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| 82 | <li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li> |
| 83 | <li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li> |
| 84 | <li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 2d347fa | 2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | <li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | <li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li> |
| 87 | <li><a href="http://www.fh-frankfurt.de/~igor/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li> |
| 88 | <li><a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | cb7543b | 2002-09-09 10:54:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | <li><a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | e6d8e20 | 2002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 2d347fa | 2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | <li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml&product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li> |
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Daniel Veillard | 42766c0 | 2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | <p>There are a number of language bindings and wrappers available for |
| 97 | libxml2, the list below is not exhaustive. Please contact the <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-bindings">xml-bindings@gnome.org</a> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | (<a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml-bindings/">archives</a>) in |
| 99 | order to get updates to this list or to discuss the specific topic of libxml2 |
| 100 | or libxslt wrappers or bindings:</p> |
| 101 | <ul> |
| 102 | <li> |
Daniel Veillard | c14401e | 2002-11-20 14:28:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | <a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">Libxml++</a> seems the |
| 104 | most up-to-date C++ bindings for libxml2, check the <a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/reference/html/hierarchy.html">documentation</a> |
| 105 | and the <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/libxmlplusplus/libxml%2b%2b/examples/">examples</a>.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | <li>There is another <a href="http://libgdome-cpp.berlios.de/">C++ wrapper |
| 107 | based on the gdome2 bindings</a> maintained by Tobias Peters.</li> |
| 108 | <li>and a third C++ wrapper by Peter Jones <pjones@pmade.org> |
Daniel Veillard | 9b6fd30 | 2002-05-13 12:06:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | <p>Website: <a href="http://pmade.org/pjones/software/xmlwrapp/">http://pmade.org/pjones/software/xmlwrapp/</a> |
| 110 | </p> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | </li> |
| 112 | <li> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 113 | <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-March/msg00014.html">Matt |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | Sergeant</a> developed <a href="http://axkit.org/download/">XML::LibXSLT</a>, a Perl wrapper for |
Daniel Veillard | af43f63 | 2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | libxml2/libxslt as part of the <a href="http://axkit.com/">AxKit XML |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | application server</a>.</li> |
| 117 | <li> |
Daniel Veillard | 2147367 | 2002-06-17 07:29:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | <a href="mailto:dkuhlman@cutter.rexx.com">Dave Kuhlman</a> provides an |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | earlier version of the libxml/libxslt <a href="http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman">wrappers for Python</a>.</li> |
| 120 | <li>Gopal.V and Peter Minten develop <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libxmlsharp">libxml#</a>, a set of |
| 121 | C# libxml2 bindings.</li> |
| 122 | <li>Petr Kozelka provides <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas">Pascal units to glue |
| 123 | libxml2</a> with Kylix, Delphi and other Pascal compilers.</li> |
| 124 | <li>Uwe Fechner also provides <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/idom2-pas/">idom2</a>, a DOM2 |
| 125 | implementation for Kylix2/D5/D6 from Borland.</li> |
| 126 | <li>Wai-Sun "Squidster" Chia provides <a href="http://www.rubycolor.org/arc/redist/">bindings for Ruby</a> and |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | libxml2 bindings are also available in Ruby through the <a href="http://libgdome-ruby.berlios.de/">libgdome-ruby</a> module |
| 128 | maintained by Tobias Peters.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 129 | <li>Steve Ball and contributors maintains <a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">libxml2 and libxslt bindings for |
| 130 | Tcl</a>.</li> |
| 131 | <li>There is support for libxml2 in the DOM module of PHP.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | </ul> |
Daniel Veillard | c0801af | 2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 133 | <p>The distribution includes a set of Python bindings, which are guaranteed |
| 134 | to be maintained as part of the library in the future, though the Python |
Daniel Veillard | 0b79dfe | 2002-02-23 13:02:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 135 | interface have not yet reached the maturity of the C API.</p> |
