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+xml-rs, an XML library for Rust
+===============================
+
+[![Build Status][build-status-img]](https://github.com/netvl/xml-rs/actions?query=workflow%3ACI)
+[![crates.io][crates-io-img]](https://crates.io/crates/xml-rs)
+[![docs][docs-img]](https://docs.rs/xml-rs/)
+
+[Documentation](https://docs.rs/xml-rs/)
+
+ [build-status-img]: https://img.shields.io/github/workflow/status/netvl/xml-rs/CI/master?style=flat-square
+ [crates-io-img]: https://img.shields.io/crates/v/xml-rs.svg?style=flat-square
+ [docs-img]: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest%20release-6495ed.svg?style=flat-square
+
+xml-rs is an XML library for [Rust](http://www.rust-lang.org/) programming language.
+It is heavily inspired by Java [Streaming API for XML (StAX)][stax].
+
+ [stax]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StAX
+
+This library currently contains pull parser much like [StAX event reader][stax-reader].
+It provides iterator API, so you can leverage Rust's existing iterators library features.
+
+ [stax-reader]: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/javax/xml/stream/XMLEventReader.html
+
+It also provides a streaming document writer much like [StAX event writer][stax-writer].
+This writer consumes its own set of events, but reader events can be converted to
+writer events easily, and so it is possible to write XML transformation chains in a pretty
+clean manner.
+
+ [stax-writer]: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/javax/xml/stream/XMLEventWriter.html
+
+This parser is mostly full-featured, however, there are limitations:
+* no other encodings but UTF-8 are supported yet, because no stream-based encoding library
+ is available now; when (or if) one will be available, I'll try to make use of it;
+* DTD validation is not supported, `<!DOCTYPE>` declarations are completely ignored; thus no
+ support for custom entities too; internal DTD declarations are likely to cause parsing errors;
+* attribute value normalization is not performed, and end-of-line characters are not normalized too.
+
+Other than that the parser tries to be mostly XML-1.0-compliant.
+
+Writer is also mostly full-featured with the following limitations:
+* no support for encodings other than UTF-8, for the same reason as above;
+* no support for emitting `<!DOCTYPE>` declarations;
+* more validations of input are needed, for example, checking that namespace prefixes are bounded
+ or comments are well-formed.
+
+What is planned (highest priority first, approximately):
+
+0. missing features required by XML standard (e.g. aforementioned normalization and
+ proper DTD parsing);
+1. miscellaneous features of the writer;
+2. parsing into a DOM tree and its serialization back to XML text;
+3. SAX-like callback-based parser (fairly easy to implement over pull parser);
+4. DTD validation;
+5. (let's dream a bit) XML Schema validation.
+
+Building and using
+------------------
+
+xml-rs uses [Cargo](http://crates.io), so just add a dependency section in your project's manifest:
+
+```toml
+[dependencies]
+xml-rs = "0.8"
+```
+
+The package exposes a single crate called `xml`:
+
+```rust
+extern crate xml;
+```
+
+Reading XML documents
+---------------------
+
+`xml::reader::EventReader` requires a `Read` instance to read from. When a proper stream-based encoding
+library is available, it is likely that xml-rs will be switched to use whatever character stream structure
+this library would provide, but currently it is a `Read`.
+
+Using `EventReader` is very straightforward. Just provide a `Read` instance to obtain an iterator
+over events:
+
+```rust,no_run
+extern crate xml;
+
+use std::fs::File;
+use std::io::BufReader;
+
+use xml::reader::{EventReader, XmlEvent};
+
+fn indent(size: usize) -> String {
+ const INDENT: &'static str = " ";
+ (0..size).map(|_| INDENT)
+ .fold(String::with_capacity(size*INDENT.len()), |r, s| r + s)
+}
+
+fn main() {
+ let file = File::open("file.xml").unwrap();
+ let file = BufReader::new(file);
+
+ let parser = EventReader::new(file);
+ let mut depth = 0;
+ for e in parser {
+ match e {
+ Ok(XmlEvent::StartElement { name, .. }) => {
+ println!("{}+{}", indent(depth), name);
+ depth += 1;
+ }
+ Ok(XmlEvent::EndElement { name }) => {
+ depth -= 1;
+ println!("{}-{}", indent(depth), name);
+ }
+ Err(e) => {
+ println!("Error: {}", e);
+ break;
+ }
+ _ => {}
+ }
+ }
+}
+```
+
+`EventReader` implements `IntoIterator` trait, so you can just use it in a `for` loop directly.
