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interfaces for the utilities module of the XSLT engine. things like message handling, profiling, and other generally useful routines.

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#define IS_XSLT_ELEM
#define IS_XSLT_NAME
#define IS_XSLT_REAL_NODE
#define XSLT_STRANGE
#define XSLT_TIMESTAMP_TICS_PER_SEC
#define XSLT_TODO
#define XSLT_TRACE
Enum xsltDebugStatusCodes
Enum xsltDebugTraceCodes
int	xslAddCall			(xsltTemplatePtr templ, 
xmlNodePtr source)
void	xslDropCall			(void)
Function type: xsltAddCallCallback
int	xsltAddCallCallback		(xsltTemplatePtr templ, 
xmlNodePtr source)
void	xsltCalibrateAdjust		(long delta)
xmlXPathObjectPtr *	xsltComputeSortResult	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xmlNodePtr sort)
xsltDebugTraceCodes	xsltDebugGetDefaultTrace	(void)
void	xsltDebugSetDefaultTrace	(xsltDebugTraceCodes val)
void	xsltDefaultSortFunction		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xmlNodePtr * sorts,
int nbsorts)
void	xsltDoSortFunction		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xmlNodePtr * sorts,
int nbsorts)
void	xsltDocumentSortFunction	(xmlNodeSetPtr list)
Function type: xsltDropCallCallback
void	xsltDropCallCallback		(void)
const xmlChar *	xsltGetCNsProp		(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
xmlNodePtr node,
const xmlChar * name,
const xmlChar * nameSpace)
int	xsltGetDebuggerStatus		(void)
xmlChar *	xsltGetNsProp		(xmlNodePtr node, 
const xmlChar * name,
const xmlChar * nameSpace)
xmlDocPtr	xsltGetProfileInformation	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt)
const xmlChar *	xsltGetQNameURI		(xmlNodePtr node, 
xmlChar ** name)
const xmlChar *	xsltGetQNameURI2	(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
xmlNodePtr node,
const xmlChar ** name)
int	xsltGetUTF8Char			(const unsigned char * utf, 
int * len)
Function type: xsltHandleDebuggerCallback
void	xsltHandleDebuggerCallback	(xmlNodePtr cur, 
xmlNodePtr node,
xsltTemplatePtr templ,
xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt)
void	xsltMessage			(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xmlNodePtr node,
xmlNodePtr inst)
void	xsltPrintErrorContext		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xsltStylesheetPtr style,
xmlNodePtr node)
void	xsltSaveProfiling		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
FILE * output)
int	xsltSaveResultTo		(xmlOutputBufferPtr buf, 
xmlDocPtr result,
xsltStylesheetPtr style)
int	xsltSaveResultToFd		(int fd, 
xmlDocPtr result,
xsltStylesheetPtr style)
int	xsltSaveResultToFile		(FILE * file, 
xmlDocPtr result,
xsltStylesheetPtr style)
int	xsltSaveResultToFilename	(const char * URL, 
xmlDocPtr result,
xsltStylesheetPtr style,
int compression)
int	xsltSaveResultToString		(xmlChar ** doc_txt_ptr, 
int * doc_txt_len,
xmlDocPtr result,
xsltStylesheetPtr style)
int	xsltSetCtxtParseOptions		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
int options)
void	xsltSetCtxtSortFunc		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xsltSortFunc handler)
int	xsltSetDebuggerCallbacks	(int no, 
void * block)
void	xsltSetDebuggerStatus		(int value)
void	xsltSetGenericDebugFunc		(void * ctx, 
xmlGenericErrorFunc handler)
void	xsltSetGenericErrorFunc		(void * ctx, 
xmlGenericErrorFunc handler)
void	xsltSetSortFunc			(xsltSortFunc handler)
void	xsltSetTransformErrorFunc	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
void * ctx,
xmlGenericErrorFunc handler)
const xmlChar *	xsltSplitQName		(xmlDictPtr dict, 
const xmlChar * name,
const xmlChar ** prefix)
long	xsltTimestamp			(void)
void	xsltTransformError		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xsltStylesheetPtr style,
xmlNodePtr node,
const char * msg,
... ...)
xmlXPathCompExprPtr	xsltXPathCompile	(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
const xmlChar * str)
xmlXPathCompExprPtr	xsltXPathCompileFlags	(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
const xmlChar * str,
int flags)

Description

Macro: IS_XSLT_ELEM

#define IS_XSLT_ELEM

Checks that the element pertains to XSLT namespace.