Daniel Veillard | af43f63 | 2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | <p>To install the Python bindings there are 2 options:</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b79dfe | 2002-02-23 13:02:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 137 | <ul> |
Daniel Veillard | af43f63 | 2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | <li>If you use an RPM based distribution, simply install the <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxml2-python">libxml2-python |
| 139 | RPM</a> (and if needed the <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxslt-python">libxslt-python |
| 140 | RPM</a>).</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | <li>Otherwise use the <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/python/">libxml2-python |
Daniel Veillard | af43f63 | 2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 142 | module distribution</a> corresponding to your installed version of |
| 143 | libxml2 and libxslt. Note that to install it you will need both libxml2 |
| 144 | and libxslt installed and run "python setup.py build install" in the |
| 145 | module tree.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b79dfe | 2002-02-23 13:02:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | </ul> |
Daniel Veillard | af43f63 | 2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | <p>The distribution includes a set of examples and regression tests for the |
| 148 | python bindings in the <code>python/tests</code> directory. Here are some |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 149 | excerpts from those tests:</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | <h3>tst.py:</h3> |
| 151 | <p>This is a basic test of the file interface and DOM navigation:</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 152 | <pre>import libxml2 |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | |
| 154 | doc = libxml2.parseFile("tst.xml") |
| 155 | if doc.name != "tst.xml": |
| 156 | print "doc.name failed" |
| 157 | sys.exit(1) |
| 158 | root = doc.children |
| 159 | if root.name != "doc": |
| 160 | print "root.name failed" |
| 161 | sys.exit(1) |
| 162 | child = root.children |
| 163 | if child.name != "foo": |
| 164 | print "child.name failed" |
| 165 | sys.exit(1) |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | doc.freeDoc()</pre> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 167 | <p>The Python module is called libxml2; parseFile is the equivalent of |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | xmlParseFile (most of the bindings are automatically generated, and the xml |
| 169 | prefix is removed and the casing convention are kept). All node seen at the |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 170 | binding level share the same subset of accessors:</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 171 | <ul> |
| 172 | <li> |
Daniel Veillard | af43f63 | 2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 173 | <code>name</code> : returns the node name</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | <li> |
Daniel Veillard | c0801af | 2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | <code>type</code> : returns a string indicating the node type</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | <li> |
Daniel Veillard | af43f63 | 2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | <code>content</code> : returns the content of the node, it is based on |
| 178 | xmlNodeGetContent() and hence is recursive.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 179 | <li> |
Daniel Veillard | af43f63 | 2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 180 | <code>parent</code> , <code>children</code>, <code>last</code>, |
| 181 | <code>next</code>, <code>prev</code>, <code>doc</code>, |
| 182 | <code>properties</code>: pointing to the associated element in the tree, |
| 183 | those may return None in case no such link exists.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 184 | </ul> |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 185 | <p>Also note the need to explicitly deallocate documents with freeDoc() . |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 186 | Reference counting for libxml2 trees would need quite a lot of work to |
| 187 | function properly, and rather than risk memory leaks if not implemented |
| 188 | correctly it sounds safer to have an explicit function to free a tree. The |
| 189 | wrapper python objects like doc, root or child are them automatically garbage |
| 190 | collected.</p> |
| 191 | <h3>validate.py:</h3> |
| 192 | <p>This test check the validation interfaces and redirection of error |
| 193 | messages:</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | <pre>import libxml2 |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | #deactivate error messages from the validation |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | def noerr(ctx, str): |
| 198 | pass |
| 199 | |
| 200 | libxml2.registerErrorHandler(noerr, None) |
| 201 | |
| 202 | ctxt = libxml2.createFileParserCtxt("invalid.xml") |
| 203 | ctxt.validate(1) |
| 204 | ctxt.parseDocument() |
| 205 | doc = ctxt.doc() |
