CTK/Libs/CommandLineModules/Core/ctkCmdLineModuleXslTransform.h

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#ifndef __ctkCmdLineModuleXslTransform_h
#define __ctkCmdLineModuleXslTransform_h

// CTK includes
#include "ctkCommandLineModulesCoreExport.h"
#include "ctkCmdLineModuleXmlValidator.h"
class ctkCmdLineModuleXslTransformPrivate;

// Qt includes
class QIODevice;

/**
 * \ingroup CommandLineModulesCore
 */
class CTK_CMDLINEMODULECORE_EXPORT ctkCmdLineModuleXslTransform
  : public ctkCmdLineModuleXmlValidator
{

public:

  ctkCmdLineModuleXslTransform(QIODevice* input = 0, QIODevice* output = 0);
  virtual ~ctkCmdLineModuleXslTransform();

  void setOutput(QIODevice* output);
  QIODevice* output() const;

  void setOutputSchema(QIODevice* output);

  /**
   * @brief Returns \code true if the XSL output will be formatted.
   * @return \code true if the ouptut will be formatted, \code false otherwise.
   */
  bool formatXmlOutput() const;

  /**
   * @brief Formats the XSL output to be human-readable.
   *
   * It is assumed that the XSL output is valid XML. The output will be
   * formatted with an indentation depth of four spaces. Note that setting
   * \e format to \code true increases compuational overhead and memory
   * requirements and is usually only done for testing or debugging purposes.
   */
  void setFormatXmlOutput(bool format);

  /**
   * @brief Transforms an XML input via a XSL transformation.
   *
   * This method assumes that the input set via setInput() or supplied
   * in the constructor is a valid, non empty XML fragment.
   *
   * @return
   */
  bool transform();

  void setXslTransformation(QIODevice* transformation);

  /**
   * @brief XSL to be injected in the main XSL.
   *
   * This can be used to potentially overwrite templates.
   * To avoid ambiguity, specify a priority > 1 in your overwriting templates
   *
   * @return
   */
  void setXslExtraTransformation(QIODevice* transformation);
  void setXslExtraTransformations(const QList<QIODevice*>& transformations);

  /**
   *  @brief Binds the variable name to the value so that $name can be used
   *  from within the query to refer to the value.
   *  In the default XslTransformation, the widget classes are variable and can
   *  be replaced with a new binding.
   *  @sa QXmlQuery::bindVariable()
   */
  void bindVariable(const QString& name, const QVariant& value);

  void setValidateOutput(bool validate);

  /** @brief returns true if an error occured
   *  transform() sets the error flag if an error occured when transforming the
   *  XML file into XSL.
   *  \sa errorString
   */
  virtual bool error() const;

  /** @brief Error message if any
   *  transform() sets the error message if an error occured when transforming
   * the XML file into XSL.
   *  \sa error
   */
  virtual QString errorString() const;

private:

  QScopedPointer<ctkCmdLineModuleXslTransformPrivate> d;

};


#endif // CTKCMDLINEMODULEXSLTRANSFORM_H