domNode(n)domNode(n)______________________________________________________________________________NAMEdomNode - Manipulates an instance of a DOM node object
SYNOPSIS
$nodeObject method arg arg ...
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DESCRIPTION
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) Ver‐
sion 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: ELE‐
MENT_NODE, TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE or PRO‐
CESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE.
nodeName
Returns the node name of that node object. This is the element
(tag) name for element nodes (type ELEMENT_NODE), the process‐
ing-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, PRO‐
CESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE or CDATA_SECTION_NODE). Otherwise it is
empty. If the node is a TEXT_NODE, COMMENT_NODE or PROCESS‐
ING_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 names‐
pace 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 setAt‐
tribute.
$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 recommenda‐
tion 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 oldChild with newChild in the list of children of that
node. The oldChild node 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. How‐
ever, 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 vari‐
able 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 / names‐
pace 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 defi‐
nitions 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 xpath‐
Query 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, nei‐
ther 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 refer‐
ence, 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 argu‐
ment 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 dis‐
abling 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 cre‐
ated text node (with the exception of that text nodes in a
result tree of an XSLT transformation, for which disabling out‐
put 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 spe‐
cial 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., ele‐
ments, 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 contain‐
ing 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 parame‐
ter 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 ele‐
ments 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.
SEE ALSO
dom, domDoc
KEYWORDS
XML, DOM, document, node, parsing
TcldomNode(n)
