domNode -
Manipulates an instance of a DOM node object
$nodeObject method arg arg ...
This command manipulates one particular instance of a DOM node object.
method indicates a specific method of the node class. These methods
should closely conform to the W3C recommendation "Document Object Model
(Core) Level 1" (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/level-one-core.html)
as well to parts of the W3C draft "XML Pointer Language (XPointer)"
(http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-xptr-19980303).
Please note, that the XPointer methods are deprecated. Use DOM methods
or XPath expressions instead of them.
The selectNodes method implements the "XML Path
Language (XPath) Version 1.0" W3C recommendation 16 November 1999 (http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116). Look
at these documents for a deeper understanding of the functionality.
The valid methods are:
- nodeType
- Returns the node type of that node object. This can be:
ELEMENT_NODE, TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE or
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE.
- nodeName
- Returns the node name of that node object. This is the element
(tag) name for element nodes (type ELEMENT_NODE), the processing-instruction
target for processing-instructions, "#text" for text node,
"#comment" for comment nodes or "#cdata" for cdata section
nodes.
-
nodeValue ?newValue?
- Returns the value of that node object. This is the the text or
the data for element nodes of type TEXT_NODE, COMMENT_NODE,
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE or CDATA_SECTION_NODE). Otherwise it is empty. If
the node is a TEXT_NODE, COMMENT_NODE or PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE and the
optional argument newValue is given, the node is set to that
value.
- hasChildNodes
- Returns 1 if the has children. Otherwise 0 is returned.
-
parentNode ?objVar?
- Returns the parent node.
- childNodes
- Returns a list of direct children node objects.
- childNodesLive
- Returns a "live" nodeList object of the child nodes of
the node in the sense of the DOM recommendation. This nodeList object is
"live" in the sense that, for instance, changes to the children of
the node object that it was created from are immediately reflected in the nodes
returned by the NodeList accessors; it is not a static snapshot of the content
of the node. The both accessors know by the nodeList object are "item
<index>", which returns the indexth item in the collection, and
"length", which returns the number of nodes in the list.
-
firstChild ?objVar?
- Returns the first child as a node object.
-
lastChild ?objVar?
- Returns the last child as a node object.
-
nextSibling ?objVar?
- Returns the next sibling relativ to the current node as a node
object.
-
previousSibling ?objVar?
- Returns the next sibling relativ to the current node as a node
object.
-
getElementsByTagName name
- Returns a list of all elements in the subtree matching (glob
style) name.
-
getElementsByTagNameNS uri localname
- Returns a list of all elements in the subtree
matching (glob style) localname and having the given namespace
uri.
-
getElementById id
- Returns the node having a id attribute with value
id or the emtpy string, if no node has an id attribute with that value.
-
hasAttribute attributeName
- Returns 1 if the object node contains an attribute with name
attributeName . Otherwise 0 is returned.
-
getAttribute attributeName ?defaultValue?
- Returns the value of the attribute attributeName. If
attribute is not available defaultValue is returned.
-
setAttribute attributeName newValue
?attributeName newValue ...?
- Sets the value for one or more attributes. Every
attributeName is set to the corresponding newValue. If there
isn't an attribute for one or more of the attributeName this will
create that attribute.
-
removeAttribute attributeName
- Removes the attribute attributeName.
-
hasAttributeNS uri localName
- Returns 1 if the object node contains an attribute with the
local name localName within the namespace uri. Otherwise 0 is
returned.
-
getAttributeNS uri localName
?defaultValue?
- Returns the value of the attribute with the local name
localName within the namespace URI uri. If the node dosn't have
that attribute the defaultValue is returned.
-
setAttributeNS uri qualifiedName newValue
?uri qualifiedName newValue ...?
-
Sets the value for one or more full qualified
attributes. Every attribute qualifiedName with the namespace URI
uri will be set to newValue. This will create a new attribute, if
it wasn't avialble before. If you want to set an attribute within a namespace
you must specify the attribute name with prefix, even if you want to set an
already existing attribute to a new value. While searching, if the attribute
already exists, only the given uri and the localname of the
qualifiedName is used.
$node setAttributeNS "http://some.uri.com/wow" prefix:attr1 attrValue
If the uri is the empty string and the attribute name hasn't a prefix, this
method has the same effect as the method setAttribute.
$node setAttributeNS "" attri "some Value"
XML namespace nodes are not in any namespace. Set them this way:
$node setAttributeNS "" xmlns:myprefix "myNamespaceURI"
$node setAttributeNS "" xmlns "newDefaultNamespace"
If your qualifiedName has the prefix "xml" and you give the empty
string as uri, the namespace of the attribute defaults to
"http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", as the DOM 2 recommendation
requests. With the exceptions of the special prefixes "xmlns" and "xml" you
always must provide a non emtpy uri, if your qualifiedName has a
prefix.
-
removeAttributeNS uri localName
- Removes the attribute with the local name localName within
the namespace uri.
-
attributes ?attributeNamePattern?
- Returns all attributes matching the attributeNamePattern.
