</code>: the namespace URI and
972the local part will be concatenated without any separator - this is intended
973to support RDF processors. It is a programming error to use the null separator
974with <a href= "#XML_SetReturnNSTriplet">namespace triplets</a>.</div>
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800975
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -0700976<h4 id="XML_ParserCreate_MM">XML_ParserCreate_MM</h4>
977<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -0800978XML_Parser XMLCALL
979XML_ParserCreate_MM(const XML_Char *encoding,
980 const XML_Memory_Handling_Suite *ms,
981 const XML_Char *sep);
982</pre>
983<pre class="signature">
984typedef struct {
985 void *(XMLCALL *malloc_fcn)(size_t size);
986 void *(XMLCALL *realloc_fcn)(void *ptr, size_t size);
987 void (XMLCALL *free_fcn)(void *ptr);
988} XML_Memory_Handling_Suite;
989</pre>
990<div class="fcndef">
991<p>Construct a new parser using the suite of memory handling functions
992specified in <code>ms</code>. If <code>ms</code> is NULL, then use the
993standard set of memory management functions. If <code>sep</code> is
994non NULL, then namespace processing is enabled in the created parser
995and the character pointed at by sep is used as the separator between
996the namespace URI and the local part of the name.</p>
997</div>
998
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -0700999<h4 id="XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate">XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate</h4>
1000<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001001XML_Parser XMLCALL
1002XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate(XML_Parser p,
1003 const XML_Char *context,
1004 const XML_Char *encoding);
1005</pre>
1006<div class="fcndef">
1007Construct a new <code>XML_Parser</code> object for parsing an external
1008general entity. Context is the context argument passed in a call to a
1009ExternalEntityRefHandler. Other state information such as handlers,
1010user data, namespace processing is inherited from the parser passed as
1011the 1st argument. So you shouldn't need to call any of the behavior
1012changing functions on this parser (unless you want it to act
1013differently than the parent parser).
1014</div>
1015
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001016<h4 id="XML_ParserFree">XML_ParserFree</h4>
1017<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001018void XMLCALL
1019XML_ParserFree(XML_Parser p);
1020</pre>
1021<div class="fcndef">
1022Free memory used by the parser. Your application is responsible for
1023freeing any memory associated with <a href="#userdata">user data</a>.
1024</div>
1025
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001026<h4 id="XML_ParserReset">XML_ParserReset</h4>
1027<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001028XML_Bool XMLCALL
1029XML_ParserReset(XML_Parser p,
1030 const XML_Char *encoding);
1031</pre>
1032<div class="fcndef">
1033Clean up the memory structures maintained by the parser so that it may
1034be used again. After this has been called, <code>parser</code> is
1035ready to start parsing a new document. All handlers are cleared from
1036the parser, except for the unknownEncodingHandler. The parser's external
1037state is re-initialized except for the values of ns and ns_triplets.
1038This function may not be used on a parser created using <code><a href=
1039"#XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate" >XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate</a
1040></code>; it will return <code>XML_FALSE</code> in that case. Returns
1041<code>XML_TRUE</code> on success. Your application is responsible for
1042dealing with any memory associated with <a href="#userdata">user data</a>.
1043</div>
1044
1045<h3><a name="parsing">Parsing</a></h3>
1046
1047<p>To state the obvious: the three parsing functions <code><a href=
1048"#XML_Parse" >XML_Parse</a></code>, <code><a href= "#XML_ParseBuffer">
1049XML_ParseBuffer</a></code> and <code><a href= "#XML_GetBuffer">
1050XML_GetBuffer</a></code> must not be called from within a handler
1051unless they operate on a separate parser instance, that is, one that
1052did not call the handler. For example, it is OK to call the parsing
1053functions from within an <code>XML_ExternalEntityRefHandler</code>,
1054if they apply to the parser created by
1055<code><a href= "#XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate"
1056>XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate</a></code>.</p>
1057
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001058<p>Note: The <code>len</code> argument passed to these functions
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001059should be considerably less than the maximum value for an integer,
1060as it could create an integer overflow situation if the added
1061lengths of a buffer and the unprocessed portion of the previous buffer
1062exceed the maximum integer value. Input data at the end of a buffer
1063will remain unprocessed if it is part of an XML token for which the
1064end is not part of that buffer.</p>
1065
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001066<h4 id="XML_Parse">XML_Parse</h4>
1067<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001068enum XML_Status XMLCALL
1069XML_Parse(XML_Parser p,
1070 const char *s,
1071 int len,
1072 int isFinal);
1073</pre>
1074<pre class="signature">
1075enum XML_Status {
1076 XML_STATUS_ERROR = 0,
1077 XML_STATUS_OK = 1
1078};
1079</pre>
1080<div class="fcndef">
1081Parse some more of the document. The string <code>s</code> is a buffer
1082containing part (or perhaps all) of the document. The number of bytes of s
1083that are part of the document is indicated by <code>len</code>. This means
1084that <code>s</code> doesn't have to be null terminated. It also means that
1085if <code>len</code> is larger than the number of bytes in the block of
1086memory that <code>s</code> points at, then a memory fault is likely. The
1087<code>isFinal</code> parameter informs the parser that this is the last
1088piece of the document. Frequently, the last piece is empty (i.e.
1089<code>len</code> is zero.)
1090If a parse error occurred, it returns <code>XML_STATUS_ERROR</code>.
1091Otherwise it returns <code>XML_STATUS_OK</code> value.
1092</div>
1093
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001094<h4 id="XML_ParseBuffer">XML_ParseBuffer</h4>
1095<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001096enum XML_Status XMLCALL
1097XML_ParseBuffer(XML_Parser p,
1098 int len,
1099 int isFinal);
1100</pre>
1101<div class="fcndef">
1102This is just like <code><a href= "#XML_Parse" >XML_Parse</a></code>,
1103except in this case Expat provides the buffer. By obtaining the
1104buffer from Expat with the <code><a href= "#XML_GetBuffer"
1105>XML_GetBuffer</a></code> function, the application can avoid double
1106copying of the input.
1107</div>
1108
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001109<h4 id="XML_GetBuffer">XML_GetBuffer</h4>
1110<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001111void * XMLCALL
1112XML_GetBuffer(XML_Parser p,
1113 int len);
1114</pre>
1115<div class="fcndef">
1116Obtain a buffer of size <code>len</code> to read a piece of the document
1117into. A NULL value is returned if Expat can't allocate enough memory for
1118this buffer. This has to be called prior to every call to
1119<code><a href= "#XML_ParseBuffer" >XML_ParseBuffer</a></code>. A
1120typical use would look like this:
1121
1122<pre class="eg">
1123for (;;) {
1124 int bytes_read;
1125 void *buff = XML_GetBuffer(p, BUFF_SIZE);
1126 if (buff == NULL) {
1127 /* handle error */
1128 }
1129
1130 bytes_read = read(docfd, buff, BUFF_SIZE);
1131 if (bytes_read &lt; 0) {
1132 /* handle error */
1133 }
1134
1135 if (! XML_ParseBuffer(p, bytes_read, bytes_read == 0)) {
1136 /* handle parse error */
1137 }
1138
1139 if (bytes_read == 0)
1140 break;
1141}
1142</pre>
1143</div>
1144
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001145<h4 id="XML_StopParser">XML_StopParser</h4>
1146<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001147enum XML_Status XMLCALL
1148XML_StopParser(XML_Parser p,
1149 XML_Bool resumable);
1150</pre>
1151<div class="fcndef">
1152
1153<p>Stops parsing, causing <code><a href= "#XML_Parse"
1154>XML_Parse</a></code> or <code><a href= "#XML_ParseBuffer"
1155>XML_ParseBuffer</a></code> to return. Must be called from within a
1156call-back handler, except when aborting (when <code>resumable</code>
1157is <code>XML_FALSE</code>) an already suspended parser. Some
1158call-backs may still follow because they would otherwise get
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001159lost, including</p>
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001160<ul>
1161 <li> the end element handler for empty elements when stopped in the
1162 start element handler,</li>
Elliott Hughesd07d5a72009-09-25 16:04:37 -07001163 <li> the end namespace declaration handler when stopped in the end
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001164 element handler,</li>
Elliott Hughesd07d5a72009-09-25 16:04:37 -07001165 <li> the character data handler when stopped in the character data handler
1166 while making multiple call-backs on a contiguous chunk of characters,</li>
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001167</ul>
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001168<p>and possibly others.</p>
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001169
1170<p>This can be called from most handlers, including DTD related
1171call-backs, except when parsing an external parameter entity and
1172<code>resumable</code> is <code>XML_TRUE</code>. Returns
1173<code>XML_STATUS_OK</code> when successful,
1174<code>XML_STATUS_ERROR</code> otherwise. The possible error codes
1175are:</p>
1176<dl>
1177 <dt><code>XML_ERROR_SUSPENDED</code></dt>
1178 <dd>when suspending an already suspended parser.</dd>
1179 <dt><code>XML_ERROR_FINISHED</code></dt>
1180 <dd>when the parser has already finished.</dd>
1181 <dt><code>XML_ERROR_SUSPEND_PE</code></dt>
1182 <dd>when suspending while parsing an external PE.</dd>
1183</dl>
1184
1185<p>Since the stop/resume feature requires application support in the
1186outer parsing loop, it is an error to call this function for a parser
1187not being handled appropriately; see <a href= "#stop-resume"
1188>Temporarily Stopping Parsing</a> for more information.</p>
1189
1190<p>When <code>resumable</code> is <code>XML_TRUE</code> then parsing
1191is <em>suspended</em>, that is, <code><a href= "#XML_Parse"
1192>XML_Parse</a></code> and <code><a href= "#XML_ParseBuffer"
1193>XML_ParseBuffer</a></code> return <code>XML_STATUS_SUSPENDED</code>.
