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<h1 class="faldoc_title">Module MXLM </h1>
<p class="faldoc_brief">Minimal XML support. </p>
<p class="faldoc_text"><p class="faldoc_text">This module is a very simple, fast and powerful XML parser and generator. It's not designed to be DOM compliant; W3C DOM compliancy requires some constraints that slows down the implementation and burden the interface. We'll provide a DOM compliant XML parser module in future, but for now we thought that a minimal, efficient and effective interface to handle XML documents was more important (and more helpful for our users) than compliancy with standard interfaces. </p>
<p class="faldoc_text">In this version, the module has one important limitation: it is not able to self-detect the encoding of the XML document. It must be fed with a stream already instructed to use the proper encoding. Self-detection of document encoding will be added in the next release. </p>
<p class="faldoc_text">MXML has also two major design limitations: it doesn't handle XML namespaces and it doesn't provide schema validation. This module is meant to be a very simple and slim interface to XML documents, and those features are rarely, if ever, needed in the application domain which this module is aimed to cover. </p>
<p class="faldoc_note"><span class="faldoc_notetype">Note:</span> In case of need, it is possible to set namespaced node name by including ":" in their definition. Just, MXML doesn't provide a separate and specific management of namespaces, while it allows to define and maitnain namespaces at application level. </p>
<p class="faldoc_text">Apart from this limitations, the support for XML files is complete and features as advanced search patterns, node retrival through XML paths, and comment node management are provided. </p>
<p class="faldoc_text">To access the functionalities of this module, load it with the instruction </p>
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load mxml
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<tr><td class="faldoc_funcname"><a href="./class_MXMLDocument.html">MXMLDocument</a></td><td class="faldoc_funcbrief">Encapsulates a complete XML document. </td></tr>
<tr><td class="faldoc_funcname"><a href="./class_MXMLError.html">MXMLError</a></td><td class="faldoc_funcbrief">Error raised by the MXML module in case of problems. </td></tr>
<tr><td class="faldoc_funcname"><a href="./class_MXMLNode.html">MXMLNode</a></td><td class="faldoc_funcbrief">Minimal entity of the XML document. </td></tr>
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<h2 class="faldoc_title">Enumerations</h2>
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<tr><td class="faldoc_funcname"><a href="./enum_MXMLErrorCode.html">MXMLErrorCode</a></td><td class="faldoc_funcbrief">Enumeartion listing the possible numeric error codes raised by MXML. </td></tr>
<tr><td class="faldoc_funcname"><a href="./enum_MXMLStyle.html">MXMLStyle</a></td><td class="faldoc_funcbrief">Document serialization options. </td></tr>
<tr><td class="faldoc_funcname"><a href="./enum_MXMLType.html">MXMLType</a></td><td class="faldoc_funcbrief">Node types. </td></tr>
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