If attributeNamePattern isn't given all attributes are returned as a Tcl
list.
-
appendChild newChild
- Append newChild to the end of the child list of the
node.
-
insertBefore newChild refChild
- Insert newChild before the refChild into the list of
children of node. If refChild is the empty string, insert
newChild at the end of the child nodes list of that node.
-
replaceChild newChild oldChild
- Replace newChild with oldChild in list of children
of that node. oldChild will be part of the document fragment list after this
operation.
-
removeChild child
- Removes child from the list of children of that node
child will be part of the document fragment list after this
operation. It is not physically deleted.
- delete
- Deletes the given node and its complete child tree
and frees the complete internal memory. The affected nodes are not accessible
through the document fragment list.
-
cloneNode ?-deep?
- Clones this node and adds the new create node into the document
fragment list. If the -deep option is specified, all descendant nodes
are also cloned.
-
ownerDocument ?domObjVar?
- Returns the document object of the document this node belongs
to.
-
find attrName attrVal
?objVar?
- Finds the node with the attribute name attrName, and
attribute value attrVal in the subtree starting the current node.
-
child number|all type
attrName attrValue
- (XPointer) child
-
descendant number|all type
attrName attrValue
- (XPointer) descendant
-
ancestor number|all type
attrName attrValue
- (XPointer) ancestor
-
fsibling number|all type
attrName attrValue
- (XPointer) fsibling
-
psibling number|all type
attrName attrValue
- (XPointer) psibling
-
root objVar
- (XPointer) root
- text
- Returns all text node children of that current node combined,
i.e. appended into one string.
- target
- For a processing instruction node the target part is returned.
Otherwise an error is generated.
- data
- For a processing instruction node the data part is returned. For
a text node, comment node or cdata section node the value is returned.
Otherwise an error is generated.
- prefix
- Returns the namespace prefix.
- namespaceURI
- Returns the namespace URI.
- localName
- Returns the localName from the tag name of the given node.
-
selectNodes ?-namespaces prefixUriList? ?-cache <boolean>? xpathQuery ?typeVar?
-
Returns the result of applying the XPath query
xpathQuery to the subtree. This can be a
string/value, a list of strings, a list of nodes or a list
of attribute name / value pairs. If typeVar is given
the result type name is stored into that variable (empty,
bool, number, string, nodes, attrnodes or mixed).
The argument xpathQuery has to be a valid XPath
expression. However, there is one exception to that rule. Tcl variable
names can appear in the XPath statement at any position where it is
legal according to the rules of the XPath syntax to put an XPath
variable. The value of the variable is substituted for the variable
name. Ignoring the syntax rules of XPath the Tcl variable name may be
any legal Tcl var name: local variables, global variables, array
entries and so on.
The option -namespaces expects a tcl list with prefix /
namespace pairs as argument. If this option is not given, then any
namespace prefix within the xpath expression will be first resolved
against the list of prefix / namespace pairs set with the
selectNodesNamespaces method for the document, the node belongs to. If
this fails, then the namespace definitions in scope of the context
node will be used to resolve the prefix. If this option is given, any
namespace prefix within the xpath expression will be first resolved
against that given list (and ignoring the document global prefix /
namespace list). If the list bind the same prefix to different
namespaces, then the first binding will win. If this fails, then the
namespace definitions in scope of the context node will be used to
resolve the prefix, as usual.
If the -cache option is used with a true value, then the
xpathQuery will be looked up in a document specific cache. If the query
is found, then the stored pre-compiled query will be used. If the
query isn't found, it will be pre-compiled and stored in the cache,
for use in further calls. Please notice, that the xpathQuery as given as
string is used as key for the cache. This means, that equal XPath
expressions, which differ only in white space are treated as
different cache entries. Special care is needed, if the XPath
expression includes namespace prefixes. During pre-compilation, the
prefixes will be resolved first to the prefix / namespace pairs of
the -namespaces option, if given, and to the namespaces
in scope of the context node at pre-compilation time. If the XPath
is found in the cache, neither the -namespaces option nor
the namespaces in scope of the context node will be taken in
account but the already resolved (stored) namespaces will be used
for the query.
Examples:
set paragraphNodes [$node selectNodes {chapter[3]//para[@type='warning' or @type='error'} ]
foreach paragraph $paragraphNodes {
lappend values [$paragraph selectNodes attribute::type]
}
set doc [dom parse {<doc xmlns="http://www.defaultnamespace.org"><child/></doc>}]
set root [$doc documentElement]
set childNodes [$root selectNodes -namespaces {default http://www.defaultnamespace.org} default:child]
- getLine
- Returns the line number of that node in the orignal parsed
XML.
- getColumn
- Returns the column number of that node in the orignal parsed
XML.
- asList
- Returns the DOM substree starting form the current node as a
nested Tcl list.
-
asXML ?-indent none/1..8?
?-channel channelId? ?-escapeNonASCII??-escapeAllQuot?