Macro: IS_XSLT_NAME

#define IS_XSLT_NAME

Checks the value of an element in XSLT namespace.

Macro: IS_XSLT_REAL_NODE

#define IS_XSLT_REAL_NODE

Check that a node is a 'real' one: document, element, text or attribute.

Macro: XSLT_STRANGE

#define XSLT_STRANGE

Macro to flag that a problem was detected internally.

Macro: XSLT_TIMESTAMP_TICS_PER_SEC

#define XSLT_TIMESTAMP_TICS_PER_SEC

Sampling precision for profiling

Macro: XSLT_TODO

#define XSLT_TODO

Macro to flag unimplemented blocks.

Macro: XSLT_TRACE

#define XSLT_TRACE

Control the type of xsl debugtrace messages emitted.

Enum xsltDebugStatusCodes

Enum xsltDebugStatusCodes {
    XSLT_DEBUG_NONE = 0 : no debugging allowed
    XSLT_DEBUG_INIT = 1
    XSLT_DEBUG_STEP = 2
    XSLT_DEBUG_STEPOUT = 3
    XSLT_DEBUG_NEXT = 4
    XSLT_DEBUG_STOP = 5
    XSLT_DEBUG_CONT = 6
    XSLT_DEBUG_RUN = 7
    XSLT_DEBUG_RUN_RESTART = 8
    XSLT_DEBUG_QUIT = 9
}

Enum xsltDebugTraceCodes

Enum xsltDebugTraceCodes {
    XSLT_TRACE_ALL = -1
    XSLT_TRACE_NONE = 0
    XSLT_TRACE_COPY_TEXT = 1
    XSLT_TRACE_PROCESS_NODE = 2
    XSLT_TRACE_APPLY_TEMPLATE = 4
    XSLT_TRACE_COPY = 8
    XSLT_TRACE_COMMENT = 16
    XSLT_TRACE_PI = 32
    XSLT_TRACE_COPY_OF = 64
    XSLT_TRACE_VALUE_OF = 128
    XSLT_TRACE_CALL_TEMPLATE = 256
    XSLT_TRACE_APPLY_TEMPLATES = 512
    XSLT_TRACE_CHOOSE = 1024
    XSLT_TRACE_IF = 2048
    XSLT_TRACE_FOR_EACH = 4096
    XSLT_TRACE_STRIP_SPACES = 8192
    XSLT_TRACE_TEMPLATES = 16384
    XSLT_TRACE_KEYS = 32768
    XSLT_TRACE_VARIABLES = 65536
}

Function: xslAddCall

int	xslAddCall			(xsltTemplatePtr templ, 
xmlNodePtr source)

Add template "call" to call stack

templ:current template being applied
source:the source node being processed
Returns:: 1 on sucess 0 otherwise an error may be printed if WITH_XSLT_DEBUG_BREAKPOINTS is defined

Function: xslDropCall

void	xslDropCall			(void)

Drop the topmost item off the call stack

Function type: xsltAddCallCallback

Function type: xsltAddCallCallback
int	xsltAddCallCallback		(xsltTemplatePtr templ, 
xmlNodePtr source)

templ:
source:
Returns:

Function: xsltCalibrateAdjust

void	xsltCalibrateAdjust		(long delta)

Used for to correct the calibration for xsltTimestamp()

delta:a negative dealy value found

Function: xsltComputeSortResult

xmlXPathObjectPtr *	xsltComputeSortResult	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xmlNodePtr sort)

reorder the current node list accordingly to the set of sorting requirement provided by the array of nodes.

ctxt:a XSLT process context
sort:node list
Returns:a ordered XPath nodeset or NULL in case of error.

