Method Parser.XML.Tree.XMLParser()->node_factory()

Method node_factory

protected AbstractSimpleNode node_factory(int type, string name, mapping attr, string text)

Description

Factory for creating nodes.

Parameter type

Type of node to create. One of:

`XML_TEXT`	XML text. `text` contains a string with the text.
`XML_COMMENT`	XML comment. `text` contains a string with the comment text.
`XML_HEADER`	`<?xml?>`-header `attr` contains a mapping with the attributes.
`XML_PI`	XML processing instruction. `name` contains the name of the processing instruction and `text` the remainder.
`XML_ELEMENT`	XML element tag. `name` contains the name of the tag and `attr` the attributes.
`XML_DOCTYPE`	DTD information.
`DTD_ENTITY`
`DTD_ELEMENT`
`DTD_ATTLIST`
`DTD_NOTATION`

Parameter name

Name of the tag if applicable.

Parameter attr

Attributes for the tag if applicable.

Parameter text

Contained text of the tab if any.

This function is called during parsning to create the various XML nodes.

Overload this function to provide application-specific XML nodes.

Returns

Returns a node object representing the XML tag, or 0 (zero) if the subtree rooted in the tag should be cut.

Note

This function is not available in Pike 7.6 and earlier.