The QXmlInputSource class provides the input data for the QXmlReader subclasses. More...

Public Methods
	QXmlInputSource ()

	QXmlInputSource (QIODevice *device)

virtual	~QXmlInputSource ()

virtual QString	data () const

virtual void	fetchData ()

virtual QChar	next ()

virtual void	reset ()

virtual void	setData (const QByteArray &data)

virtual void	setData (const QString &data)

Protected Methods
virtual QString	fromRawData (const QByteArray &data, bool beginning=false)

Detailed Description

The QXmlInputSource class provides the input data for the QXmlReader subclasses.

All subclasses of QXmlReader read the input XML document from this class.

This class recognizes the encoding of the data by reading the encoding declaration in the XML file if it finds one, and reading the data using the corresponding encoding. If it does not find an encoding declaration, then it assumes that the data is either in UTF-8 or UTF-16, depending on whether it can find a byte-order mark.

There are two ways to populate the input source with data: you can construct it with a QIODevice* so that the input source reads the data from that device. Or you can set the data explicitly with one of the setData() functions.

Usually you either construct a QXmlInputSource that works on a QIODevice* or you construct an empty QXmlInputSource and set the data with setData(). There are only rare occasions where you would want to mix both methods.

The QXmlReader subclasses use the next() function to read the input character by character. If you want to start from the beginning again, use reset().

The functions data() and fetchData() are useful if you want to do something with the data other than parsing, e.g. displaying the raw XML file. The benefit of using the QXmlInputClass in such cases is that it tries to use the correct encoding.

See also: QXmlReader, QXmlSimpleReader

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

QXmlInputSource::QXmlInputSource ( )

Constructs an input source which contains no data.

See also: setData()

QXmlInputSource::QXmlInputSource ( QIODevice * device )

Constructs an input source and gets the data from device. If device is not open, it is opened in read-only mode. If device is a nullptr or it is not possible to read from the device, the input source will contain no data.

See also: setData(), fetchData(), QIODevice

QXmlInputSource::~QXmlInputSource ( )

virtual

Destructor.

Method Documentation

QString QXmlInputSource::data ( ) const

virtual

Returns the data the input source contains or an empty string if the input source does not contain any data.

See also: setData(), QXmlInputSource(), fetchData()

void QXmlInputSource::fetchData ( )

virtual

This function reads more data from the device that was set during construction. If the input source already contained data, this function deletes that data first.

This object contains no data after a call to this function if the object was constructed without a device to read data from or if this function was not able to get more data from the device.

There are two occasions where a fetch is done implicitly by another function call: during construction (so that the object starts out with some initial data where available), and during a call to next() (if the data had run out).

You do not normally need to use this function if you use next().

See also: data(), next(), QXmlInputSource()

QString QXmlInputSource::fromRawData	(	const QByteArray &	data,
		bool	beginning = `false`
	)

protectedvirtual

Reads the XML file from data and tries to recognize the encoding. It converts the raw data into a QString and returns it. The method attempts to get the correct encoding for the XML file.

If beginning is true, this method assumes the data starts at the beginning of a new XML document and looks for an encoding declaration. If beginning is false, it converts the raw data using the encoding determined from prior calls.

QChar QXmlInputSource::next ( )

virtual

Returns the next character of the input source. If this function reaches the end of available data, it returns QXmlInputSource::EndOfData. If you call next() after that, it tries to fetch more data by calling fetchData(). If the fetchData() call results in new data, this function returns the first character of that data, otherwise it returns QXmlInputSource::EndOfDocument.

Readers, such as QXmlSimpleReader, will assume that the end of the XML document has been reached if the this function returns QXmlInputSource::EndOfDocument, and will check that the supplied input is well-formed. Therefore, when reimplementing this function, it is important to ensure that this behavior is duplicated.

See also: reset(), fetchData(), QXmlSimpleReader::parse(), QXmlSimpleReader::parseContinue()

void QXmlInputSource::reset ( )

virtual

This function sets the position used by next() to the beginning of the data returned by data(). This is useful if you want to use the input source for more than one parse.

Note: In the case that the underlying data source is a QIODevice, the current position in the device is not automatically set to the start of input. Call QIODevice::seek(0) on the device to do this.

See also: next()

void QXmlInputSource::setData ( const QByteArray & data )

virtual

The given data is passed through the correct text codec, before it is set.

void QXmlInputSource::setData ( const QString & data )

virtual

Sets the data of the input source to data. If the input source already contains data, this function deletes that data first.

See also: data()

Public Methods

Protected Methods

Detailed Description

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Method Documentation