| Data::Grove::Visitor - add visitor/callback methods to Data::Grove objects |
Data::Grove::Visitor - add visitor/callback methods to Data::Grove objects
use Data::Grove::Visitor;
@results = $object->accept ($visitor, ...); @results = $object->accept_name ($visitor, ...); @results = $object->children_accept ($visitor, ...); @results = $object->children_accept_name ($visitor, ...);
Data::Grove::Visitor adds visitor methods (callbacks) to Data::Grove
objects. A ``visitor'' is a class (a package) you write that has
methods (subs) corresponding to the objects in the classes being
visited. You use the visitor methods by creating an instance of your
visitor class, and then calling `accept($my_visitor)' on the
top-most object you want to visit, that object will in turn call your
visitor back with `visit_OBJECT', where OBJECT is the type of
object.
There are several forms of `accept'. Simply calling `accept'
calls your package back using the object type of the object you are
visiting. Calling `accept_name' on an element object calls you
back with `visit_name_NAME' where NAME is the tag name of the
element, on all other objects it's as if you called `accept'.
All of the forms of `accept' return a concatenated list of the
result of all `visit' methods.
`children_accept' calls `accept' on each of the children of the
element. This is generally used in element callbacks to recurse down
into the element's children, you don't need to get the element's
contents and call `accept' on each item. `children_accept_name'
does the same but calling `accept_name' on each of the children.
`attr_accept' calls `accept' on each of the objects in the named
attribute.
Refer to the documentation of the classes you are visiting
(XML::Grove, etc.) for the type names (`element', `document',
etc.) of the objects it implements.
The hash keys `Contents' and `Name' are used to indicate objects
with children (for `children_accept') and named objects (for
`accept_name').
These are random ideas that haven't been implemented yet:
visit_SGML_Element') instead of a generic name
(`visit_element'). The idea here would be to try calling
`visit_PACKAGE' with the most specific class first, then try
superclasses, and lastly to try the generic.
Ken MacLeod, ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us
perl(1), Data::Grove
Extensible Markup Language (XML) <http://www.w3c.org/XML>
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