# SAX Machine
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## Description
A declarative SAX parsing library backed by Nokogiri or Ox.
## Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
```ruby
gem 'sax-machine'
```
And then execute:
```bash
$ bundle
```
## Usage
SAX Machine can use either `nokogiri` or `ox` as XML SAX handler.
To use **Nokogiri** add this line to your Gemfile:
```ruby
gem 'nokogiri', '~> 1.6'
```
To use **Ox** add this line to your Gemfile:
```ruby
gem 'ox', '>= 2.1.2'
```
You can also specify which handler to use manually, like this:
```ruby
SAXMachine.handler = :nokogiri
```
## Examples
Include `SAXMachine` in any class and define properties to parse:
```ruby
class AtomContent
include SAXMachine
attribute :type
value :text
end
class AtomEntry
include SAXMachine
element :title
# The :as argument makes this available through entry.author instead of .name
element :name, as: :author
element "feedburner:origLink", as: :url
# The :default argument specifies default value for element when it's missing
element :summary, class: String, default: "No summary available"
element :content, class: AtomContent
element :published
ancestor :ancestor
end
class Atom
include SAXMachine
element :title
# The :with argument means that you only match a link tag
# that has an attribute of type: "text/html"
element :link, value: :href, as: :url, with: {
type: "text/html"
}
# The :value argument means that instead of setting the value
# to the text between the tag, it sets it to the attribute value of :href
element :link, value: :href, as: :feed_url, with: {
type: "application/atom+xml"
}
elements :entry, as: :entries, class: AtomEntry
end
```
Then parse any XML with your class:
```ruby
feed = Atom.parse(xml_text)
feed.title # Whatever the title of the blog is
feed.url # The main URL of the blog
feed.feed_url # The URL of the blog feed
feed.entries.first.title # Title of the first entry
feed.entries.first.author # The author of the first entry
feed.entries.first.url # Permalink on the blog for this entry
feed.entries.first.summary # Returns "No summary available" if summary is missing
feed.entries.first.ancestor # The Atom ancestor
feed.entries.first.content # Instance of AtomContent
feed.entries.first.content.text # Entry content text
```
You can also use the elements method without specifying a class:
```ruby
class ServiceResponse
include SAXMachine
elements :message, as: :messages
end
response = ServiceResponse.parse("
hi
world
")
response.messages.first # hi
response.messages.last # world
```
To limit conflicts in the class used for mappping, you can use the alternate
`SAXMachine.configure` syntax:
```ruby
class X < ActiveRecord::Base
# This way no element, elements or ancestor method will be added to X
SAXMachine.configure(X) do |c|
c.element :title
end
end
```
Multiple elements can be mapped to the same alias:
```ruby
class RSSEntry
include SAXMachine
# ...
element :pubDate, as: :published
element :pubdate, as: :published
element :"dc:date", as: :published
element :"dc:Date", as: :published
element :"dcterms:created", as: :published
end
```
If more than one of these elements exists in the source, the value from the *last one* is used. The order of
the `element` declarations in the code is unimportant. The order they are encountered while parsing the
document determines the value assigned to the alias.
If an element is defined in the source but is blank (e.g., ``), it is ignored, and non-empty one is picked.
## Contributing
1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create new Pull Request
## LICENSE
The MIT License
Copyright (c) 2009-2014:
* [Paul Dix](http://www.pauldix.net)
* [Julien Kirch](http://www.archiloque.net)
* [Ezekiel Templin](http://zeke.templ.in)
* [Dmitry Krasnoukhov](http://krasnoukhov.com)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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