1194Otherwise, parsing is <em>aborted</em>, that is, <code><a href=
1195"#XML_Parse" >XML_Parse</a></code> and <code><a href=
1196"#XML_ParseBuffer" >XML_ParseBuffer</a></code> return
1197<code>XML_STATUS_ERROR</code> with error code
1198<code>XML_ERROR_ABORTED</code>.</p>
1199
1200<p><strong>Note:</strong>
1201This will be applied to the current parser instance only, that is, if
1202there is a parent parser then it will continue parsing when the
1203external entity reference handler returns. It is up to the
1204implementation of that handler to call <code><a href=
1205"#XML_StopParser" >XML_StopParser</a></code> on the parent parser
1206(recursively), if one wants to stop parsing altogether.</p>
1207
1208<p>When suspended, parsing can be resumed by calling <code><a href=
1209"#XML_ResumeParser" >XML_ResumeParser</a></code>.</p>
1210
1211<p>New in Expat 1.95.8.</p>
1212</div>
1213
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001214<h4 id="XML_ResumeParser">XML_ResumeParser</h4>
1215<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001216enum XML_Status XMLCALL
1217XML_ResumeParser(XML_Parser p);
1218</pre>
1219<div class="fcndef">
1220<p>Resumes parsing after it has been suspended with <code><a href=
1221"#XML_StopParser" >XML_StopParser</a></code>. Must not be called from
1222within a handler call-back. Returns same status codes as <code><a
1223href= "#XML_Parse">XML_Parse</a></code> or <code><a href=
1224"#XML_ParseBuffer" >XML_ParseBuffer</a></code>. An additional error
1225code, <code>XML_ERROR_NOT_SUSPENDED</code>, will be returned if the
1226parser was not currently suspended.</p>
1227
1228<p><strong>Note:</strong>
1229This must be called on the most deeply nested child parser instance
1230first, and on its parent parser only after the child parser has
1231finished, to be applied recursively until the document entity's parser
1232is restarted. That is, the parent parser will not resume by itself
1233and it is up to the application to call <code><a href=
1234"#XML_ResumeParser" >XML_ResumeParser</a></code> on it at the
1235appropriate moment.</p>
1236
1237<p>New in Expat 1.95.8.</p>
1238</div>
1239
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001240<h4 id="XML_GetParsingStatus">XML_GetParsingStatus</h4>
1241<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001242void XMLCALL
1243XML_GetParsingStatus(XML_Parser p,
1244 XML_ParsingStatus *status);
1245</pre>
1246<pre class="signature">
1247enum XML_Parsing {
1248 XML_INITIALIZED,
1249 XML_PARSING,
1250 XML_FINISHED,
1251 XML_SUSPENDED
1252};
1253
1254typedef struct {
1255 enum XML_Parsing parsing;
1256 XML_Bool finalBuffer;
1257} XML_ParsingStatus;
1258</pre>
1259<div class="fcndef">
1260<p>Returns status of parser with respect to being initialized,
1261parsing, finished, or suspended, and whether the final buffer is being
1262processed. The <code>status</code> parameter <em>must not</em> be
1263NULL.</p>
1264
1265<p>New in Expat 1.95.8.</p>
1266</div>
1267
1268
1269<h3><a name="setting">Handler Setting</a></h3>
1270
1271<p>Although handlers are typically set prior to parsing and left alone, an
1272application may choose to set or change the handler for a parsing event
1273while the parse is in progress. For instance, your application may choose
1274to ignore all text not descended from a <code>para</code> element. One
1275way it could do this is to set the character handler when a para start tag
1276is seen, and unset it for the corresponding end tag.</p>
1277
1278<p>A handler may be <em>unset</em> by providing a NULL pointer to the
1279appropriate handler setter. None of the handler setting functions have
1280a return value.</p>
1281
1282<p>Your handlers will be receiving strings in arrays of type
1283<code>XML_Char</code>. This type is conditionally defined in expat.h as
1284either <code>char</code>, <code>wchar_t</code> or <code>unsigned short</code>.
1285The former implies UTF-8 encoding, the latter two imply UTF-16 encoding.
1286Note that you'll receive them in this form independent of the original
1287encoding of the document.</p>
1288
1289<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001290<h4 id="XML_SetStartElementHandler">XML_SetStartElementHandler</h4>
1291<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001292void XMLCALL
1293XML_SetStartElementHandler(XML_Parser p,
1294 XML_StartElementHandler start);
1295</pre>
1296<pre class="signature">
1297typedef void
1298(XMLCALL *XML_StartElementHandler)(void *userData,
1299 const XML_Char *name,
1300 const XML_Char **atts);
1301</pre>
1302<p>Set handler for start (and empty) tags. Attributes are passed to the start
1303handler as a pointer to a vector of char pointers. Each attribute seen in
1304a start (or empty) tag occupies 2 consecutive places in this vector: the
1305attribute name followed by the attribute value. These pairs are terminated
1306by a null pointer.</p>
1307<p>Note that an empty tag generates a call to both start and end handlers
1308(in that order).</p>
1309</div>
1310
1311<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001312<h4 id="XML_SetEndElementHandler">XML_SetEndElementHandler</h4>
1313<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001314void XMLCALL
1315XML_SetEndElementHandler(XML_Parser p,
1316 XML_EndElementHandler);
1317</pre>
1318<pre class="signature">
1319typedef void
1320(XMLCALL *XML_EndElementHandler)(void *userData,
1321 const XML_Char *name);
1322</pre>
1323<p>Set handler for end (and empty) tags. As noted above, an empty tag
1324generates a call to both start and end handlers.</p>
1325</div>
1326
1327<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001328<h4 id="XML_SetElementHandler">XML_SetElementHandler</h4>
1329<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001330void XMLCALL
1331XML_SetElementHandler(XML_Parser p,
1332 XML_StartElementHandler start,
1333 XML_EndElementHandler end);
1334</pre>
1335<p>Set handlers for start and end tags with one call.</p>
1336</div>
1337
1338<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001339<h4 id="XML_SetCharacterDataHandler">XML_SetCharacterDataHandler</h4>
1340<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001341void XMLCALL
1342XML_SetCharacterDataHandler(XML_Parser p,
1343 XML_CharacterDataHandler charhndl)
1344</pre>
1345<pre class="signature">
1346typedef void
1347(XMLCALL *XML_CharacterDataHandler)(void *userData,
1348 const XML_Char *s,
1349 int len);
1350</pre>
1351<p>Set a text handler. The string your handler receives
Haibo Huangd1a324a2020-10-28 22:19:36 -07001352is <em>NOT null-terminated</em>. You have to use the length argument
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001353to deal with the end of the string. A single block of contiguous text
1354free of markup may still result in a sequence of calls to this handler.