Function: xsltDebugGetDefaultTrace

xsltDebugTraceCodes	xsltDebugGetDefaultTrace	(void)

Get the current default debug tracing level mask

Returns:the current default debug tracing level mask

Function: xsltDebugSetDefaultTrace

void	xsltDebugSetDefaultTrace	(xsltDebugTraceCodes val)

Set the default debug tracing level mask

val:tracing level mask

Function: xsltDefaultSortFunction

void	xsltDefaultSortFunction		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xmlNodePtr * sorts,
int nbsorts)

reorder the current node list accordingly to the set of sorting requirement provided by the arry of nodes.

ctxt:a XSLT process context
sorts:array of sort nodes
nbsorts:the number of sorts in the array

Function: xsltDoSortFunction

void	xsltDoSortFunction		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xmlNodePtr * sorts,
int nbsorts)

reorder the current node list accordingly to the set of sorting requirement provided by the arry of nodes. This is a wrapper function, the actual function used is specified using xsltSetCtxtSortFunc() to set the context specific sort function, or xsltSetSortFunc() to set the global sort function. If a sort function is set on the context, this will get called. Otherwise the global sort function is called.

ctxt:a XSLT process context
sorts:array of sort nodes
nbsorts:the number of sorts in the array

Function: xsltDocumentSortFunction

void	xsltDocumentSortFunction	(xmlNodeSetPtr list)

reorder the current node list @list accordingly to the document order This function is slow, obsolete and should not be used anymore.

list:the node set

Function type: xsltDropCallCallback

Function type: xsltDropCallCallback
void	xsltDropCallCallback		(void)


Function: xsltGetCNsProp

const xmlChar *	xsltGetCNsProp		(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
xmlNodePtr node,
const xmlChar * name,
const xmlChar * nameSpace)

Similar to xmlGetNsProp() but with a slightly different semantic Search and get the value of an attribute associated to a node This attribute has to be anchored in the namespace specified, or has no namespace and the element is in that namespace. This does the entity substitution. This function looks in DTD attribute declaration for #FIXED or default declaration values unless DTD use has been turned off.

style:the stylesheet
node:the node
name:the attribute name
nameSpace:the URI of the namespace
Returns:the attribute value or NULL if not found. The string is allocated in the stylesheet dictionary.

Function: xsltGetDebuggerStatus

int	xsltGetDebuggerStatus		(void)

Get xslDebugStatus.

Returns:the value of xslDebugStatus.

Function: xsltGetNsProp

xmlChar *	xsltGetNsProp		(xmlNodePtr node, 
const xmlChar * name,
const xmlChar * nameSpace)

Similar to xmlGetNsProp() but with a slightly different semantic Search and get the value of an attribute associated to a node This attribute has to be anchored in the namespace specified, or has no namespace and the element is in that namespace. This does the entity substitution. This function looks in DTD attribute declaration for #FIXED or default declaration values unless DTD use has been turned off.

node:the node
name:the attribute name
nameSpace:the URI of the namespace
Returns:the attribute value or NULL if not found. It's up to the caller to free the memory.

Function: xsltGetProfileInformation

xmlDocPtr	xsltGetProfileInformation	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt)

This function should be called after the transformation completed to extract template processing profiling informations if availble. The informations are returned as an XML document tree like <?xml version="1.0"?> <profile> <template rank="1" match="*" name="" mode="" calls="6" time="48" average="8"/> <template rank="2" match="item2|item3" name="" mode="" calls="10" time="30" average="3"/> <template rank="3" match="item1" name="" mode="" calls="5" time="17" average="3"/> </profile> The caller will need to free up the returned tree with xmlFreeDoc()

ctxt:a transformation context
Returns:the xmlDocPtr corresponding to the result or NULL if not available.

Function: xsltGetQNameURI

const xmlChar *	xsltGetQNameURI		(xmlNodePtr node, 
xmlChar ** name)

This function analyzes @name, if the name contains a prefix, the function seaches the associated namespace in scope for it. It will also replace @name value with the NCName, the old value being freed. Errors in the prefix lookup are signalled by setting @name to NULL. NOTE: the namespace returned is a pointer to the place where it is defined and hence has the same lifespan as the document holding it.

node:the node holding the QName
name:pointer to the initial QName value
Returns:the namespace URI if there is a prefix, or NULL if @name is not prefixed.

