class XML::Builder

Overview

An XML builder generates valid XML.

An XML::Error is raised if attempting to generate an invalid XML (for example, if invoking #end_element without a matching #start_element, or trying to use a non-string value as an object's field name)

Defined in:

xml/builder.cr

Constructors

Instance Method Summary

Instance methods inherited from class Reference

==(other : self)
==(other : JSON::Any)
==(other : YAML::Any)
==(other) ==, dup dup, hash(hasher) hash, initialize initialize, inspect(io : IO) : Nil inspect, object_id : UInt64 object_id, pretty_print(pp) : Nil pretty_print, same?(other : Reference) : Bool
same?(other : Nil) same?, to_s(io : IO) : Nil to_s

Constructor methods inherited from class Reference

new new, unsafe_construct(address : Pointer, *args, **opts) : self unsafe_construct

Class methods inherited from class Reference

pre_initialize(address : Pointer) pre_initialize

Instance methods inherited from class Object

! : Bool !, !=(other) !=, !~(other) !~, ==(other) ==, ===(other : JSON::Any)
===(other : YAML::Any)
===(other) ===, =~(other) =~, as(type : Class) as, as?(type : Class) as?, class class, dup dup, hash(hasher)
hash hash, in?(collection : Object) : Bool
in?(*values : Object) : Bool in?, inspect(io : IO) : Nil
inspect : String inspect, is_a?(type : Class) : Bool is_a?, itself itself, nil? : Bool nil?, not_nil!(message)
not_nil! not_nil!, pretty_inspect(width = 79, newline = "\n", indent = 0) : String pretty_inspect, pretty_print(pp : PrettyPrint) : Nil pretty_print, responds_to?(name : Symbol) : Bool responds_to?, tap(&) tap, to_json(io : IO) : Nil
to_json : String to_json, to_pretty_json(indent : String = " ") : String
to_pretty_json(io : IO, indent : String = " ") : Nil to_pretty_json, to_s(io : IO) : Nil
to_s : String to_s, to_yaml(io : IO) : Nil
to_yaml : String to_yaml, try(&) try, unsafe_as(type : T.class) forall T unsafe_as

Class methods inherited from class Object

from_json(string_or_io, root : String)
from_json(string_or_io) from_json, from_yaml(string_or_io : String | IO) from_yaml

Macros inherited from class Object

class_getter(*names, &block) class_getter, class_getter!(*names) class_getter!, class_getter?(*names, &block) class_getter?, class_property(*names, &block) class_property, class_property!(*names) class_property!, class_property?(*names, &block) class_property?, class_setter(*names) class_setter, def_clone def_clone, def_equals(*fields) def_equals, def_equals_and_hash(*fields) def_equals_and_hash, def_hash(*fields) def_hash, delegate(*methods, to object) delegate, forward_missing_to(delegate) forward_missing_to, getter(*names, &block) getter, getter!(*names) getter!, getter?(*names, &block) getter?, property(*names, &block) property, property!(*names) property!, property?(*names, &block) property?, setter(*names) setter

Constructor Detail

def self.new(io : IO) #

Creates a builder that writes to the given io.


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Instance Method Detail

def attribute(*args, **nargs, &) #

Emits the start of an attribute, invokes the block, and then emits the end of the attribute.


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def attribute(prefix : String | Nil, name : String, namespace_uri : String | Nil, value) : Nil #

Emits an attribute with namespace info and a value.


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def attribute(name : String, value) : Nil #

Emits an attribute with a value.


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def attributes(attributes : Hash | NamedTuple) : Nil #

Emits the given attributes with their values.


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def attributes(**attributes) #

Emits the given attributes with their values.


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def cdata(&) #

Emits the start of a CDATA section, invokes the block and then emits the end of the CDATA section.

NOTE CDATA end sequences written within the block need to be escaped manually.


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def cdata(text : String) : Nil #

Emits a CDATA section. Escapes nested CDATA end sequences.


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def comment(&) #

Emits the start of a comment, invokes the block and then emits the end of the comment.


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def comment(text : String) : Nil #

Emits a comment.


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def document(version = nil, encoding = nil, &) #

Emits the start of the document, invokes the block, and then emits the end of the document.


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def dtd(name : String, pubid : String, sysid : String, &) : Nil #

Emits the start of a DTD, invokes the block and then emits the end of the DTD.


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def dtd(name : String, pubid : String, sysid : String, subset : String | Nil = nil) : Nil #

Emits a DTD.


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def element(__prefix__ : String | Nil, __name__ : String, __namespace_uri__ : String | Nil, attributes : Hash | NamedTuple, &) #

Emits the start of an element with namespace info with the given attributes, invokes the block and then emits the end of the element.


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def element(__prefix__ : String | Nil, __name__ : String, __namespace_uri__ : String | Nil, **attributes, &) #

Emits the start of an element with namespace info with the given attributes, invokes the block and then emits the end of the element.


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def element(__name__ : String, attributes : Hash | NamedTuple, &) #

Emits the start of an element with the given attributes, invokes the block and then emits the end of the element.


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def element(__name__ : String, **attributes, &) #

Emits the start of an element with the given attributes, invokes the block and then emits the end of the element.


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def element(prefix : String | Nil, name : String, namespace_uri : String | Nil, attributes : Hash | NamedTuple) : Nil #

Emits an element with namespace info with the given attributes.


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def element(prefix : String | Nil, name : String, namespace_uri : String | Nil, **attributes) : Nil #

Emits an element with namespace info with the given attributes.


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def element(name : String, attributes : Hash | NamedTuple) : Nil #

Emits an element with the given attributes.


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def element(__name__ : String, **attributes) #

Emits an element with the given attributes.


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def end_attribute : Nil #

Emits the end of an attribute.


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def end_cdata : Nil #

Emits the end of a CDATA section.


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def end_comment : Nil #

Emits the end of a comment.


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def end_document : Nil #

Emits the end of a document.


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def end_dtd : Nil #

Emits the end of a DTD.


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def end_element : Nil #

Emits the end of an element.


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def flush : Nil #

Forces content written to this writer to be flushed to this writer's IO.


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def indent=(str : String) #

Sets the indent string.


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def indent=(level : Int) #

Sets the indent level (number of spaces).


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def namespace(prefix, uri) : Nil #

Emits a namespace.


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def quote_char=(char : Char) #

Sets the quote char to use, either ' or ".


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def start_attribute(prefix : String | Nil, name : String, namespace_uri : String | Nil) #

Emits the start of an attribute with namespace info.


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def start_attribute(name : String) : Nil #

Emits the start of an attribute.


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def start_cdata : Nil #

Emits the start of a CDATA section.


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def start_comment : Nil #

Emits the start of a comment.


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def start_document(version = nil, encoding = nil) : Nil #

Emits the start of the document.


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def start_dtd(name : String, pubid : String, sysid : String) : Nil #

Emits the start of a DTD.


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def start_element(prefix : String | Nil, name : String, namespace_uri : String | Nil) : Nil #

Emits the start of an element with namespace info.


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def start_element(name : String) : Nil #

Emits the start of an element.


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def text(content : String) : Nil #

Emits text content.

Text content can happen inside of an #element, #attribute value, #cdata, #dtd, etc.


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