1355In other words, if you're searching for a pattern in the text, it may
Elliott Hughesd07d5a72009-09-25 16:04:37 -07001356be split across calls to this handler. Note: Setting this handler to NULL
1357may <em>NOT immediately</em> terminate call-backs if the parser is currently
1358processing such a single block of contiguous markup-free text, as the parser
1359will continue calling back until the end of the block is reached.</p>
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001360</div>
1361
1362<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001363<h4 id="XML_SetProcessingInstructionHandler">XML_SetProcessingInstructionHandler</h4>
1364<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001365void XMLCALL
1366XML_SetProcessingInstructionHandler(XML_Parser p,
1367 XML_ProcessingInstructionHandler proc)
1368</pre>
1369<pre class="signature">
1370typedef void
1371(XMLCALL *XML_ProcessingInstructionHandler)(void *userData,
1372 const XML_Char *target,
1373 const XML_Char *data);
1374
1375</pre>
1376<p>Set a handler for processing instructions. The target is the first word
1377in the processing instruction. The data is the rest of the characters in
1378it after skipping all whitespace after the initial word.</p>
1379</div>
1380
1381<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001382<h4 id="XML_SetCommentHandler">XML_SetCommentHandler</h4>
1383<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001384void XMLCALL
1385XML_SetCommentHandler(XML_Parser p,
1386 XML_CommentHandler cmnt)
1387</pre>
1388<pre class="signature">
1389typedef void
1390(XMLCALL *XML_CommentHandler)(void *userData,
1391 const XML_Char *data);
1392</pre>
1393<p>Set a handler for comments. The data is all text inside the comment
1394delimiters.</p>
1395</div>
1396
1397<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001398<h4 id="XML_SetStartCdataSectionHandler">XML_SetStartCdataSectionHandler</h4>
1399<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001400void XMLCALL
1401XML_SetStartCdataSectionHandler(XML_Parser p,
1402 XML_StartCdataSectionHandler start);
1403</pre>
1404<pre class="signature">
1405typedef void
1406(XMLCALL *XML_StartCdataSectionHandler)(void *userData);
1407</pre>
1408<p>Set a handler that gets called at the beginning of a CDATA section.</p>
1409</div>
1410
1411<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001412<h4 id="XML_SetEndCdataSectionHandler">XML_SetEndCdataSectionHandler</h4>
1413<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001414void XMLCALL
1415XML_SetEndCdataSectionHandler(XML_Parser p,
1416 XML_EndCdataSectionHandler end);
1417</pre>
1418<pre class="signature">
1419typedef void
1420(XMLCALL *XML_EndCdataSectionHandler)(void *userData);
1421</pre>
1422<p>Set a handler that gets called at the end of a CDATA section.</p>
1423</div>
1424
1425<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001426<h4 id="XML_SetCdataSectionHandler">XML_SetCdataSectionHandler</h4>
1427<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001428void XMLCALL
1429XML_SetCdataSectionHandler(XML_Parser p,
1430 XML_StartCdataSectionHandler start,
1431 XML_EndCdataSectionHandler end)
1432</pre>
1433<p>Sets both CDATA section handlers with one call.</p>
1434</div>
1435
1436<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001437<h4 id="XML_SetDefaultHandler">XML_SetDefaultHandler</h4>
1438<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001439void XMLCALL
1440XML_SetDefaultHandler(XML_Parser p,
1441 XML_DefaultHandler hndl)
1442</pre>
1443<pre class="signature">
1444typedef void
1445(XMLCALL *XML_DefaultHandler)(void *userData,
1446 const XML_Char *s,
1447 int len);
1448</pre>
1449
1450<p>Sets a handler for any characters in the document which wouldn't
1451otherwise be handled. This includes both data for which no handlers
1452can be set (like some kinds of DTD declarations) and data which could
1453be reported but which currently has no handler set. The characters
1454are passed exactly as they were present in the XML document except
1455that they will be encoded in UTF-8 or UTF-16. Line boundaries are not
1456normalized. Note that a byte order mark character is not passed to the
1457default handler. There are no guarantees about how characters are
1458divided between calls to the default handler: for example, a comment
1459might be split between multiple calls. Setting the handler with
1460this call has the side effect of turning off expansion of references
1461to internally defined general entities. Instead these references are
1462passed to the default handler.</p>
1463
1464<p>See also <code><a
1465href="#XML_DefaultCurrent">XML_DefaultCurrent</a></code>.</p>
1466</div>
1467
1468<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001469<h4 id="XML_SetDefaultHandlerExpand">XML_SetDefaultHandlerExpand</h4>
1470<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001471void XMLCALL
1472XML_SetDefaultHandlerExpand(XML_Parser p,
1473 XML_DefaultHandler hndl)
1474</pre>
1475<pre class="signature">
1476typedef void
1477(XMLCALL *XML_DefaultHandler)(void *userData,
1478 const XML_Char *s,
1479 int len);
1480</pre>
1481<p>This sets a default handler, but doesn't inhibit the expansion of
1482internal entity references. The entity reference will not be passed
1483to the default handler.</p>
1484
1485<p>See also <code><a
1486href="#XML_DefaultCurrent">XML_DefaultCurrent</a></code>.</p>
1487</div>
1488
1489<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001490<h4 id="XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler">XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler</h4>
1491<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001492void XMLCALL
1493XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler(XML_Parser p,
1494 XML_ExternalEntityRefHandler hndl)
1495</pre>
1496<pre class="signature">
1497typedef int
1498(XMLCALL *XML_ExternalEntityRefHandler)(XML_Parser p,
1499 const XML_Char *context,
1500 const XML_Char *base,
1501 const XML_Char *systemId,
1502 const XML_Char *publicId);
1503</pre>
1504<p>Set an external entity reference handler. This handler is also
1505called for processing an external DTD subset if parameter entity parsing
1506is in effect. (See <a href="#XML_SetParamEntityParsing">
1507<code>XML_SetParamEntityParsing</code></a>.)</p>
1508
1509<p>The <code>context</code> parameter specifies the parsing context in
1510the format expected by the <code>context</code> argument to <code><a
1511href="#XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate"
1512>XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate</a></code>. <code>code</code> is
1513valid only until the handler returns, so if the referenced entity is
1514to be parsed later, it must be copied. <code>context</code> is NULL
1515only when the entity is a parameter entity, which is how one can
1516differentiate between general and parameter entities.</p>
1517
1518<p>The <code>base</code> parameter is the base to use for relative
1519system identifiers. It is set by <code><a
1520href="#XML_SetBase">XML_SetBase</a></code> and may be NULL. The
1521<code>publicId</code> parameter is the public id given in the entity
1522declaration and may be NULL. <code>systemId</code> is the system
1523identifier specified in the entity declaration and is never NULL.</p>
1524
1525<p>There are a couple of ways in which this handler differs from
1526others. First, this handler returns a status indicator (an
1527integer). <code>XML_STATUS_OK</code> should be returned for successful
1528handling of the external entity reference. Returning
1529<code>XML_STATUS_ERROR</code> indicates failure, and causes the
1530calling parser to return an
1531<code>XML_ERROR_EXTERNAL_ENTITY_HANDLING</code> error.</p>
1532
1533<p>Second, instead of having the user data as its first argument, it
1534receives the parser that encountered the entity reference. This, along
1535with the context parameter, may be used as arguments to a call to
1536<code><a href= "#XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate"
1537>XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate</a></code>. Using the returned
1538parser, the body of the external entity can be recursively parsed.</p>
1539
1540<p>Since this handler may be called recursively, it should not be saving
1541information into global or static variables.</p>
1542</div>
1543
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001544<h4 id="XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandlerArg">XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandlerArg</h4>
1545<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001546void XMLCALL
1547XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandlerArg(XML_Parser p,
1548 void *arg)
1549</pre>
1550<div class="fcndef">
1551<p>Set the argument passed to the ExternalEntityRefHandler. If
1552<code>arg</code> is not NULL, it is the new value passed to the
1553handler set using <code><a href="#XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler"
1554>XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler</a></code>; if <code>arg</code> is
1555NULL, the argument passed to the handler function will be the parser
1556object itself.</p>
1557
1558<p><strong>Note:</strong>
1559The type of <code>arg</code> and the type of the first argument to the
1560ExternalEntityRefHandler do not match. This function takes a
1561<code>void *</code> to be passed to the handler, while the handler
1562accepts an <code>XML_Parser</code>. This is a historical accident,
1563but will not be corrected before Expat 2.0 (at the earliest) to avoid
1564causing compiler warnings for code that's known to work with this
1565API. It is the responsibility of the application code to know the
1566actual type of the argument passed to the handler and to manage it
1567properly.</p>
1568</div>
1569
1570<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001571<h4 id="XML_SetSkippedEntityHandler">XML_SetSkippedEntityHandler</h4>
1572<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001573void XMLCALL
1574XML_SetSkippedEntityHandler(XML_Parser p,
1575 XML_SkippedEntityHandler handler)
1576</pre>
1577<pre class="signature">
1578typedef void
1579(XMLCALL *XML_SkippedEntityHandler)(void *userData,
1580 const XML_Char *entityName,
1581 int is_parameter_entity);
1582</pre>
1583<p>Set a skipped entity handler. This is called in two situations:</p>
1584<ol>
1585 <li>An entity reference is encountered for which no declaration
1586 has been read <em>and</em> this is not an error.</li>
1587 <li>An internal entity reference is read, but not expanded, because
1588 <a href="#XML_SetDefaultHandler"><code>XML_SetDefaultHandler</code></a>
1589 has been called.</li>
1590</ol>
1591<p>The <code>is_parameter_entity</code> argument will be non-zero for
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001592a parameter entity and zero for a general entity.</p> <p>Note: Skipped
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001593parameter entities in declarations and skipped general entities in
1594attribute values cannot be reported, because the event would be out of
1595sync with the reporting of the declarations or attribute values</p>
1596</div>
1597
1598<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001599<h4 id="XML_SetUnknownEncodingHandler">XML_SetUnknownEncodingHandler</h4>
1600<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001601void XMLCALL
1602XML_SetUnknownEncodingHandler(XML_Parser p,
1603 XML_UnknownEncodingHandler enchandler,
1604 void *encodingHandlerData)
1605</pre>
1606<pre class="signature">
1607typedef int
1608(XMLCALL *XML_UnknownEncodingHandler)(void *encodingHandlerData,
1609 const XML_Char *name,
1610 XML_Encoding *info);
1611
1612typedef struct {
1613 int map[256];
1614 void *data;
1615 int (XMLCALL *convert)(void *data, const char *s);
1616 void (XMLCALL *release)(void *data);
1617} XML_Encoding;
1618</pre>
1619<p>Set a handler to deal with encodings other than the <a
1620href="#builtin_encodings">built in set</a>. This should be done before
1621<code><a href= "#XML_Parse" >XML_Parse</a></code> or <code><a href=
1622"#XML_ParseBuffer" >XML_ParseBuffer</a></code> have been called on the
1623given parser.</p> <p>If the handler knows how to deal with an encoding
1624with the given name, it should fill in the <code>info</code> data
1625structure and return <code>XML_STATUS_OK</code>. Otherwise it
1626should return <code>XML_STATUS_ERROR</code>. The handler will be called
1627at most once per parsed (external) entity. The optional application
1628data pointer <code>encodingHandlerData</code> will be passed back to
1629the handler.</p>
1630
Elliott Hughes72472942018-01-10 08:36:10 -08001631<p>The map array contains information for every possible leading
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001632byte in a byte sequence. If the corresponding value is &gt;= 0, then it's
1633a single byte sequence and the byte encodes that Unicode value. If the
1634value is -1, then that byte is invalid as the initial byte in a sequence.