Function: xsltGetQNameURI2

const xmlChar *	xsltGetQNameURI2	(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
xmlNodePtr node,
const xmlChar ** name)

This function is similar to xsltGetQNameURI, but is used when @name is a dictionary entry.

style:stylesheet pointer
node:the node holding the QName
name:pointer to the initial QName value
Returns:the namespace URI if there is a prefix, or NULL if @name is not prefixed.

Function: xsltGetUTF8Char

int	xsltGetUTF8Char			(const unsigned char * utf, 
int * len)

Read one UTF8 Char from @utf Function copied from libxml2 xmlGetUTF8Char() ... to discard ultimately and use the original API

utf:a sequence of UTF-8 encoded bytes
len:a pointer to @bytes len
Returns:the char value or -1 in case of error and update @len with the number of bytes used

Function type: xsltHandleDebuggerCallback

Function type: xsltHandleDebuggerCallback
void	xsltHandleDebuggerCallback	(xmlNodePtr cur, 
xmlNodePtr node,
xsltTemplatePtr templ,
xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt)

cur:
node:
templ:
ctxt:

Function: xsltMessage

void	xsltMessage			(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xmlNodePtr node,
xmlNodePtr inst)

Process and xsl:message construct

ctxt:an XSLT processing context
node:The current node
inst:The node containing the message instruction

Function: xsltPrintErrorContext

void	xsltPrintErrorContext		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xsltStylesheetPtr style,
xmlNodePtr node)

Display the context of an error.

ctxt:the transformation context
style:the stylesheet
node:the current node being processed

Function: xsltSaveProfiling

void	xsltSaveProfiling		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
FILE * output)

Save the profiling informations on @output

ctxt:an XSLT context
output:a FILE * for saving the informations

Function: xsltSaveResultTo

int	xsltSaveResultTo		(xmlOutputBufferPtr buf, 
xmlDocPtr result,
xsltStylesheetPtr style)

Save the result @result obtained by applying the @style stylesheet to an I/O output channel @buf

buf:an output buffer
result:the result xmlDocPtr
style:the stylesheet
Returns:the number of byte written or -1 in case of failure.

Function: xsltSaveResultToFd

int	xsltSaveResultToFd		(int fd, 
xmlDocPtr result,
xsltStylesheetPtr style)

Save the result @result obtained by applying the @style stylesheet to an open file descriptor This does not close the descriptor.

fd:a file descriptor
result:the result xmlDocPtr
style:the stylesheet
Returns:the number of bytes written or -1 in case of failure.

Function: xsltSaveResultToFile

int	xsltSaveResultToFile		(FILE * file, 
xmlDocPtr result,
xsltStylesheetPtr style)

Save the result @result obtained by applying the @style stylesheet to an open FILE * I/O. This does not close the FILE @file

file:a FILE * I/O
result:the result xmlDocPtr
style:the stylesheet
Returns:the number of bytes written or -1 in case of failure.

Function: xsltSaveResultToFilename

int	xsltSaveResultToFilename	(const char * URL, 
xmlDocPtr result,
xsltStylesheetPtr style,
int compression)

Save the result @result obtained by applying the @style stylesheet to a file or @URL

URL:a filename or URL
result:the result xmlDocPtr
style:the stylesheet
compression:the compression factor (0 - 9 included)
Returns:the number of byte written or -1 in case of failure.

Function: xsltSaveResultToString

int	xsltSaveResultToString		(xmlChar ** doc_txt_ptr, 
int * doc_txt_len,
xmlDocPtr result,
xsltStylesheetPtr style)

Save the result @result obtained by applying the @style stylesheet to a new allocated string.

doc_txt_ptr:Memory pointer for allocated XML text
doc_txt_len:Length of the generated XML text
result:the result xmlDocPtr
style:the stylesheet
Returns:0 in case of success and -1 in case of error

Function: xsltSetCtxtParseOptions

int	xsltSetCtxtParseOptions		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
int options)

Change the default parser option passed by the XSLT engine to the parser when using document() loading.

