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| <h1>TiXmlHandle Class Reference</h1><!-- doxytag: class="TiXmlHandle" -->A TiXmlHandle is a class that wraps a node pointer with null checks; this is an incredibly useful thing. |
| <a href="#_details">More...</a> |
| <p> |
| <code>#include <<a class="el" href="tinyxml_8h-source.html">tinyxml.h</a>></code> |
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| <a href="classTiXmlHandle-members.html">List of all members.</a><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> |
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| <tr><td colspan="2"><br><h2>Public Member Functions</h2></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="anchor" name="a0"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::TiXmlHandle" ref="a0" args="(TiXmlNode *_node)" --> |
| </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a0">TiXmlHandle</a> (<a class="el" href="classTiXmlNode.html">TiXmlNode</a> *_node)</td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Create a handle from any node (at any depth of the tree.) This can be a null pointer. <br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="anchor" name="a1"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::TiXmlHandle" ref="a1" args="(const TiXmlHandle &ref)" --> |
| </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a1">TiXmlHandle</a> (const <a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> &ref)</td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Copy constructor. <br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="anchor" name="a3"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::FirstChild" ref="a3" args="() const " --> |
| <a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a3">FirstChild</a> () const </td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Return a handle to the first child node. <br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="anchor" name="a4"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::FirstChild" ref="a4" args="(const char *value) const " --> |
| <a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a4">FirstChild</a> (const char *value) const </td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Return a handle to the first child node with the given name. <br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="anchor" name="a5"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::FirstChildElement" ref="a5" args="() const " --> |
| <a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a5">FirstChildElement</a> () const </td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Return a handle to the first child element. <br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="anchor" name="a6"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::FirstChildElement" ref="a6" args="(const char *value) const " --> |
| <a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a6">FirstChildElement</a> (const char *value) const </td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Return a handle to the first child element with the given name. <br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a7">Child</a> (const char *value, int index) const </td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Return a handle to the "index" child with the given name. <a href="#a7"></a><br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a8">Child</a> (int index) const </td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Return a handle to the "index" child. <a href="#a8"></a><br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a9">ChildElement</a> (const char *value, int index) const </td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Return a handle to the "index" child element with the given name. <a href="#a9"></a><br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a10">ChildElement</a> (int index) const </td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Return a handle to the "index" child element. <a href="#a10"></a><br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="anchor" name="a15"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::Node" ref="a15" args="() const " --> |
| <a class="el" href="classTiXmlNode.html">TiXmlNode</a> * </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a15">Node</a> () const </td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Return the handle as a <a class="el" href="classTiXmlNode.html">TiXmlNode</a>. This may return null. <br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="anchor" name="a16"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::Element" ref="a16" args="() const " --> |
| <a class="el" href="classTiXmlElement.html">TiXmlElement</a> * </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a16">Element</a> () const </td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Return the handle as a <a class="el" href="classTiXmlElement.html">TiXmlElement</a>. This may return null. <br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="anchor" name="a17"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::Text" ref="a17" args="() const " --> |
| <a class="el" href="classTiXmlText.html">TiXmlText</a> * </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a17">Text</a> () const </td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Return the handle as a <a class="el" href="classTiXmlText.html">TiXmlText</a>. This may return null. <br></td></tr> |
| <tr><td class="memItemLeft" nowrap align="right" valign="top"><a class="anchor" name="a18"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::Unknown" ref="a18" args="() const " --> |
| <a class="el" href="classTiXmlUnknown.html">TiXmlUnknown</a> * </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html#a18">Unknown</a> () const </td></tr> |
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| <tr><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Return the handle as a <a class="el" href="classTiXmlUnknown.html">TiXmlUnknown</a>. This may return null;. <br></td></tr> |
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| <hr><a name="_details"></a><h2>Detailed Description</h2> |
| A TiXmlHandle is a class that wraps a node pointer with null checks; this is an incredibly useful thing. |
| <p> |
| Note that TiXmlHandle is not part of the TinyXml DOM structure. It is a separate utility class.<p> |
| Take an example: <div class="fragment"><pre class="fragment"> <Document> |
| <Element attributeA = "valueA"> |
| <Child attributeB = "value1" /> |
| <Child attributeB = "value2" /> |
| </Element> |
| <Document> |
| </pre></div><p> |