1635If the value is -n, where n is an integer &gt; 1, then n is the number of
1636bytes in the sequence and the actual conversion is accomplished by a
1637call to the function pointed at by convert. This function may return -1
1638if the sequence itself is invalid. The convert pointer may be null if
1639there are only single byte codes. The data parameter passed to the convert
1640function is the data pointer from <code>XML_Encoding</code>. The
Haibo Huangd1a324a2020-10-28 22:19:36 -07001641string s is <em>NOT</em> null-terminated and points at the sequence of
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001642bytes to be converted.</p>
1643
1644<p>The function pointed at by <code>release</code> is called by the
1645parser when it is finished with the encoding. It may be NULL.</p>
1646</div>
1647
1648<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001649<h4 id="XML_SetStartNamespaceDeclHandler">XML_SetStartNamespaceDeclHandler</h4>
1650<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001651void XMLCALL
1652XML_SetStartNamespaceDeclHandler(XML_Parser p,
1653 XML_StartNamespaceDeclHandler start);
1654</pre>
1655<pre class="signature">
1656typedef void
1657(XMLCALL *XML_StartNamespaceDeclHandler)(void *userData,
1658 const XML_Char *prefix,
1659 const XML_Char *uri);
1660</pre>
1661<p>Set a handler to be called when a namespace is declared. Namespace
1662declarations occur inside start tags. But the namespace declaration start
1663handler is called before the start tag handler for each namespace declared
1664in that start tag.</p>
1665</div>
1666
1667<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001668<h4 id="XML_SetEndNamespaceDeclHandler">XML_SetEndNamespaceDeclHandler</h4>
1669<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001670void XMLCALL
1671XML_SetEndNamespaceDeclHandler(XML_Parser p,
1672 XML_EndNamespaceDeclHandler end);
1673</pre>
1674<pre class="signature">
1675typedef void
1676(XMLCALL *XML_EndNamespaceDeclHandler)(void *userData,
1677 const XML_Char *prefix);
1678</pre>
1679<p>Set a handler to be called when leaving the scope of a namespace
1680declaration. This will be called, for each namespace declaration,
1681after the handler for the end tag of the element in which the
1682namespace was declared.</p>
1683</div>
1684
1685<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001686<h4 id="XML_SetNamespaceDeclHandler">XML_SetNamespaceDeclHandler</h4>
1687<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001688void XMLCALL
1689XML_SetNamespaceDeclHandler(XML_Parser p,
1690 XML_StartNamespaceDeclHandler start,
1691 XML_EndNamespaceDeclHandler end)
1692</pre>
1693<p>Sets both namespace declaration handlers with a single call.</p>
1694</div>
1695
1696<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001697<h4 id="XML_SetXmlDeclHandler">XML_SetXmlDeclHandler</h4>
1698<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001699void XMLCALL
1700XML_SetXmlDeclHandler(XML_Parser p,
1701 XML_XmlDeclHandler xmldecl);
1702</pre>
1703<pre class="signature">
1704typedef void
1705(XMLCALL *XML_XmlDeclHandler)(void *userData,
1706 const XML_Char *version,
1707 const XML_Char *encoding,
1708 int standalone);
1709</pre>
1710<p>Sets a handler that is called for XML declarations and also for
1711text declarations discovered in external entities. The way to
1712distinguish is that the <code>version</code> parameter will be NULL
1713for text declarations. The <code>encoding</code> parameter may be NULL
1714for an XML declaration. The <code>standalone</code> argument will
1715contain -1, 0, or 1 indicating respectively that there was no
1716standalone parameter in the declaration, that it was given as no, or
1717that it was given as yes.</p>
1718</div>
1719
1720<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001721<h4 id="XML_SetStartDoctypeDeclHandler">XML_SetStartDoctypeDeclHandler</h4>
1722<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001723void XMLCALL
1724XML_SetStartDoctypeDeclHandler(XML_Parser p,
1725 XML_StartDoctypeDeclHandler start);
1726</pre>
1727<pre class="signature">
1728typedef void
1729(XMLCALL *XML_StartDoctypeDeclHandler)(void *userData,
1730 const XML_Char *doctypeName,
1731 const XML_Char *sysid,
1732 const XML_Char *pubid,
1733 int has_internal_subset);
1734</pre>
1735<p>Set a handler that is called at the start of a DOCTYPE declaration,
1736before any external or internal subset is parsed. Both <code>sysid</code>
1737and <code>pubid</code> may be NULL. The <code>has_internal_subset</code>
1738will be non-zero if the DOCTYPE declaration has an internal subset.</p>
1739</div>
1740
1741<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001742<h4 id="XML_SetEndDoctypeDeclHandler">XML_SetEndDoctypeDeclHandler</h4>
1743<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001744void XMLCALL
1745XML_SetEndDoctypeDeclHandler(XML_Parser p,
1746 XML_EndDoctypeDeclHandler end);
1747</pre>
1748<pre class="signature">
1749typedef void
1750(XMLCALL *XML_EndDoctypeDeclHandler)(void *userData);
1751</pre>
1752<p>Set a handler that is called at the end of a DOCTYPE declaration,
1753after parsing any external subset.</p>
1754</div>
1755
1756<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001757<h4 id="XML_SetDoctypeDeclHandler">XML_SetDoctypeDeclHandler</h4>
1758<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001759void XMLCALL
1760XML_SetDoctypeDeclHandler(XML_Parser p,
1761 XML_StartDoctypeDeclHandler start,
1762 XML_EndDoctypeDeclHandler end);
1763</pre>
1764<p>Set both doctype handlers with one call.</p>
1765</div>
1766
1767<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001768<h4 id="XML_SetElementDeclHandler">XML_SetElementDeclHandler</h4>
1769<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001770void XMLCALL
1771XML_SetElementDeclHandler(XML_Parser p,
1772 XML_ElementDeclHandler eldecl);
1773</pre>
1774<pre class="signature">
1775typedef void
1776(XMLCALL *XML_ElementDeclHandler)(void *userData,
1777 const XML_Char *name,
1778 XML_Content *model);
1779</pre>
1780<pre class="signature">
1781enum XML_Content_Type {
1782 XML_CTYPE_EMPTY = 1,
1783 XML_CTYPE_ANY,
1784 XML_CTYPE_MIXED,
1785 XML_CTYPE_NAME,
1786 XML_CTYPE_CHOICE,
1787 XML_CTYPE_SEQ
1788};
1789
1790enum XML_Content_Quant {
1791 XML_CQUANT_NONE,
1792 XML_CQUANT_OPT,
1793 XML_CQUANT_REP,
1794 XML_CQUANT_PLUS
1795};
1796
1797typedef struct XML_cp XML_Content;
1798
1799struct XML_cp {
1800 enum XML_Content_Type type;
1801 enum XML_Content_Quant quant;
1802 const XML_Char * name;
1803 unsigned int numchildren;
1804 XML_Content * children;
1805};
1806</pre>
1807<p>Sets a handler for element declarations in a DTD. The handler gets
1808called with the name of the element in the declaration and a pointer
1809to a structure that contains the element model. It is the
1810application's responsibility to free this data structure using
1811<code><a href="#XML_FreeContentModel"
1812>XML_FreeContentModel</a></code>.</p>
1813
1814<p>The <code>model</code> argument is the root of a tree of
1815<code>XML_Content</code> nodes. If <code>type</code> equals
1816<code>XML_CTYPE_EMPTY</code> or <code>XML_CTYPE_ANY</code>, then
1817<code>quant</code> will be <code>XML_CQUANT_NONE</code>, and the other
1818fields will be zero or NULL. If <code>type</code> is
1819<code>XML_CTYPE_MIXED</code>, then <code>quant</code> will be
1820<code>XML_CQUANT_NONE</code> or <code>XML_CQUANT_REP</code> and
1821<code>numchildren</code> will contain the number of elements that are
1822allowed to be mixed in and <code>children</code> points to an array of
1823<code>XML_Content</code> structures that will all have type
1824XML_CTYPE_NAME with no quantification. Only the root node can be type