ctxt:a XSLT process context
options:a combination of libxml2 xmlParserOption
Returns:the previous options or -1 in case of error

Function: xsltSetCtxtSortFunc

void	xsltSetCtxtSortFunc		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xsltSortFunc handler)

Function to set the handler for XSLT sorting for the specified context. If the handler is NULL, then the global sort function will be called

ctxt:a XSLT process context
handler:the new handler function

Function: xsltSetDebuggerCallbacks

int	xsltSetDebuggerCallbacks	(int no, 
void * block)

This function allow to plug a debugger into the XSLT library @block points to a block of memory containing the address of @no callback routines.

no:number of callbacks
block:the block of callbacks
Returns:0 in case of success and -1 in case of error

Function: xsltSetDebuggerStatus

void	xsltSetDebuggerStatus		(int value)

This function sets the value of xslDebugStatus.

value:the value to be set

Function: xsltSetGenericDebugFunc

void	xsltSetGenericDebugFunc		(void * ctx, 
xmlGenericErrorFunc handler)

Function to reset the handler and the error context for out of context error messages. This simply means that @handler will be called for subsequent error messages while not parsing or validating. And @ctx will be passed as first argument to @handler One can simply force messages to be emitted to another FILE * than stderr by setting @ctx to this file handle and @handler to NULL.

ctx:the new error handling context
handler:the new handler function

Function: xsltSetGenericErrorFunc

void	xsltSetGenericErrorFunc		(void * ctx, 
xmlGenericErrorFunc handler)

Function to reset the handler and the error context for out of context error messages. This simply means that @handler will be called for subsequent error messages while not parsing nor validating. And @ctx will be passed as first argument to @handler One can simply force messages to be emitted to another FILE * than stderr by setting @ctx to this file handle and @handler to NULL.

ctx:the new error handling context
handler:the new handler function

Function: xsltSetSortFunc

void	xsltSetSortFunc			(xsltSortFunc handler)

Function to reset the global handler for XSLT sorting. If the handler is NULL, the default sort function will be used.

handler:the new handler function

Function: xsltSetTransformErrorFunc

void	xsltSetTransformErrorFunc	(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
void * ctx,
xmlGenericErrorFunc handler)

Function to reset the handler and the error context for out of context error messages specific to a given XSLT transromation. This simply means that @handler will be called for subsequent error messages while running the transformation.

ctxt:the XSLT transformation context
ctx:the new error handling context
handler:the new handler function

Function: xsltSplitQName

const xmlChar *	xsltSplitQName		(xmlDictPtr dict, 
const xmlChar * name,
const xmlChar ** prefix)

Split QNames into prefix and local names, both allocated from a dictionary.

dict:a dictionary
name:the full QName
prefix:the return value
Returns:the localname or NULL in case of error.

Function: xsltTimestamp

long	xsltTimestamp			(void)

Used for gathering profiling data

Returns:the number of tenth of milliseconds since the beginning of the profiling

Function: xsltTransformError

void	xsltTransformError		(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt, 
xsltStylesheetPtr style,
xmlNodePtr node,
const char * msg,
... ...)

Display and format an error messages, gives file, line, position and extra parameters, will use the specific transformation context if available

ctxt:an XSLT transformation context
style:the XSLT stylesheet used
node:the current node in the stylesheet
msg:the message to display/transmit
...:extra parameters for the message display

Function: xsltXPathCompile

xmlXPathCompExprPtr	xsltXPathCompile	(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
const xmlChar * str)

Compile an XPath expression

style:the stylesheet
str:the XPath expression
Returns:the xmlXPathCompExprPtr resulting from the compilation or NULL. the caller has to free the object.

Function: xsltXPathCompileFlags

xmlXPathCompExprPtr	xsltXPathCompileFlags	(xsltStylesheetPtr style, 
const xmlChar * str,
int flags)

Compile an XPath expression

style:the stylesheet
str:the XPath expression
flags:extra compilation flags to pass down to libxml2 XPath
Returns:the xmlXPathCompExprPtr resulting from the compilation or NULL. the caller has to free the object.

Daniel Veillard