| 206 | valid = ctxt.isValid() |
| 207 | doc.freeDoc() |
| 208 | if valid != 0: |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | print "validity check failed"</pre> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 210 | <p>The first thing to notice is the call to registerErrorHandler(), it |
| 211 | defines a new error handler global to the library. It is used to avoid seeing |
| 212 | the error messages when trying to validate the invalid document.</p> |
| 213 | <p>The main interest of that test is the creation of a parser context with |
| 214 | createFileParserCtxt() and how the behaviour can be changed before calling |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 215 | parseDocument() . Similarly the informations resulting from the parsing phase |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 216 | are also available using context methods.</p> |
| 217 | <p>Contexts like nodes are defined as class and the libxml2 wrappers maps the |
| 218 | C function interfaces in terms of objects method as much as possible. The |
| 219 | best to get a complete view of what methods are supported is to look at the |
| 220 | libxml2.py module containing all the wrappers.</p> |
| 221 | <h3>push.py:</h3> |
| 222 | <p>This test show how to activate the push parser interface:</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 223 | <pre>import libxml2 |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 224 | |
| 225 | ctxt = libxml2.createPushParser(None, "<foo", 4, "test.xml") |
| 226 | ctxt.parseChunk("/>", 2, 1) |
| 227 | doc = ctxt.doc() |
| 228 | |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | doc.freeDoc()</pre> |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 230 | <p>The context is created with a special call based on the |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 231 | xmlCreatePushParser() from the C library. The first argument is an optional |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 232 | SAX callback object, then the initial set of data, the length and the name of |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 233 | the resource in case URI-References need to be computed by the parser.</p> |
| 234 | <p>Then the data are pushed using the parseChunk() method, the last call |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 235 | setting the third argument terminate to 1.</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 236 | <h3>pushSAX.py:</h3> |
| 237 | <p>this test show the use of the event based parsing interfaces. In this case |
| 238 | the parser does not build a document, but provides callback information as |
| 239 | the parser makes progresses analyzing the data being provided:</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 240 | <pre>import libxml2 |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 241 | log = "" |
| 242 | |
| 243 | class callback: |
| 244 | def startDocument(self): |
| 245 | global log |
| 246 | log = log + "startDocument:" |
| 247 | |
| 248 | def endDocument(self): |
| 249 | global log |
| 250 | log = log + "endDocument:" |
| 251 | |
| 252 | def startElement(self, tag, attrs): |
| 253 | global log |
| 254 | log = log + "startElement %s %s:" % (tag, attrs) |
| 255 | |
| 256 | def endElement(self, tag): |
| 257 | global log |
| 258 | log = log + "endElement %s:" % (tag) |
| 259 | |
| 260 | def characters(self, data): |
| 261 | global log |
| 262 | log = log + "characters: %s:" % (data) |
| 263 | |
| 264 | def warning(self, msg): |
| 265 | global log |
| 266 | log = log + "warning: %s:" % (msg) |
| 267 | |
| 268 | def error(self, msg): |
| 269 | global log |
| 270 | log = log + "error: %s:" % (msg) |
| 271 | |
| 272 | def fatalError(self, msg): |
| 273 | global log |
| 274 | log = log + "fatalError: %s:" % (msg) |
| 275 | |
| 276 | handler = callback() |
| 277 | |
| 278 | ctxt = libxml2.createPushParser(handler, "<foo", 4, "test.xml") |
| 279 | chunk = " url='tst'>b" |
| 280 | ctxt.parseChunk(chunk, len(chunk), 0) |
| 281 | chunk = "ar</foo>" |
| 282 | ctxt.parseChunk(chunk, len(chunk), 1) |
| 283 | |
Daniel Veillard | fcbfa2d | 2002-02-21 17:54:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 284 | reference = "startDocument:startElement foo {'url': 'tst'}:" + \ |
| 285 | "characters: bar:endElement foo:endDocument:" |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 286 | if log != reference: |
| 287 | print "Error got: %s" % log |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 288 | print "Expected: %s" % reference</pre> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 289 | <p>The key object in that test is the handler, it provides a number of entry |
| 290 | points which can be called by the parser as it makes progresses to indicate |
| 291 | the information set obtained. The full set of callback is larger than what |
| 292 | the callback class in that specific example implements (see the SAX |
| 293 | definition for a complete list). The wrapper will only call those supplied by |
| 294 | the object when activated. The startElement receives the names of the element |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 295 | and a dictionary containing the attributes carried by this element.</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 296 | <p>Also note that the reference string generated from the callback shows a |