1825<code>XML_CTYPE_EMPTY</code>, <code>XML_CTYPE_ANY</code>, or
1826<code>XML_CTYPE_MIXED</code>.</p>
1827
1828<p>For type <code>XML_CTYPE_NAME</code>, the <code>name</code> field
1829points to the name and the <code>numchildren</code> and
1830<code>children</code> fields will be zero and NULL. The
1831<code>quant</code> field will indicate any quantifiers placed on the
1832name.</p>
1833
1834<p>Types <code>XML_CTYPE_CHOICE</code> and <code>XML_CTYPE_SEQ</code>
1835indicate a choice or sequence respectively. The
1836<code>numchildren</code> field indicates how many nodes in the choice
1837or sequence and <code>children</code> points to the nodes.</p>
1838</div>
1839
1840<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001841<h4 id="XML_SetAttlistDeclHandler">XML_SetAttlistDeclHandler</h4>
1842<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001843void XMLCALL
1844XML_SetAttlistDeclHandler(XML_Parser p,
1845 XML_AttlistDeclHandler attdecl);
1846</pre>
1847<pre class="signature">
1848typedef void
1849(XMLCALL *XML_AttlistDeclHandler)(void *userData,
1850 const XML_Char *elname,
1851 const XML_Char *attname,
1852 const XML_Char *att_type,
1853 const XML_Char *dflt,
1854 int isrequired);
1855</pre>
1856<p>Set a handler for attlist declarations in the DTD. This handler is
1857called for <em>each</em> attribute. So a single attlist declaration
1858with multiple attributes declared will generate multiple calls to this
1859handler. The <code>elname</code> parameter returns the name of the
1860element for which the attribute is being declared. The attribute name
1861is in the <code>attname</code> parameter. The attribute type is in the
1862<code>att_type</code> parameter. It is the string representing the
1863type in the declaration with whitespace removed.</p>
1864
1865<p>The <code>dflt</code> parameter holds the default value. It will be
1866NULL in the case of "#IMPLIED" or "#REQUIRED" attributes. You can
1867distinguish these two cases by checking the <code>isrequired</code>
1868parameter, which will be true in the case of "#REQUIRED" attributes.
1869Attributes which are "#FIXED" will have also have a true
1870<code>isrequired</code>, but they will have the non-NULL fixed value
1871in the <code>dflt</code> parameter.</p>
1872</div>
1873
1874<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001875<h4 id="XML_SetEntityDeclHandler">XML_SetEntityDeclHandler</h4>
1876<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001877void XMLCALL
1878XML_SetEntityDeclHandler(XML_Parser p,
1879 XML_EntityDeclHandler handler);
1880</pre>
1881<pre class="signature">
1882typedef void
1883(XMLCALL *XML_EntityDeclHandler)(void *userData,
1884 const XML_Char *entityName,
1885 int is_parameter_entity,
1886 const XML_Char *value,
1887 int value_length,
1888 const XML_Char *base,
1889 const XML_Char *systemId,
1890 const XML_Char *publicId,
1891 const XML_Char *notationName);
1892</pre>
1893<p>Sets a handler that will be called for all entity declarations.
1894The <code>is_parameter_entity</code> argument will be non-zero in the
1895case of parameter entities and zero otherwise.</p>
1896
1897<p>For internal entities (<code>&lt;!ENTITY foo "bar"&gt;</code>),
1898<code>value</code> will be non-NULL and <code>systemId</code>,
1899<code>publicId</code>, and <code>notationName</code> will all be NULL.
1900The value string is <em>not</em> NULL terminated; the length is
1901provided in the <code>value_length</code> parameter. Do not use
1902<code>value_length</code> to test for internal entities, since it is
1903legal to have zero-length values. Instead check for whether or not
1904<code>value</code> is NULL.</p> <p>The <code>notationName</code>
1905argument will have a non-NULL value only for unparsed entity
1906declarations.</p>
1907</div>
1908
1909<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001910<h4 id="XML_SetUnparsedEntityDeclHandler">XML_SetUnparsedEntityDeclHandler</h4>
1911<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001912void XMLCALL
1913XML_SetUnparsedEntityDeclHandler(XML_Parser p,
1914 XML_UnparsedEntityDeclHandler h)
1915</pre>
1916<pre class="signature">
1917typedef void
1918(XMLCALL *XML_UnparsedEntityDeclHandler)(void *userData,
1919 const XML_Char *entityName,
1920 const XML_Char *base,
1921 const XML_Char *systemId,
1922 const XML_Char *publicId,
1923 const XML_Char *notationName);
1924</pre>
1925<p>Set a handler that receives declarations of unparsed entities. These
1926are entity declarations that have a notation (NDATA) field:</p>
1927
1928<div id="eg"><pre>
1929&lt;!ENTITY logo SYSTEM "images/logo.gif" NDATA gif&gt;
1930</pre></div>
1931<p>This handler is obsolete and is provided for backwards
1932compatibility. Use instead <a href= "#XML_SetEntityDeclHandler"
1933>XML_SetEntityDeclHandler</a>.</p>
1934</div>
1935
1936<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001937<h4 id="XML_SetNotationDeclHandler">XML_SetNotationDeclHandler</h4>
1938<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001939void XMLCALL
1940XML_SetNotationDeclHandler(XML_Parser p,
1941 XML_NotationDeclHandler h)
1942</pre>
1943<pre class="signature">
1944typedef void
1945(XMLCALL *XML_NotationDeclHandler)(void *userData,
1946 const XML_Char *notationName,
1947 const XML_Char *base,
1948 const XML_Char *systemId,
1949 const XML_Char *publicId);
1950</pre>
1951<p>Set a handler that receives notation declarations.</p>
1952</div>
1953
1954<div class="handler">
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001955<h4 id="XML_SetNotStandaloneHandler">XML_SetNotStandaloneHandler</h4>
1956<pre class="setter">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001957void XMLCALL
1958XML_SetNotStandaloneHandler(XML_Parser p,
1959 XML_NotStandaloneHandler h)
1960</pre>
1961<pre class="signature">
1962typedef int
1963(XMLCALL *XML_NotStandaloneHandler)(void *userData);
1964</pre>
1965<p>Set a handler that is called if the document is not "standalone".
1966This happens when there is an external subset or a reference to a
1967parameter entity, but does not have standalone set to "yes" in an XML
1968declaration. If this handler returns <code>XML_STATUS_ERROR</code>,
1969then the parser will throw an <code>XML_ERROR_NOT_STANDALONE</code>
1970error.</p>
1971</div>
1972
1973<h3><a name="position">Parse position and error reporting functions</a></h3>
1974
1975<p>These are the functions you'll want to call when the parse
1976functions return <code>XML_STATUS_ERROR</code> (a parse error has
1977occurred), although the position reporting functions are useful outside
1978of errors. The position reported is the byte position (in the original
1979document or entity encoding) of the first of the sequence of
1980characters that generated the current event (or the error that caused
1981the parse functions to return <code>XML_STATUS_ERROR</code>.) The
Haibo Huangd1a324a2020-10-28 22:19:36 -07001982exceptions are callbacks triggered by declarations in the document
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001983prologue, in which case they exact position reported is somewhere in the
1984relevant markup, but not necessarily as meaningful as for other
1985events.</p>
1986
1987<p>The position reporting functions are accurate only outside of the
1988DTD. In other words, they usually return bogus information when
1989called from within a DTD declaration handler.</p>
1990
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07001991<h4 id="XML_GetErrorCode">XML_GetErrorCode</h4>
1992<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08001993enum XML_Error XMLCALL
1994XML_GetErrorCode(XML_Parser p);
1995</pre>
1996<div class="fcndef">
1997Return what type of error has occurred.
