XML Namespaces

XML Namespaces — Namespaces in XML include stacks of Namespaces

Synopsis

typedef             raptor_namespace;
raptor_namespace *  raptor_new_namespace_from_uri       (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         const unsigned char *prefix,
                                                         raptor_uri *ns_uri,
                                                         int depth);
raptor_namespace_stack * raptor_new_namespaces          (raptor_world *world,
                                                         int defaults);
int                 raptor_namespaces_init              (raptor_world *world,
                                                         raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         int defaults);
void                raptor_namespaces_clear             (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack);
void                raptor_free_namespaces              (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack);
void                raptor_namespaces_start_namespace   (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         raptor_namespace *nspace);
int                 raptor_namespaces_start_namespace_full
                                                        (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         const unsigned char *prefix,
                                                         const unsigned char *ns_uri_string,
                                                         int depth);
void                raptor_namespaces_end_for_depth     (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         int depth);
raptor_namespace *  raptor_namespaces_get_default_namespace
                                                        (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack);
raptor_namespace *  raptor_namespaces_find_namespace    (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         const unsigned char *prefix,
                                                         int prefix_length);
raptor_namespace *  raptor_namespaces_find_namespace_by_uri
                                                        (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         raptor_uri *ns_uri);
int                 raptor_namespaces_namespace_in_scope
                                                        (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         const raptor_namespace *nspace);
raptor_namespace *  raptor_new_namespace                (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         const unsigned char *prefix,
                                                         const unsigned char *ns_uri_string,
                                                         int depth);
void                raptor_free_namespace               (raptor_namespace *ns);
raptor_uri *        raptor_namespace_get_uri            (const raptor_namespace *ns);
const unsigned char * raptor_namespace_get_prefix       (const raptor_namespace *ns);
const unsigned char * raptor_namespace_get_counted_prefix
                                                        (const raptor_namespace *ns,
                                                         size_t *length_p);
int                 raptor_namespace_write              (raptor_namespace *ns,
                                                         raptor_iostream *iostr);
typedef             raptor_namespace_stack;
int                 raptor_namespace_stack_start_namespace
                                                        (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         raptor_namespace *ns,
                                                         int new_depth);
unsigned char *     raptor_namespace_format_as_xml      (const raptor_namespace *ns,
                                                         size_t *length_p);
int                 raptor_xml_namespace_string_parse   (const unsigned char *string,
                                                         unsigned char **prefix,
                                                         unsigned char **uri_string);

Description

Two classes that provide an XML namespace - short prefix (or none) and absolute URI (or none) to match the form xmlns...="..." seen in XML. A stack of namespaces raptor_namespace_stack is also provided to handle in-scope namespace calculations that happen inside XML documents where inner namespaces can override outer ones.

Details

raptor_namespace

raptor_namespace* raptor_namespace;

Raptor XML Namespace class


raptor_new_namespace_from_uri ()

raptor_namespace *  raptor_new_namespace_from_uri       (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         const unsigned char *prefix,
                                                         raptor_uri *ns_uri,
                                                         int depth);

Constructor - create a new namespace from a prefix and URI object.

This declares but does not enable the namespace declaration (or 'start' it) Use raptor_namespaces_start_namespace() to make the namespace enabled and in scope for binding prefixes.

Alternatively use raptor_namespaces_start_namespace_full() can construct and enable a namespace in one call.

nstack :

namespace stack

prefix :

namespace prefix string

ns_uri :

namespace URI

depth :

depth of namespace in the stack

Returns :

a new raptor_namespace or NULL on failure

raptor_new_namespaces ()

raptor_namespace_stack * raptor_new_namespaces          (raptor_world *world,
                                                         int defaults);

Constructor - create a new raptor_namespace_stack.