| 297 | single character call even though the string "bar" is passed to the parser |
| 298 | from 2 different call to parseChunk()</p> |
| 299 | <h3>xpath.py:</h3> |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 300 | <p>This is a basic test of XPath wrappers support</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 301 | <pre>import libxml2 |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | |
| 303 | doc = libxml2.parseFile("tst.xml") |
| 304 | ctxt = doc.xpathNewContext() |
| 305 | res = ctxt.xpathEval("//*") |
| 306 | if len(res) != 2: |
| 307 | print "xpath query: wrong node set size" |
| 308 | sys.exit(1) |
| 309 | if res[0].name != "doc" or res[1].name != "foo": |
| 310 | print "xpath query: wrong node set value" |
| 311 | sys.exit(1) |
| 312 | doc.freeDoc() |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 313 | ctxt.xpathFreeContext()</pre> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 314 | <p>This test parses a file, then create an XPath context to evaluate XPath |
| 315 | expression on it. The xpathEval() method execute an XPath query and returns |
| 316 | the result mapped in a Python way. String and numbers are natively converted, |
| 317 | and node sets are returned as a tuple of libxml2 Python nodes wrappers. Like |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 318 | the document, the XPath context need to be freed explicitly, also not that |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 319 | the result of the XPath query may point back to the document tree and hence |
| 320 | the document must be freed after the result of the query is used.</p> |
| 321 | <h3>xpathext.py:</h3> |
| 322 | <p>This test shows how to extend the XPath engine with functions written in |
| 323 | python:</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 324 | <pre>import libxml2 |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 325 | |
| 326 | def foo(ctx, x): |
| 327 | return x + 1 |
| 328 | |
| 329 | doc = libxml2.parseFile("tst.xml") |
| 330 | ctxt = doc.xpathNewContext() |
| 331 | libxml2.registerXPathFunction(ctxt._o, "foo", None, foo) |
| 332 | res = ctxt.xpathEval("foo(1)") |
| 333 | if res != 2: |
| 334 | print "xpath extension failure" |
| 335 | doc.freeDoc() |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 336 | ctxt.xpathFreeContext()</pre> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | <p>Note how the extension function is registered with the context (but that |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 338 | part is not yet finalized, this may change slightly in the future).</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 339 | <h3>tstxpath.py:</h3> |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 340 | <p>This test is similar to the previous one but shows how the extension |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | function can access the XPath evaluation context:</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 342 | <pre>def foo(ctx, x): |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 343 | global called |
| 344 | |
| 345 | # |
| 346 | # test that access to the XPath evaluation contexts |
| 347 | # |
| 348 | pctxt = libxml2.xpathParserContext(_obj=ctx) |
| 349 | ctxt = pctxt.context() |
| 350 | called = ctxt.function() |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 351 | return x + 1</pre> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 352 | <p>All the interfaces around the XPath parser(or rather evaluation) context |
| 353 | are not finalized, but it should be sufficient to do contextual work at the |
| 354 | evaluation point.</p> |
| 355 | <h3>Memory debugging:</h3> |
| 356 | <p>last but not least, all tests starts with the following prologue:</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 357 | <pre>#memory debug specific |
Daniel Veillard | af43f63 | 2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 358 | libxml2.debugMemory(1)</pre> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 359 | <p>and ends with the following epilogue:</p> |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 360 | <pre>#memory debug specific |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 361 | libxml2.cleanupParser() |
| 362 | if libxml2.debugMemory(1) == 0: |
| 363 | print "OK" |
| 364 | else: |
| 365 | print "Memory leak %d bytes" % (libxml2.debugMemory(1)) |
Daniel Veillard | 9eb146b | 2002-02-21 16:04:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 366 | libxml2.dumpMemory()</pre> |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 367 | <p>Those activate the memory debugging interface of libxml2 where all |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 368 | allocated block in the library are tracked. The prologue then cleans up the |
Daniel Veillard | 6dbcaf8 | 2002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 369 | library state and checks that all allocated memory has been freed. If not it |
| 370 | calls dumpMemory() which saves that list in a <code>.memdump</code> file.</p> |
| 371 | <p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p> |
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