1998</div>
1999
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002000<h4 id="XML_ErrorString">XML_ErrorString</h4>
2001<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002002const XML_LChar * XMLCALL
2003XML_ErrorString(enum XML_Error code);
2004</pre>
2005<div class="fcndef">
2006Return a string describing the error corresponding to code.
2007The code should be one of the enums that can be returned from
2008<code><a href= "#XML_GetErrorCode" >XML_GetErrorCode</a></code>.
2009</div>
2010
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002011<h4 id="XML_GetCurrentByteIndex">XML_GetCurrentByteIndex</h4>
2012<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002013XML_Index XMLCALL
2014XML_GetCurrentByteIndex(XML_Parser p);
2015</pre>
2016<div class="fcndef">
2017Return the byte offset of the position. This always corresponds to
2018the values returned by <code><a href= "#XML_GetCurrentLineNumber"
2019>XML_GetCurrentLineNumber</a></code> and <code><a href=
2020"#XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber" >XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber</a></code>.
2021</div>
2022
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002023<h4 id="XML_GetCurrentLineNumber">XML_GetCurrentLineNumber</h4>
2024<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002025XML_Size XMLCALL
2026XML_GetCurrentLineNumber(XML_Parser p);
2027</pre>
2028<div class="fcndef">
2029Return the line number of the position. The first line is reported as
2030<code>1</code>.
2031</div>
2032
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002033<h4 id="XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber">XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber</h4>
2034<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002035XML_Size XMLCALL
2036XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber(XML_Parser p);
2037</pre>
2038<div class="fcndef">
2039Return the offset, from the beginning of the current line, of
2040the position.
2041</div>
2042
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002043<h4 id="XML_GetCurrentByteCount">XML_GetCurrentByteCount</h4>
2044<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002045int XMLCALL
2046XML_GetCurrentByteCount(XML_Parser p);
2047</pre>
2048<div class="fcndef">
2049Return the number of bytes in the current event. Returns
2050<code>0</code> if the event is inside a reference to an internal
2051entity and for the end-tag event for empty element tags (the later can
2052be used to distinguish empty-element tags from empty elements using
2053separate start and end tags).
2054</div>
2055
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002056<h4 id="XML_GetInputContext">XML_GetInputContext</h4>
2057<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002058const char * XMLCALL
2059XML_GetInputContext(XML_Parser p,
2060 int *offset,
2061 int *size);
2062</pre>
2063<div class="fcndef">
2064
2065<p>Returns the parser's input buffer, sets the integer pointed at by
2066<code>offset</code> to the offset within this buffer of the current
2067parse position, and set the integer pointed at by <code>size</code> to
2068the size of the returned buffer.</p>
2069
2070<p>This should only be called from within a handler during an active
2071parse and the returned buffer should only be referred to from within
2072the handler that made the call. This input buffer contains the
2073untranslated bytes of the input.</p>
2074
2075<p>Only a limited amount of context is kept, so if the event
2076triggering a call spans over a very large amount of input, the actual
2077parse position may be before the beginning of the buffer.</p>
2078
2079<p>If <code>XML_CONTEXT_BYTES</code> is not defined, this will always
2080return NULL.</p>
2081</div>
2082
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002083<h3><a name="billion-laughs">Billion Laughs Attack Protection</a></h3>
2084
2085<p>The functions in this section configure the built-in
2086 protection against various forms of
2087 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack">billion laughs attacks</a>.</p>
2088
2089<h4 id="XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionMaximumAmplification">XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionMaximumAmplification</h4>
2090<pre class="fcndec">
2091/* Added in Expat 2.4.0. */
2092XML_Bool XMLCALL
2093XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionMaximumAmplification(XML_Parser p,
2094 float maximumAmplificationFactor);
2095</pre>
2096<div class="fcndef">
2097 <p>
2098 Sets the maximum tolerated amplification factor
2099 for protection against
2100 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack">billion laughs attacks</a>
2101 (default: <code>100.0</code>)
2102 of parser <code>p</code> to <code>maximumAmplificationFactor</code>, and
2103 returns <code>XML_TRUE</code> upon success and <code>XML_TRUE</code> upon error.
2104 </p>
2105
2106 The amplification factor is calculated as ..
2107 <pre>
2108 amplification := (direct + indirect) / direct
2109 </pre>
2110 .. while parsing, whereas
2111 <code>direct</code> is the number of bytes read from the primary document in parsing and
2112 <code>indirect</code> is the number of bytes added by expanding entities and reading of external DTD files, combined.
2113
2114 <p>For a call to <code>XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionMaximumAmplification</code> to succeed:</p>
2115 <ul>
2116 <li>parser <code>p</code> must be a non-<code>NULL</code> root parser (without any parent parsers) and</li>
2117 <li><code>maximumAmplificationFactor</code> must be non-<code>NaN</code> and greater than or equal to <code>1.0</code>.</li>
2118 </ul>
2119
2120 <p>
2121 <strong>Note:</strong>
2122 If you ever need to increase this value for non-attack payload,
2123 please <a href="https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues">file a bug report</a>.
2124 </p>
2125
2126 <p>
2127 <strong>Note:</strong>
2128 Peak amplifications
2129 of factor 15,000 for the entire payload and
2130 of factor 30,000 in the middle of parsing
2131 have been observed with small benign files in practice.
2132
2133 So if you do reduce the maximum allowed amplification,
2134 please make sure that the activation threshold is still big enough
2135 to not end up with undesired false positives (i.e. benign files being rejected).
2136 </p>
2137</div>
2138
2139<h4 id="XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionActivationThreshold">XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionActivationThreshold</h4>
2140<pre class="fcndec">
2141/* Added in Expat 2.4.0. */
2142XML_Bool XMLCALL
2143XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionActivationThreshold(XML_Parser p,
2144 unsigned long long activationThresholdBytes);
2145</pre>
2146<div class="fcndef">
2147 <p>
2148 Sets number of output bytes (including amplification from entity expansion and reading DTD files)
2149 needed to activate protection against
2150 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack">billion laughs attacks</a>
2151 (default: <code>8 MiB</code>)
2152 of parser <code>p</code> to <code>activationThresholdBytes</code>, and
2153 returns <code>XML_TRUE</code> upon success and <code>XML_TRUE</code> upon error.
2154 </p>
2155
2156 <p>For a call to <code>XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionActivationThreshold</code> to succeed:</p>
2157 <ul>
2158 <li>parser <code>p</code> must be a non-<code>NULL</code> root parser (without any parent parsers).</li>
2159 </ul>
2160
2161 <p>
2162 <strong>Note:</strong>
2163 If you ever need to increase this value for non-attack payload,
2164 please <a href="https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues">file a bug report</a>.
2165 </p>
2166
2167 <p>
2168 <strong>Note:</strong>
2169 Activation thresholds below 4 MiB are known to break support for
2170 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture">DITA</a> 1.3 payload
2171 and are hence not recommended.
2172 </p>
2173</div>
2174
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002175<h3><a name="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous functions</a></h3>
2176
2177<p>The functions in this section either obtain state information from
Elliott Hughes72472942018-01-10 08:36:10 -08002178the parser or can be used to dynamically set parser options.</p>
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002179
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002180<h4 id="XML_SetUserData">XML_SetUserData</h4>
2181<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002182void XMLCALL
2183XML_SetUserData(XML_Parser p,
2184 void *userData);
2185</pre>
2186<div class="fcndef">
2187This sets the user data pointer that gets passed to handlers. It
2188overwrites any previous value for this pointer. Note that the
2189application is responsible for freeing the memory associated with
2190<code>userData</code> when it is finished with the parser. So if you
2191call this when there's already a pointer there, and you haven't freed
2192the memory associated with it, then you've probably just leaked
2193memory.
2194</div>
2195
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002196<h4 id="XML_GetUserData">XML_GetUserData</h4>
2197<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002198void * XMLCALL
2199XML_GetUserData(XML_Parser p);
2200</pre>
2201<div class="fcndef">
2202This returns the user data pointer that gets passed to handlers.
2203It is actually implemented as a macro.
2204</div>
2205
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002206<h4 id="XML_UseParserAsHandlerArg">XML_UseParserAsHandlerArg</h4>
2207<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002208void XMLCALL
2209XML_UseParserAsHandlerArg(XML_Parser p);
2210</pre>
2211<div class="fcndef">
2212After this is called, handlers receive the parser in their
2213<code>userData</code> arguments. The user data can still be obtained
2214using the <code><a href= "#XML_GetUserData"
2215>XML_GetUserData</a></code> function.