See raptor_namespaces_init() for the values of defaults.

world :

raptor_world object

defaults :

namespaces to initialise

Returns :

a new namespace stack or NULL on failure

raptor_namespaces_init ()

int                 raptor_namespaces_init              (raptor_world *world,
                                                         raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         int defaults);

Initialise an existing namespaces stack object

This sets up the stack optionally with some common RDF namespaces.

defaults can be 0 for none, 1 for just XML, 2 for RDF, RDFS, OWL and XSD (RDQL uses this) or 3+ undefined.

world :

raptor_world object

nstack :

raptor_namespace_stack to initialise

defaults :

namespaces to initialise.

Returns :

non-0 on error

raptor_namespaces_clear ()

void                raptor_namespaces_clear             (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack);

Empty a namespace stack of namespaces and any other resources.

nstack :

namespace stack

raptor_free_namespaces ()

void                raptor_free_namespaces              (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack);

Destructor - destroy a namespace stack

nstack :

namespace stack

raptor_namespaces_start_namespace ()

void                raptor_namespaces_start_namespace   (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         raptor_namespace *nspace);

Start a namespace on a stack of namespaces.

nstack :

namespace stack

nspace :

namespace to start

raptor_namespaces_start_namespace_full ()

int                 raptor_namespaces_start_namespace_full
                                                        (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         const unsigned char *prefix,
                                                         const unsigned char *ns_uri_string,
                                                         int depth);

Create a new namespace and start it on a stack of namespaces.

See raptor_new_namespace() for the meanings of prefix, ns_uri_string and depth for namespaces.

nstack :

namespace stack

prefix :

new namespace prefix (or NULL)

ns_uri_string :

new namespace URI (or NULL)

depth :

new namespace depth

Returns :

non-0 on failure

raptor_namespaces_end_for_depth ()

void                raptor_namespaces_end_for_depth     (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         int depth);

End all namespaces at the given depth in the namespace stack.

nstack :

namespace stack

depth :

depth

raptor_namespaces_get_default_namespace ()

raptor_namespace *  raptor_namespaces_get_default_namespace
                                                        (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack);

Get the current default namespace in-scope in a stack.

nstack :

namespace stack

Returns :

raptor_namespace or NULL if no default namespace is in scope

raptor_namespaces_find_namespace ()

raptor_namespace *  raptor_namespaces_find_namespace    (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         const unsigned char *prefix,
                                                         int prefix_length);

Find a namespace in a namespace stack by prefix.

Note that this uses the length so that the prefix may be a prefix (sic) of a longer string. If prefix is NULL, the default namespace will be returned if present, prefix_length length is ignored in this case.

nstack :

namespace stack

prefix :

namespace prefix to find

prefix_length :

length of prefix.

Returns :

raptor_namespace for the prefix or NULL on failure

raptor_namespaces_find_namespace_by_uri ()

raptor_namespace *  raptor_namespaces_find_namespace_by_uri
                                                        (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         raptor_uri *ns_uri);

Find a namespace in a namespace stack by namespace URI.

nstack :

namespace stack

ns_uri :

namespace URI to find

Returns :

raptor_namespace for the URI or NULL on failure

raptor_namespaces_namespace_in_scope ()

int                 raptor_namespaces_namespace_in_scope
                                                        (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         const raptor_namespace *nspace);

Test if a given namespace is in-scope in the namespace stack.

nstack :

namespace stack

nspace :

namespace

Returns :

non-0 if the namespace is in scope.

raptor_new_namespace ()

raptor_namespace *  raptor_new_namespace                (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         const unsigned char *prefix,
                                                         const unsigned char *ns_uri_string,
                                                         int depth);

Constructor - create a new namespace from a prefix and URI string with a depth scope.

This declares but does not enable the namespace declaration (or 'start' it) Use raptor_namespaces_start_namespace() to make the namespace enabled and in scope for binding prefixes.

Alternatively use raptor_namespaces_start_namespace_full() can construct and enable a namespace in one call.

