Package org.json

Class XMLTokener

  • public class XMLTokener
extends JSONTokener
    The XMLTokener extends the JSONTokener to provide additional methods for the parsing of XML texts.
    Version:
    2015-12-09

    • Constructor Summary

      Constructors 
      Constructor Description
      XMLTokener​(java.io.Reader r)
      Construct an XMLTokener from a Reader.
      XMLTokener​(java.io.Reader r, XMLParserConfiguration configuration)
      Construct an XMLTokener from a Reader and an XMLParserConfiguration.
      XMLTokener​(java.lang.String s)
      Construct an XMLTokener from a string.

    • Field Detail

      • entity

        public static final java.util.HashMap<java.lang.String,​java.lang.Character> entity
        The table of entity values. It initially contains Character values for amp, apos, gt, lt, quot.

    • Constructor Detail

      • XMLTokener

        public XMLTokener​(java.io.Reader r)
        Construct an XMLTokener from a Reader.
        Parameters:
        r - A source reader.

      • XMLTokener

        public XMLTokener​(java.lang.String s)
        Construct an XMLTokener from a string.
        Parameters:
        s - A source string.

      • XMLTokener

        public XMLTokener​(java.io.Reader r,
                  XMLParserConfiguration configuration)
        Construct an XMLTokener from a Reader and an XMLParserConfiguration.
        Parameters:
        r - A source reader.
        configuration - the configuration that can be used to set certain flags

    • Method Detail

      • nextCDATA

        public java.lang.String nextCDATA()
                           throws JSONException
        Get the text in the CDATA block.
        Returns:
        The string up to the ]]>.
        Throws:
        JSONException - If the ]]> is not found.

      • nextContent

        public java.lang.Object nextContent()
                             throws JSONException
        Get the next XML outer token, trimming whitespace. There are two kinds of tokens: the 
        '<'
        character which begins a markup tag, and the content text between markup tags.
        Returns:
        A string, or a 
        '<'
        Character, or null if there is no more source text.
        Throws:
        JSONException - if a called function has an error

      • nextEntity

        public java.lang.Object nextEntity​(char ampersand)
                            throws JSONException
        
 Return the next entity. These entities are translated to Characters:
     &amp;  &apos;  &gt;  &lt;  &quot;.
        Parameters:
        ampersand - An ampersand character.
        Returns:
        A Character or an entity String if the entity is not recognized.
        Throws:
        JSONException - If missing ';' in XML entity.

      • unescapeEntity

        static java.lang.String unescapeEntity​(java.lang.String e)
        Unescape an XML entity encoding;
        Parameters:
        e - entity (only the actual entity value, not the preceding & or ending ;
        Returns:

      • nextMeta

        public java.lang.Object nextMeta()
                          throws JSONException
        
 Returns the next XML meta token. This is used for skipping over <!...>
 and <?...?> structures.
        Returns:
        Syntax characters (< > / = ! ?) are returned as
  Character, and strings and names are returned as Boolean. We don't care
  what the values actually are.
        Throws:
        JSONException - If a string is not properly closed or if the XML is badly structured.

      • nextToken

        public java.lang.Object nextToken()
                           throws JSONException
        
 Get the next XML Token. These tokens are found inside of angle
 brackets. It may be one of these characters: / > = ! ? or it
 may be a string wrapped in single quotes or double quotes, or it may be a
 name.
        Returns:
        a String or a Character.
        Throws:
        JSONException - If the XML is not well formed.

      • skipPast

        public void skipPast​(java.lang.String to)
        Skip characters until past the requested string. If it is not found, we are left at the end of the source with a result of false.
        Parameters:
        to - A string to skip past.