diff -r 000000000000 -r 044383f39525 imgtools/buildrom/tools/GenericParser.pm
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+++ b/imgtools/buildrom/tools/GenericParser.pm	Tue Oct 27 16:36:35 2009 +0000
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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+# All rights reserved.
+# This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+# under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+# at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+#
+# Initial Contributors:
+# Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+#
+# Contributors:
+#
+# Description: 
+# Provides generic methods retrieving data from the XML file.
+# Internally uses DOM API. Uses XML Checker to validate the XML.
+#
+
+package genericparser;
+require Exporter;
+@ISA=qw(Exporter);
+
+@EXPORT=qw(
+
+	getRootElement
+	getAttrValue
+	getElementValue
+	getSiblingElements
+	getNodeAttributes
+	getChildElements
+	getNodeFromTree
+	getElementsTagName
+	getElementName
+);
+
+use strict;
+use XML::DOM;
+use XML::DOM::ValParser;#XML Validator
+
+my $validxml; # XML validation status
+$XML::Checker::FAIL = \&failhandler; # User defined fail handler
+
+# User defined fail handler for the XML checker
+sub failhandler
+{
+	my ($code, $msg, @context) = @_;
+	print "ERROR: $msg\n";
+	$validxml = 0;
+}
+
+#Returns the root element of the XML file
+sub getRootElement() {
+	my ($xmlfile) = shift;
+	die "ERROR: XML File does not exists in the specified path $xmlfile\n" if (!-f $xmlfile);
+	my $DOMParser = new XML::DOM::Parser(); #DOM Parser
+	#Set the SGML_SEARCH_PATH to the path where the DTD files are found ($ENV{EPOCROOT}epoc32\\tools).
+	XML::Checker::Parser::set_sgml_search_path ("$ENV{EPOCROOT}epoc32/tools");
+	my $xmlValidator = new XML::Checker::Parser();#Validates XML against Schema
+	$validxml = 1;
+	$xmlValidator->parsefile($xmlfile);
+	
+	if($validxml)
+	{
+		my $document = $DOMParser->parsefile($xmlfile);#Parse XML file
+		my $root = $document->getDocumentElement();
+		return $root;
+	}
+	
+	return 0;
+}
+
+#Returns the attribute value of the element
+#Optional argument strictcaseflg does not convert the case of the attribute value
+sub getAttrValue(){
+	my ($elementname, $name, $strictcaseflg) = @_;
+	my $attrVal =  $elementname->getAttribute($name) ;
+	if ($attrVal eq "") {
+  		return undef;
+  	}
+	if(!defined $strictcaseflg) {
+		return lc($attrVal);
+	}
+	else {
+		return $attrVal;
+	}
+}
+
+#Returns the element value
+#Optional argument strictcaseflg does not convert the case of the element value
+sub getElementValue(){
+	my ($elementname) = shift;
+	my ($strictcaseflg)=shift;
+	my $elementVal;
+	if( !$elementname->hasChildNodes() )
+	{
+		return undef;
+	}
+	if ($elementname->getNodeType == XML::DOM::ELEMENT_NODE) {
+		$elementVal =  $elementname->getFirstChild()->getData ;
+	}
+	
+	if(!defined $strictcaseflg) {
+		return lc($elementVal);
+	}
+	else {
+		return $elementVal;
+	}
+}
+
+#Returns the sibling elements for the given node
+sub getSiblingElements {
+	my $child = shift;
+	my @nodeList;
+	while($child) {
+		if($child->getNodeType eq XML::DOM::ELEMENT_NODE) {
+			@nodeList=(@nodeList,$child); 
+		} 
+		$child = $child->getNextSibling;
+	}
+	return 	@nodeList;
+}
+
+#Returns the attribute list reference for the given node
+sub getNodeAttributes() {
+	my $node = shift;
+	my $attlist;
+	if ($node->getNodeType() eq XML::DOM::ELEMENT_NODE)	{
+		$attlist = $node->getAttributes;
+	}
+	return $attlist;
+}
+
+#Returns the children for the given node element
+sub getChildElements {
+	my $child = shift;
+	my @childList;
+	my @newChildList;	
+		
+	@childList=$child->getChildNodes;
+	foreach my $node (@childList) {
+		if($node->getNodeType eq XML::DOM::ELEMENT_NODE) {
+			@newChildList=(@newChildList,$node); 
+		}
+	}
+	return 	@newChildList;
+}
+
+#Returns the list of nodes that matches the specified node tree
+sub getNodeFromTree(){
+
+	my @resultNodes;
+	my ($element, @nodeNames) = @_;
+	my $nodeName;
+	my @children = $element->getChildNodes();
+
+	foreach my $child (@children) {
+		if ($child->getNodeType eq XML::DOM::ELEMENT_NODE) {
+			if (($child->getNodeName) eq $nodeNames[0]) {
+				if ($#nodeNames) {
+					$nodeName = shift @nodeNames;#Pop unmatched node
+					push @resultNodes,&getNodeFromTree($child, @nodeNames);
+					unshift @nodeNames, $nodeName;#Put back the nodes to proper level
+				}
+				else {
+					push @resultNodes,$child;#Push matched node to the destination
+				}
+				
+			}		
+
+		}
+
+	}
+	
+	return @resultNodes;
+}
+
+#Returns the list of elements whose node matches with the node name supplied
+sub getElementsTagName{
+	my ($node, $name) = @_;
+	if ($node->getNodeType eq XML::DOM::ELEMENT_NODE) {
+		my @taggedElements = $node->getElementsByTagName($name);
+		return @taggedElements;
+	}
+}
+
+#Returns the element name for the given node
+sub getElementName{
+	my $node = shift;
+	if ($node->getNodeType eq XML::DOM::ELEMENT_NODE) {
+		return lc($node->getNodeName);
+	}
+}
+
+1;
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