The depth is a way to use the stack of namespaces for providing scoped namespaces where inner scope namespaces override outer scope namespaces. This is primarily for RDF/XML and XML syntaxes that have hierarchical elements. The main use of this is raptor_namespaces_end_for_depth() to disable ('end') all namespaces at a given depth. Otherwise set this to 0.

nstack :

namespace stack

prefix :

namespace prefix string

ns_uri_string :

namespace URI string

depth :

depth of namespace in the stack

Returns :

a new raptor_namespace or NULL on failure

raptor_free_namespace ()

void                raptor_free_namespace               (raptor_namespace *ns);

Destructor - destroy a namespace.

ns :

namespace object

raptor_namespace_get_uri ()

raptor_uri *        raptor_namespace_get_uri            (const raptor_namespace *ns);

Get the namespace URI.

ns :

namespace object

Returns :

namespace URI or NULL

raptor_namespace_get_prefix ()

const unsigned char * raptor_namespace_get_prefix       (const raptor_namespace *ns);

Get the namespace prefix.

ns :

namespace object

Returns :

prefix string or NULL

raptor_namespace_get_counted_prefix ()

const unsigned char * raptor_namespace_get_counted_prefix
                                                        (const raptor_namespace *ns,
                                                         size_t *length_p);

Get the namespace prefix and length.

ns :

namespace object

length_p :

pointer to store length or NULL

Returns :

prefix string or NULL

raptor_namespace_write ()

int                 raptor_namespace_write              (raptor_namespace *ns,
                                                         raptor_iostream *iostr);

Write a formatted namespace to an iostream

ns :

namespace to write

iostr :

raptor iosteram

Returns :

non-0 on failure

raptor_namespace_stack

raptor_namespace_stack* raptor_namespace_stack;

Raptor XML Namespace Stack class


raptor_namespace_stack_start_namespace ()

int                 raptor_namespace_stack_start_namespace
                                                        (raptor_namespace_stack *nstack,
                                                         raptor_namespace *ns,
                                                         int new_depth);

Copy an existing namespace to a namespace stack with a new depth and start it.

The depth is a way to use the stack of namespaces for providing scoped namespaces where inner scope namespaces override outer scope namespaces. This is primarily for RDF/XML and XML syntaxes that have hierarchical elements. The main use of this is raptor_namespaces_end_for_depth() to disable ('end') all namespaces at a given depth. If depths are not being needed it is unlikely this call is ever needed to copy an existing namespace at a new depth.

nstack :

namespace stack

ns :

namespace

new_depth :

new depth

Returns :

non-0 on failure

raptor_namespace_format_as_xml ()

unsigned char *     raptor_namespace_format_as_xml      (const raptor_namespace *ns,
                                                         size_t *length_p);

Format a namespace in an XML style into a newly allocated string.

Generates a string of the form xmlns:prefix="uri", xmlns="uri", xmlns:prefix="" or xmlns="" depending on the namespace's prefix or URI. Double quotes are always used.

If length_p is not NULL, the length of the string is stored in the address it points to.

See also raptor_xml_namespace_string_parse()

ns :

namespace object

length_p :

pointer to length (or NULL)

Returns :

namespace formatted as newly allocated string or NULL on failure

raptor_xml_namespace_string_parse ()

int                 raptor_xml_namespace_string_parse   (const unsigned char *string,
                                                         unsigned char **prefix,
                                                         unsigned char **uri_string);

Parse a string containing an XML style namespace declaration into a namespace prefix and URI pair.

The string is of the form xmlns:prefix="uri", xmlns="uri", xmlns:prefix="" or xmlns="". The quotes can be single or double quotes.

Two values are returned from this function into *prefix and *uri_string. Either but not both may be NULL.

See also raptor_namespace_format_as_xml()

string :

string to parse

prefix :

pointer to location to store namespace prefix

uri_string :

pointer to location to store namespace URI

Returns :

non-0 on failure.