| Assuming you want the value of "attributeB" in the 2nd "Child" element, it's very easy to write a *lot* of code that looks like:<p> |
| <div class="fragment"><pre class="fragment"> TiXmlElement* root = document.FirstChildElement( "Document" ); |
| if ( root ) |
| { |
| TiXmlElement* element = root->FirstChildElement( "Element" ); |
| if ( element ) |
| { |
| TiXmlElement* child = element->FirstChildElement( "Child" ); |
| if ( child ) |
| { |
| TiXmlElement* child2 = child->NextSiblingElement( "Child" ); |
| if ( child2 ) |
| { |
| // Finally do something useful. |
| </pre></div><p> |
| And that doesn't even cover "else" cases. TiXmlHandle addresses the verbosity of such code. A TiXmlHandle checks for null pointers so it is perfectly safe and correct to use:<p> |
| <div class="fragment"><pre class="fragment"> TiXmlHandle docHandle( &document ); |
| TiXmlElement* child2 = docHandle.FirstChild( "Document" ).FirstChild( "Element" ).Child( "Child", 1 ).Element(); |
| if ( child2 ) |
| { |
| // do something useful |
| </pre></div><p> |
| Which is MUCH more concise and useful.<p> |
| It is also safe to copy handles - internally they are nothing more than node pointers. <div class="fragment"><pre class="fragment"> TiXmlHandle handleCopy = handle; |
| </pre></div><p> |
| What they should not be used for is iteration:<p> |
| <div class="fragment"><pre class="fragment"> int i=0; |
| while ( true ) |
| { |
| TiXmlElement* child = docHandle.FirstChild( "Document" ).FirstChild( "Element" ).Child( "Child", i ).Element(); |
| if ( !child ) |
| break; |
| // do something |
| ++i; |
| } |
| </pre></div><p> |
| It seems reasonable, but it is in fact two embedded while loops. The Child method is a linear walk to find the element, so this code would iterate much more than it needs to. Instead, prefer:<p> |
| <div class="fragment"><pre class="fragment"> TiXmlElement* child = docHandle.FirstChild( "Document" ).FirstChild( "Element" ).FirstChild( "Child" ).Element(); |
| |
| for( child; child; child=child->NextSiblingElement() ) |
| { |
| // do something |
| } |
| </pre></div> |
| <p> |
| <hr><h2>Member Function Documentation</h2> |
| <a class="anchor" name="a8"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::Child" ref="a8" args="(int index) const " --><p> |
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| <td class="md" nowrap valign="top"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> TiXmlHandle::Child </td> |
| <td class="md" valign="top">( </td> |
| <td class="md" nowrap valign="top">int </td> |
| <td class="mdname1" valign="top" nowrap> <em>index</em> </td> |
| <td class="md" valign="top"> ) </td> |
| <td class="md" nowrap> const</td> |
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| Return a handle to the "index" child. |
| <p> |
| The first child is 0, the second 1, etc. </td> |
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| </table> |
| <a class="anchor" name="a7"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::Child" ref="a7" args="(const char *value, int index) const " --><p> |
| <table class="mdTable" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> |
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| <td class="mdRow"> |
| <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> |
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| <td class="md" nowrap valign="top"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> TiXmlHandle::Child </td> |
| <td class="md" valign="top">( </td> |
| <td class="md" nowrap valign="top">const char * </td> |
| <td class="mdname" nowrap> <em>value</em>, </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="md" nowrap align="right"></td> |
| <td class="md"></td> |
| <td class="md" nowrap>int </td> |
| <td class="mdname" nowrap> <em>index</em></td> |
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| <td class="md"></td> |
| <td class="md">) </td> |
| <td class="md" colspan="2"> const</td> |
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| Return a handle to the "index" child with the given name. |
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| The first child is 0, the second 1, etc. </td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| <a class="anchor" name="a10"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::ChildElement" ref="a10" args="(int index) const " --><p> |
| <table class="mdTable" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> |
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| <td class="mdRow"> |
| <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> |
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| <td class="md" nowrap valign="top"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> TiXmlHandle::ChildElement </td> |
| <td class="md" valign="top">( </td> |
| <td class="md" nowrap valign="top">int </td> |
| <td class="mdname1" valign="top" nowrap> <em>index</em> </td> |
| <td class="md" valign="top"> ) </td> |
| <td class="md" nowrap> const</td> |
| </tr> |
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| Return a handle to the "index" child element. |
| <p> |
| The first child element is 0, the second 1, etc. Note that only TiXmlElements are indexed: other types are not counted. </td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| <a class="anchor" name="a9"></a><!-- doxytag: member="TiXmlHandle::ChildElement" ref="a9" args="(const char *value, int index) const " --><p> |
| <table class="mdTable" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> |
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| <td class="md" nowrap valign="top"><a class="el" href="classTiXmlHandle.html">TiXmlHandle</a> TiXmlHandle::ChildElement </td> |
| <td class="md" valign="top">( </td> |
| <td class="md" nowrap valign="top">const char * </td> |
| <td class="mdname" nowrap> <em>value</em>, </td> |
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| <td class="md" nowrap align="right"></td> |
| <td class="md"></td> |
| <td class="md" nowrap>int </td> |
| <td class="mdname" nowrap> <em>index</em></td> |
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| <td class="md">) </td> |
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| Return a handle to the "index" child element with the given name. |
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| The first child element is 0, the second 1, etc. Note that only TiXmlElements are indexed: other types are not counted. </td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| <hr>The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:<ul> |
| <li><a class="el" href="tinyxml_8h-source.html">tinyxml.h</a></ul> |
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