- Returns the DOM substree starting from the current node
as the root node of the result as an (optional indented) XML string or
sends the output directly to the given channelId. If the option
-escapeNonASCII is given, every non 7 bit ASCII character in
attribute values or element PCDATA content will be escaped as
character reference in decimal representation. If the option
-escapeAllQuot is given, quotation marks will be escaped with
" even in text content of elements.
-
asHTML ?-channel channelId?
?-escapeNonASCII? ?-htmlEntities?
- Returns the DOM substree starting from the current node as the
root node of the result serialized acording to HTML rules (HTML elements are
recognized regardless of case, without end tags for emtpy HTML elements etc.),
as string or sends the output directly to the given channelId. If the option
-escapeNonASCII is given, every non 7 bit ASCII character in attribute
values or element PCDATA content will be escaped as character reference in
decimal representation. If the option -htmlEntities is given, a
character is outputed using a HTML 4.01 character entity reference, if one is
defined for it.
- asText
- For ELEMENT_NODEs, the asText method outputs
the string-value of every text node descendant of node in document
order without any escaping. For every other node type, this method outputs the
the XPath string value of that node.
-
appendFromList list
- Parses list , creates an according DOM subtree and
appends this subtree to the current node.
-
appendFromScript tclScript
- Appends the nodes created in the tclScript by
Tcl functions, which have been built using dom createNodeCmd, to the
given node.
-
insertBeforeFromScript tclScript refChild
- Inserts the nodes created in the tclScript by
Tcl functions, which have been built using dom createNodeCmd, before the
refChild into to the list of children of node. If refChild is
the empty string, the new nodes will be appended.
-
appendXML XMLstring
- Parses XMLstring, creates an according DOM subtree and
appends this subtree to the current node.
-
simpleTranslate outputVar
specifications
- Translate the subtree starting at the object node according to
the specifications in specifications and outputs the result in the
variable outputVar . The translation is very similar to Cost Simple
mode.
- toXPath
- Returns an XPath, which exactly addresses the given
node in its document. This XPath is only valid as there are no changes to DOM
tree made later one.
- getBaseURI
- Returns the baseURI of the node. This method is deprecated in
favor of the baseURI method.
- baseURI ?URI?
- Returns the present baseURI of the node. If the optional
argument URI is given, sets the base URI of the node and of all of its child
nodes out of the same enitity as node to the given URI.
-
disableOutputEscaping ?boolean?
- This method works only for text nodes; for every other nodes it
returns error. Without the optional argument it returns, if disabling output
escaping is on. The return value 0 means, the characters of the text node will
be escaped, to generate valid XML, if serialized. This is the default for
every parsed or created text node (with the exception of that text nodes in a
result tree of an XSLT transformation, for which disabling output escaping was
requested explicitely in the stylesheet). The return value 1 means, that output
escaping is disabled for this text node. If such a text node is serialized
(with asXML or asHTML), it is literarily written, without escaping of the
special XML characters. If the optional boolean value boolean is given,
the flag is set accordingly. You should not set this flag to 1, until you
really know, what you do.
-
precedes refnode
- Compares the relative order of the node and refnode. Both
nodes must be part of the same documents and not out of the fragment list of
the document. Returns true, if node is in document order (in the sense of the
XPath 1.0 recommendation) before refnode and false otherwise.
-
normalize ?-forXPath?
- Puts all Text nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath
this Node into a "normal" form where only structure (e.g., elements,
comments, processing instructions and CDATA
sections) separates Text nodes, i.e., there
are neither adjacent Text nodes nor empty Text nodes. If the option
-forXPath is given, all CDATA sections in the nodes are
converted to text nodes, as a first step before the
normalization.
-
xslt ?-parameters
parameterList? ?-ignoreUndeclaredParameters?
?-xsltmessagecmd script? stylesheet ?outputVar?
- Applies an XSLT transformation on the document using the XSLT
stylesheet (given as domDoc). Returns a document object containing the
result document of that transformation and stores it in the optional
outputVar.
The optional -parameters option sets top level
<xsl:param> to string values. The parameterList has to be a tcl
list consisting of parameter name and value pairs.
If the option -ignoreUndeclaredParameters is given, then parameter
names in the parameterList given to the -parameters options that
are not declared as top-level parameters in the stylesheet are silently
ignored. Without this option, an error is raised, if the user tries to set a
top-level parameter, which is not declared in the stylesheet.
The -xsltmessagecmd option sets a callback for xslt:message elements
in the stylesheet. The actual command consists of the script, given as argument
to the option, appended with the XML Fragment from instantiating the
xsl:message element content as string (as if the XPath string() function would
have been applied to the XML Fragment) and a flag, which indicates, if the
xsl:message has an attribute "terminate" with the value "yes".
- @attrName
- Returns the value of the attribute attrName. Short cut
for getAttribute.
Otherwise, if an unknown method name is given, the command with the same
name as the given method within the namespace ::dom::domNode is tried to
be executed. This allows quick method additions on Tcl level.
dom, domDoc
XML, DOM, document, node, parsing