Class: REXML::Source

Class REXML::Source |
In: | rexml/source.rb
Parent: | Object

A Source can be searched for patterns, and wraps buffers and other objects and provides consumption of text

Methods

asc check_encoding current_line empty? encoding= encoding_val match new scan unile utf16 utf8 utf8_enc val_encoding

Attributes

:buffer | [R] | The current buffer (what we're going to read next)
:encoding | [R] |
:line | [R] | The line number of the last consumed text

Public Class methods

new(arg)

Constructor @param arg must be a String, and should be a valid XML document

encoding_val( enc )

val_encoding( enc )

Public Instance methods

encoding=(enc)

scan(pattern, consume=false)

Scans the source for a given pattern. Note, that this is not your usual scan() method. For one thing, the pattern argument has some requirements; for another, the source can be consumed. You can easily confuse this method. Originally, the patterns were easier to construct and this method more robust, because this method generated search regexes on the fly; however, this was computationally expensive and slowed down the entire REXML package considerably, since this is by far the most commonly called method. @param pattern must be a Regexp, and must be in the form of /^\s*(#{your pattern, with no groups})(.*)/. The first group will be returned; the second group is used if the consume flag is set. @param consume if true, the pattern returned will be consumed, leaving everything after it in the Source. @return the pattern, if found, or nil if the Source is empty or the pattern is not found.

match(pattern, consume=false)

empty?()

@return true if the Source is exhausted

current_line()

@return the current line in the source

check_encoding(str)

Taken from code contributed by Ernest Ellingson <erne@powernav.com>

utf8_enc(str)

Taken from code contributed by Ernest Ellingson <erne@powernav.com>

asc(str)

utf16(str)

unile(str)

utf8(str)