Coconut XML Framework Documentation

Introduction

This document describes about Coconut XML Framework produced by Steel Wheels Project. Coconut XML Framework is used for XML processing based on libxml.

Copyright

This software is distributed under GNU Lesser General Public License v2.

Target System

• OS: Mac OS X
• IDE: Xcode
• Lang: ANSI-C

Required software

• Coconut Framework
• libxml2 : XML C parser and Toolkit. (This is installed by every Mac OS X system).

SCM Repository

See Git repository on SourceForge.

Specification

Memory Management

Modify malloc/realloc/free functions for libxml2. The XML document, node, attribute can have additional information defined by the user. It called XML Info in this framework.

Implementation

Memory Management

• CNXMLInit.h : Initialize libxml2. Hook the xmlMalloc to operate additional information for libxml2 objects

Object

• CNXMLObject (CNXMLObject.h) : Object with XML coding </ul

Pattern

• CNXMLNodeVisitor (CNXMLNodeVisitor.h) : Visitor pattern for XML node

Pattern

• CNXMLPrettyPrintNode() (CNXMLPrettyPrinter.h) : Control spaces for pretty printing of XML document

Utility functions

• CNXMLNodeUtil.h : Operate XML node
• CNXMLPropUtil.h : Operate XML property
• CNXMLDecodeError.h : Define decode error

Related Links

• Steel Wheels Project Main Page
• Steel Wheels Project Blog