+Document parsing can end normally or with an error. Regardless of exact cause, the parsing
+process will be stopped, and iterator will terminate normally.
+
+You can also have finer control over when to pull the next event from the parser using its own
+`next()` method:
+
+```rust,ignore
+match parser.next() {
+ ...
+}
+```
+
+Upon the end of the document or an error the parser will remember that last event and will always
+return it in the result of `next()` call afterwards. If iterator is used, then it will yield
+error or end-of-document event once and will produce `None` afterwards.
+
+It is also possible to tweak parsing process a little using `xml::reader::ParserConfig` structure.
+See its documentation for more information and examples.
+
+You can find a more extensive example of using `EventReader` in `src/analyze.rs`, which is a
+small program (BTW, it is built with `cargo build` and can be run after that) which shows various
+statistics about specified XML document. It can also be used to check for well-formedness of
+XML documents - if a document is not well-formed, this program will exit with an error.
+
+Writing XML documents
+---------------------
+
+xml-rs also provides a streaming writer much like StAX event writer. With it you can write an
+XML document to any `Write` implementor.
+
+```rust,no_run
+extern crate xml;
+
+use std::fs::File;
+use std::io::{self, Write};
+
+use xml::writer::{EventWriter, EmitterConfig, XmlEvent, Result};
+
+fn handle_event<W: Write>(w: &mut EventWriter<W>, line: String) -> Result<()> {
+ let line = line.trim();
+ let event: XmlEvent = if line.starts_with("+") && line.len() > 1 {
+ XmlEvent::start_element(&line[1..]).into()
+ } else if line.starts_with("-") {
+ XmlEvent::end_element().into()
+ } else {
+ XmlEvent::characters(&line).into()
+ };
+ w.write(event)
+}
+
+fn main() {
+ let mut file = File::create("output.xml").unwrap();
+
+ let mut input = io::stdin();
+ let mut output = io::stdout();
+ let mut writer = EmitterConfig::new().perform_indent(true).create_writer(&mut file);
+ loop {
+ print!("> "); output.flush().unwrap();
+ let mut line = String::new();
+ match input.read_line(&mut line) {
+ Ok(0) => break,
+ Ok(_) => match handle_event(&mut writer, line) {
+ Ok(_) => {}
+ Err(e) => panic!("Write error: {}", e)
+ },
+ Err(e) => panic!("Input error: {}", e)
+ }
+ }
+}
+```
+
+The code example above also demonstrates how to create a writer out of its configuration.
+Similar thing also works with `EventReader`.
+
+The library provides an XML event building DSL which helps to construct complex events,
+e.g. ones having namespace definitions. Some examples:
+
+```rust,ignore
+// <a:hello a:param="value" xmlns:a="urn:some:document">
+XmlEvent::start_element("a:hello").attr("a:param", "value").ns("a", "urn:some:document")
+
+// <hello b:config="name" xmlns="urn:default:uri">
+XmlEvent::start_element("hello").attr("b:config", "value").default_ns("urn:defaul:uri")
+
+// <![CDATA[some unescaped text]]>
+XmlEvent::cdata("some unescaped text")
+```
+
+Of course, one can create `XmlEvent` enum variants directly instead of using the builder DSL.
+There are more examples in `xml::writer::XmlEvent` documentation.
+
+The writer has multiple configuration options; see `EmitterConfig` documentation for more
+information.
+
+Other things
+------------
+
+No performance tests or measurements are done. The implementation is rather naive, and no specific
+optimizations are made. Hopefully the library is sufficiently fast to process documents of common size.
+I intend to add benchmarks in future, but not until more important features are added.
+
+Known issues
+------------
+
+All known issues are present on GitHub issue tracker: <http://github.com/netvl/xml-rs/issues>.
+Feel free to post any found problems there.
+
+License
+-------
+
+This library is licensed under MIT license.
+
+---
+Copyright (C) Vladimir Matveev, 2014-2020