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What are the different event types and data?

Table 2 lists the ten different event types returned by the next_event method of an SGMLS object and the different types of data associated with each of these (note that these do not correspond to the standard ESIS events).

Table 2: The SGMLS_Event types

Event Type

'start_element'

Event Data

SGMLS_Element

Description

The beginning of an element.

Event Type

'end_element'

Event Data

SGMLS_Element

Description

The end of an element.

Event Type

'cdata'

Event Data

string

Description

Regular character data.

Event Type

'sdata'

Event Data

string

Description

Special system data.

Event Type

're'

Event Data

[none]

Description

A record-end (i.e., a newline).

Event Type

'pi'

Event Data

string

Description

A processing instruction

Event Type

'entity'

Event Data

SGMLS_Entity

Description

A non-SGML external entity.

Event Type

'start_subdoc'

Event Data

SGMLS_Entity

Description

The beginning of an SGML subdocument.

Event Type

'end_subdoc'

Event Data

SGMLS_Entity

Description

The end of an SGML subdocument.

Event Type

'conforming'

Event Data

[none]

Description

The document was valid.

For example, if $event->type returns 'start_element', then $event->data will return an object belonging to the SGMLS_Element class (which will contain a list of attributes, etc. -- see below), $event->file and $event->line will return the file and line-number in which the element appeared (if you called sgmls or nsgmls with the -l flag), and $event->element will return the element currently in force (in this case, the same as $event->data).

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