2216</div>
2217
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002218<h4 id="XML_SetBase">XML_SetBase</h4>
2219<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002220enum XML_Status XMLCALL
2221XML_SetBase(XML_Parser p,
2222 const XML_Char *base);
2223</pre>
2224<div class="fcndef">
2225Set the base to be used for resolving relative URIs in system
2226identifiers. The return value is <code>XML_STATUS_ERROR</code> if
2227there's no memory to store base, otherwise it's
2228<code>XML_STATUS_OK</code>.
2229</div>
2230
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002231<h4 id="XML_GetBase">XML_GetBase</h4>
2232<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002233const XML_Char * XMLCALL
2234XML_GetBase(XML_Parser p);
2235</pre>
2236<div class="fcndef">
2237Return the base for resolving relative URIs.
2238</div>
2239
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002240<h4 id="XML_GetSpecifiedAttributeCount">XML_GetSpecifiedAttributeCount</h4>
2241<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002242int XMLCALL
2243XML_GetSpecifiedAttributeCount(XML_Parser p);
2244</pre>
2245<div class="fcndef">
2246When attributes are reported to the start handler in the atts vector,
2247attributes that were explicitly set in the element occur before any
2248attributes that receive their value from default information in an
2249ATTLIST declaration. This function returns the number of attributes
2250that were explicitly set times two, thus giving the offset in the
2251<code>atts</code> array passed to the start tag handler of the first
2252attribute set due to defaults. It supplies information for the last
2253call to a start handler. If called inside a start handler, then that
2254means the current call.
2255</div>
2256
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002257<h4 id="XML_GetIdAttributeIndex">XML_GetIdAttributeIndex</h4>
2258<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002259int XMLCALL
2260XML_GetIdAttributeIndex(XML_Parser p);
2261</pre>
2262<div class="fcndef">
2263Returns the index of the ID attribute passed in the atts array in the
2264last call to <code><a href= "#XML_StartElementHandler"
2265>XML_StartElementHandler</a></code>, or -1 if there is no ID
2266attribute. If called inside a start handler, then that means the
2267current call.
2268</div>
2269
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002270<h4 id="XML_GetAttributeInfo">XML_GetAttributeInfo</h4>
2271<pre class="fcndec">
Elliott Hughes35e432d2012-09-09 14:23:38 -07002272const XML_AttrInfo * XMLCALL
2273XML_GetAttributeInfo(XML_Parser parser);
2274</pre>
2275<pre class="signature">
2276typedef struct {
2277 XML_Index nameStart; /* Offset to beginning of the attribute name. */
2278 XML_Index nameEnd; /* Offset after the attribute name's last byte. */
2279 XML_Index valueStart; /* Offset to beginning of the attribute value. */
2280 XML_Index valueEnd; /* Offset after the attribute value's last byte. */
2281} XML_AttrInfo;
2282</pre>
2283<div class="fcndef">
2284Returns an array of <code>XML_AttrInfo</code> structures for the
2285attribute/value pairs passed in the last call to the
2286<code>XML_StartElementHandler</code> that were specified
2287in the start-tag rather than defaulted. Each attribute/value pair counts
2288as 1; thus the number of entries in the array is
2289<code>XML_GetSpecifiedAttributeCount(parser) / 2</code>.
2290</div>
2291
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002292<h4 id="XML_SetEncoding">XML_SetEncoding</h4>
2293<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002294enum XML_Status XMLCALL
2295XML_SetEncoding(XML_Parser p,
2296 const XML_Char *encoding);
2297</pre>
2298<div class="fcndef">
2299Set the encoding to be used by the parser. It is equivalent to
2300passing a non-null encoding argument to the parser creation functions.
2301It must not be called after <code><a href= "#XML_Parse"
2302>XML_Parse</a></code> or <code><a href= "#XML_ParseBuffer"
2303>XML_ParseBuffer</a></code> have been called on the given parser.
2304Returns <code>XML_STATUS_OK</code> on success or
2305<code>XML_STATUS_ERROR</code> on error.
2306</div>
2307
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002308<h4 id="XML_SetParamEntityParsing">XML_SetParamEntityParsing</h4>
2309<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002310int XMLCALL
2311XML_SetParamEntityParsing(XML_Parser p,
2312 enum XML_ParamEntityParsing code);
2313</pre>
2314<div class="fcndef">
2315This enables parsing of parameter entities, including the external
2316parameter entity that is the external DTD subset, according to
2317<code>code</code>.
2318The choices for <code>code</code> are:
2319<ul>
2320<li><code>XML_PARAM_ENTITY_PARSING_NEVER</code></li>
2321<li><code>XML_PARAM_ENTITY_PARSING_UNLESS_STANDALONE</code></li>
2322<li><code>XML_PARAM_ENTITY_PARSING_ALWAYS</code></li>
2323</ul>
Elliott Hughes35e432d2012-09-09 14:23:38 -07002324<b>Note:</b> If <code>XML_SetParamEntityParsing</code> is called after
2325<code>XML_Parse</code> or <code>XML_ParseBuffer</code>, then it has
2326no effect and will always return 0.
2327</div>
2328
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002329<h4 id="XML_SetHashSalt">XML_SetHashSalt</h4>
2330<pre class="fcndec">
Elliott Hughes35e432d2012-09-09 14:23:38 -07002331int XMLCALL
2332XML_SetHashSalt(XML_Parser p,
2333 unsigned long hash_salt);
2334</pre>
2335<div class="fcndef">
2336Sets the hash salt to use for internal hash calculations.
2337Helps in preventing DoS attacks based on predicting hash
2338function behavior. In order to have an effect this must be called
2339before parsing has started. Returns 1 if successful, 0 when called
2340after <code>XML_Parse</code> or <code>XML_ParseBuffer</code>.
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002341<p><b>Note:</b> This call is optional, as the parser will auto-generate
Haibo Huang40a71912019-10-11 11:13:39 -07002342a new random salt value if no value has been set at the start of parsing.</p>
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002343<p><b>Note:</b> One should not call <code>XML_SetHashSalt</code> with a
Paul Duffincee23492016-05-04 10:42:31 +01002344hash salt value of 0, as this value is used as sentinel value to indicate
2345that <code>XML_SetHashSalt</code> has <b>not</b> been called. Consequently
2346such a call will have no effect, even if it returns 1.</p>
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002347</div>
2348
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002349<h4 id="XML_UseForeignDTD">XML_UseForeignDTD</h4>
2350<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002351enum XML_Error XMLCALL
2352XML_UseForeignDTD(XML_Parser parser, XML_Bool useDTD);
2353</pre>
2354<div class="fcndef">
2355<p>This function allows an application to provide an external subset
2356for the document type declaration for documents which do not specify
2357an external subset of their own. For documents which specify an
2358external subset in their DOCTYPE declaration, the application-provided
2359subset will be ignored. If the document does not contain a DOCTYPE
2360declaration at all and <code>useDTD</code> is true, the
2361application-provided subset will be parsed, but the
2362<code>startDoctypeDeclHandler</code> and
2363<code>endDoctypeDeclHandler</code> functions, if set, will not be
2364called. The setting of parameter entity parsing, controlled using
2365<code><a href= "#XML_SetParamEntityParsing"
2366>XML_SetParamEntityParsing</a></code>, will be honored.</p>
2367
2368<p>The application-provided external subset is read by calling the
2369external entity reference handler set via <code><a href=
2370"#XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler"
2371>XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler</a></code> with both
2372<code>publicId</code> and <code>systemId</code> set to NULL.</p>
2373
2374<p>If this function is called after parsing has begun, it returns
2375<code>XML_ERROR_CANT_CHANGE_FEATURE_ONCE_PARSING</code> and ignores
2376<code>useDTD</code>. If called when Expat has been compiled without
2377DTD support, it returns
2378<code>XML_ERROR_FEATURE_REQUIRES_XML_DTD</code>. Otherwise, it
2379returns <code>XML_ERROR_NONE</code>.</p>
2380
2381<p><b>Note:</b> For the purpose of checking WFC: Entity Declared, passing
2382<code>useDTD == XML_TRUE</code> will make the parser behave as if
2383the document had a DTD with an external subset. This holds true even if
2384the external entity reference handler returns without action.</p>
2385</div>
2386
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002387<h4 id="XML_SetReturnNSTriplet">XML_SetReturnNSTriplet</h4>
2388<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002389void XMLCALL
2390XML_SetReturnNSTriplet(XML_Parser parser,
2391 int do_nst);
2392</pre>
2393<div class="fcndef">
2394<p>
2395This function only has an effect when using a parser created with
2396<code><a href= "#XML_ParserCreateNS" >XML_ParserCreateNS</a></code>,
2397i.e. when namespace processing is in effect. The <code>do_nst</code>
2398sets whether or not prefixes are returned with names qualified with a
2399namespace prefix. If this function is called with <code>do_nst</code>
2400non-zero, then afterwards namespace qualified names (that is qualified
2401with a prefix as opposed to belonging to a default namespace) are
2402returned as a triplet with the three parts separated by the namespace
2403separator specified when the parser was created. The order of
2404returned parts is URI, local name, and prefix.</p> <p>If
2405<code>do_nst</code> is zero, then namespaces are reported in the
2406default manner, URI then local_name separated by the namespace
2407separator.</p>
2408</div>
2409
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002410<h4 id="XML_DefaultCurrent">XML_DefaultCurrent</h4>
2411<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002412void XMLCALL
2413XML_DefaultCurrent(XML_Parser parser);
2414</pre>
2415<div class="fcndef">
2416This can be called within a handler for a start element, end element,
2417processing instruction or character data. It causes the corresponding
2418markup to be passed to the default handler set by <code><a
2419href="#XML_SetDefaultHandler" >XML_SetDefaultHandler</a></code> or
2420<code><a href="#XML_SetDefaultHandlerExpand"
2421>XML_SetDefaultHandlerExpand</a></code>. It does nothing if there is
2422not a default handler.
