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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<class name="XMLParser" inherits="Reference" category="Core" version="3.0.alpha.custom_build">
+ <brief_description>
+ Low-level class for creating parsers for XML files.
+ </brief_description>
+ <description>
+ This class can serve as base to make custom XML parsers. Since XML is a very flexible standard, this interface is low level so it can be applied to any possible schema.
+ </description>
+ <tutorials>
+ </tutorials>
+ <demos>
+ </demos>
+ <methods>
+ <method name="get_attribute_count" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="int">
+ </return>
+ <description>
+ Get the amount of attributes in the current element.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="get_attribute_name" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="String">
+ </return>
+ <argument index="0" name="idx" type="int">
+ </argument>
+ <description>
+ Get the name of the attribute specified by the index in [code]idx[/code] argument.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="get_attribute_value" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="String">
+ </return>
+ <argument index="0" name="idx" type="int">
+ </argument>
+ <description>
+ Get the value of the attribute specified by the index in [code]idx[/code] argument.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="get_current_line" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="int">
+ </return>
+ <description>
+ Get the current line in the parsed file (currently not implemented).
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="get_named_attribute_value" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="String">
+ </return>
+ <argument index="0" name="name" type="String">
+ </argument>
+ <description>
+ Get the value of a certain attribute of the current element by name. This will raise an error if the element has no such attribute.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="get_named_attribute_value_safe" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="String">
+ </return>
+ <argument index="0" name="name" type="String">
+ </argument>
+ <description>
+ Get the value of a certain attribute of the current element by name. This will return an empty [String] if the attribute is not found.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="get_node_data" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="String">
+ </return>
+ <description>
+ Get the contents of a text node. This will raise an error in any other type of node.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="get_node_name" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="String">
+ </return>
+ <description>
+ Get the name of the current element node. This will raise an error if the current node type is not [code]NODE_ELEMENT[/code] nor [code]NODE_ELEMENT_END[/code]
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="get_node_offset" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="int">
+ </return>
+ <description>
+ Get the byte offset of the current node since the beginning of the file or buffer.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="get_node_type">
+ <return type="int" enum="XMLParser.NodeType">
+ </return>
+ <description>
+ Get the type of the current node. Compare with [code]NODE_*[/code] constants.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="has_attribute" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="bool">
+ </return>
+ <argument index="0" name="name" type="String">
+ </argument>
+ <description>
+ Check whether or not the current element has a certain attribute.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="is_empty" qualifiers="const">
+ <return type="bool">
+ </return>
+ <description>
+ Check whether the current element is empty (this only works for completely empty tags, e.g. &lt;element \&gt;).
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="open">
+ <return type="int" enum="Error">
+ </return>
+ <argument index="0" name="file" type="String">
+ </argument>
+ <description>
+ Open a XML file for parsing. This returns an error code.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="open_buffer">
+ <return type="int" enum="Error">
+ </return>
+ <argument index="0" name="buffer" type="PoolByteArray">
+ </argument>
+ <description>
+ Open a XML raw buffer for parsing. This returns an error code.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="read">
+ <return type="int" enum="Error">
+ </return>
+ <description>
+ Read the next node of the file. This returns an error code.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="seek">
+ <return type="int" enum="Error">
+ </return>
+ <argument index="0" name="pos" type="int">
+ </argument>
+ <description>
+ Move the buffer cursor to a certain offset (since the beginning) and read the next node there. This returns an error code.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ <method name="skip_section">
+ <return type="void">
+ </return>
+ <description>
+ Skips the current section. If the node contains other elements, they will be ignored and the cursor will go to the closing of the current element.
+ </description>
+ </method>
+ </methods>
+ <constants>
+ <constant name="NODE_NONE" value="0">
+ There's no node (no file or buffer opened)
+ </constant>
+ <constant name="NODE_ELEMENT" value="1">
+ Element (tag)
+ </constant>
+ <constant name="NODE_ELEMENT_END" value="2">
+ End of element
+ </constant>
+ <constant name="NODE_TEXT" value="3">
+ Text node
+ </constant>
+ <constant name="NODE_COMMENT" value="4">
+ Comment node
+ </constant>
+ <constant name="NODE_CDATA" value="5">
+ CDATA content
+ </constant>
+ <constant name="NODE_UNKNOWN" value="6">
+ Unknown node
+ </constant>
+ </constants>
+</class>