2423</div>
2424
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002425<h4 id="XML_ExpatVersion">XML_ExpatVersion</h4>
2426<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002427XML_LChar * XMLCALL
2428XML_ExpatVersion();
2429</pre>
2430<div class="fcndef">
2431Return the library version as a string (e.g. <code>"expat_1.95.1"</code>).
2432</div>
2433
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002434<h4 id="XML_ExpatVersionInfo">XML_ExpatVersionInfo</h4>
2435<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002436struct XML_Expat_Version XMLCALL
2437XML_ExpatVersionInfo();
2438</pre>
2439<pre class="signature">
2440typedef struct {
2441 int major;
2442 int minor;
2443 int micro;
2444} XML_Expat_Version;
2445</pre>
2446<div class="fcndef">
2447Return the library version information as a structure.
2448Some macros are also defined that support compile-time tests of the
2449library version:
2450<ul>
2451<li><code>XML_MAJOR_VERSION</code></li>
2452<li><code>XML_MINOR_VERSION</code></li>
2453<li><code>XML_MICRO_VERSION</code></li>
2454</ul>
2455Testing these constants is currently the best way to determine if
2456particular parts of the Expat API are available.
2457</div>
2458
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002459<h4 id="XML_GetFeatureList">XML_GetFeatureList</h4>
2460<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002461const XML_Feature * XMLCALL
2462XML_GetFeatureList();
2463</pre>
2464<pre class="signature">
2465enum XML_FeatureEnum {
2466 XML_FEATURE_END = 0,
2467 XML_FEATURE_UNICODE,
2468 XML_FEATURE_UNICODE_WCHAR_T,
2469 XML_FEATURE_DTD,
2470 XML_FEATURE_CONTEXT_BYTES,
2471 XML_FEATURE_MIN_SIZE,
2472 XML_FEATURE_SIZEOF_XML_CHAR,
Elliott Hughesd07d5a72009-09-25 16:04:37 -07002473 XML_FEATURE_SIZEOF_XML_LCHAR,
2474 XML_FEATURE_NS,
2475 XML_FEATURE_LARGE_SIZE
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002476};
2477
2478typedef struct {
2479 enum XML_FeatureEnum feature;
2480 XML_LChar *name;
2481 long int value;
2482} XML_Feature;
2483</pre>
2484<div class="fcndef">
2485<p>Returns a list of "feature" records, providing details on how
2486Expat was configured at compile time. Most applications should not
2487need to worry about this, but this information is otherwise not
2488available from Expat. This function allows code that does need to
2489check these features to do so at runtime.</p>
2490
2491<p>The return value is an array of <code>XML_Feature</code>,
2492terminated by a record with a <code>feature</code> of
2493<code>XML_FEATURE_END</code> and <code>name</code> of NULL,
2494identifying the feature-test macros Expat was compiled with. Since an
2495application that requires this kind of information needs to determine
2496the type of character the <code>name</code> points to, records for the
2497<code>XML_FEATURE_SIZEOF_XML_CHAR</code> and
2498<code>XML_FEATURE_SIZEOF_XML_LCHAR</code> will be located at the
2499beginning of the list, followed by <code>XML_FEATURE_UNICODE</code>
2500and <code>XML_FEATURE_UNICODE_WCHAR_T</code>, if they are present at
2501all.</p>
2502
2503<p>Some features have an associated value. If there isn't an
2504associated value, the <code>value</code> field is set to 0. At this
2505time, the following features have been defined to have values:</p>
2506
2507<dl>
2508 <dt><code>XML_FEATURE_SIZEOF_XML_CHAR</code></dt>
2509 <dd>The number of bytes occupied by one <code>XML_Char</code>
2510 character.</dd>
2511 <dt><code>XML_FEATURE_SIZEOF_XML_LCHAR</code></dt>
2512 <dd>The number of bytes occupied by one <code>XML_LChar</code>
2513 character.</dd>
2514 <dt><code>XML_FEATURE_CONTEXT_BYTES</code></dt>
2515 <dd>The maximum number of characters of context which can be
2516 reported by <code><a href= "#XML_GetInputContext"
2517 >XML_GetInputContext</a></code>.</dd>
2518</dl>
2519</div>
2520
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002521<h4 id="XML_FreeContentModel">XML_FreeContentModel</h4>
2522<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002523void XMLCALL
2524XML_FreeContentModel(XML_Parser parser, XML_Content *model);
2525</pre>
2526<div class="fcndef">
2527Function to deallocate the <code>model</code> argument passed to the
2528<code>XML_ElementDeclHandler</code> callback set using <code><a
2529href="#XML_SetElementDeclHandler" >XML_ElementDeclHandler</a></code>.
2530This function should not be used for any other purpose.
2531</div>
2532
2533<p>The following functions allow external code to share the memory
2534allocator an <code>XML_Parser</code> has been configured to use. This
2535is especially useful for third-party libraries that interact with a
2536parser object created by application code, or heavily layered
2537applications. This can be essential when using dynamically loaded
2538libraries which use different C standard libraries (this can happen on
2539Windows, at least).</p>
2540
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002541<h4 id="XML_MemMalloc">XML_MemMalloc</h4>
2542<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002543void * XMLCALL
2544XML_MemMalloc(XML_Parser parser, size_t size);
2545</pre>
2546<div class="fcndef">
2547Allocate <code>size</code> bytes of memory using the allocator the
2548<code>parser</code> object has been configured to use. Returns a
2549pointer to the memory or NULL on failure. Memory allocated in this
2550way must be freed using <code><a href="#XML_MemFree"
2551>XML_MemFree</a></code>.
2552</div>
2553
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002554<h4 id="XML_MemRealloc">XML_MemRealloc</h4>
2555<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002556void * XMLCALL
2557XML_MemRealloc(XML_Parser parser, void *ptr, size_t size);
2558</pre>
2559<div class="fcndef">
2560Allocate <code>size</code> bytes of memory using the allocator the
2561<code>parser</code> object has been configured to use.
2562<code>ptr</code> must point to a block of memory allocated by <code><a
2563href="#XML_MemMalloc" >XML_MemMalloc</a></code> or
2564<code>XML_MemRealloc</code>, or be NULL. This function tries to
2565expand the block pointed to by <code>ptr</code> if possible. Returns
2566a pointer to the memory or NULL on failure. On success, the original
2567block has either been expanded or freed. On failure, the original
2568block has not been freed; the caller is responsible for freeing the
2569original block. Memory allocated in this way must be freed using
2570<code><a href="#XML_MemFree"
2571>XML_MemFree</a></code>.
2572</div>
2573
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002574<h4 id="XML_MemFree">XML_MemFree</h4>
2575<pre class="fcndec">
The Android Open Source Projectb80e2872009-03-03 19:29:30 -08002576void XMLCALL
2577XML_MemFree(XML_Parser parser, void *ptr);
2578</pre>
2579<div class="fcndef">
2580Free a block of memory pointed to by <code>ptr</code>. The block must
2581have been allocated by <code><a href="#XML_MemMalloc"
2582>XML_MemMalloc</a></code> or <code>XML_MemRealloc</code>, or be NULL.
2583</div>
2584
2585<hr />
Elliott Hughes33bf9752021-08-10 17:33:34 -07002586
2587 <div class="footer">
2588 Found a bug in the documentation?
2589 <a href="https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues">Please file a bug report.</a>
2590 </div>
2591
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