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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 <html> 3 <head> 4 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> 5 <title>xmlmodule: dynamic module loading</title> 6 <meta name="generator" content="Libxml2 devhelp stylesheet"/> 7 <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="libxml2 Reference Manual"/> 8 <link rel="up" href="general.html" title="API"/> 9 <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"/> 10 <link rel="chapter" href="general.html" title="API"/> 11 </head> 12 <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> 13 <table class="navigation" width="100%" summary="Navigation header" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> 14 <tr valign="middle"> 15 <td> 16 <a accesskey="p" href="libxml2-xmlmemory.html"> 17 <img src="left.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Prev"/> 18 </a> 19 </td> 20 <td> 21 <a accesskey="u" href="general.html"> 22 <img src="up.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Up"/> 23 </a> 24 </td> 25 <td> 26 <a accesskey="h" href="index.html"> 27 <img src="home.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Home"/> 28 </a> 29 </td> 30 <td> 31 <a accesskey="n" href="libxml2-xmlreader.html"> 32 <img src="right.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Next"/> 33 </a> 34 </td> 35 <th width="100%" align="center">libxml2 Reference Manual</th> 36 </tr> 37 </table> 38 <h2> 39 <span class="refentrytitle">xmlmodule</span> 40 </h2> 41 <p>xmlmodule - dynamic module loading</p> 42 <p>basic API for dynamic module loading, used by libexslt added in 2.6.17 </p> 43 <p>Author(s): Joel W. Reed </p> 44 <div class="refsynopsisdiv"> 45 <h2>Synopsis</h2> 46 <pre class="synopsis">typedef struct _xmlModule <a href="#xmlModule">xmlModule</a>; 47 typedef <a href="libxml2-xmlmodule.html#xmlModule">xmlModule</a> * <a href="#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a>; 48 typedef enum <a href="#xmlModuleOption">xmlModuleOption</a>; 49 int <a href="#xmlModuleFree">xmlModuleFree</a> (<a href="libxml2-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> module); 50 int <a href="#xmlModuleSymbol">xmlModuleSymbol</a> (<a href="libxml2-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> module, <br/> const char * name, <br/> void ** symbol); 51 <a href="libxml2-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> <a href="#xmlModuleOpen">xmlModuleOpen</a> (const char * name, <br/> int options); 52 int <a href="#xmlModuleClose">xmlModuleClose</a> (<a href="libxml2-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> module); 53 </pre> 54 </div> 55 <div class="refsect1" lang="en"> 56 <h2>Description</h2> 57 </div> 58 <div class="refsect1" lang="en"> 59 <h2>Details</h2> 60 <div class="refsect2" lang="en"> 61 <div class="refsect2" lang="en"><h3><a name="xmlModule">Structure </a>xmlModule</h3><pre class="programlisting">struct _xmlModule { 62 The content of this structure is not made public by the API. 63 } xmlModule; 64 </pre><p/> 65 </div> 66 <hr/> 67 <div class="refsect2" lang="en"><h3><a name="xmlModuleOption">Enum </a>xmlModuleOption</h3><pre class="programlisting">enum <a href="#xmlModuleOption">xmlModuleOption</a> { 68 <a name="XML_MODULE_LAZY">XML_MODULE_LAZY</a> = 1 /* lazy binding */ 69 <a name="XML_MODULE_LOCAL">XML_MODULE_LOCAL</a> = 2 /* local binding */ 70 }; 71 </pre><p/> 72 </div> 73 <hr/> 74 <div class="refsect2" lang="en"><h3><a name="xmlModulePtr">Typedef </a>xmlModulePtr</h3><pre class="programlisting"><a href="libxml2-xmlmodule.html#xmlModule">xmlModule</a> * xmlModulePtr; 75 </pre><p>A handle to a dynamically loaded module</p> 76 </div> 77 <hr/> 78 <div class="refsect2" lang="en"><h3><a name="xmlModuleClose"/>xmlModuleClose ()</h3><pre class="programlisting">int xmlModuleClose (<a href="libxml2-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> module)<br/> 79 </pre><p>The close operations unload the associated module and free the data associated to the module.</p> 80 <div class="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left"/><tbody><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>module</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the module handle</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>Returns</tt></i>:</span></td><td>0 in case of success, -1 in case of argument error and -2 if the module could not be closed/unloaded.</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> 81 <hr/> 82 <div class="refsect2" lang="en"><h3><a name="xmlModuleFree"/>xmlModuleFree ()</h3><pre class="programlisting">int xmlModuleFree (<a href="libxml2-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> module)<br/> 83 </pre><p>The free operations free the data associated to the module but does not unload the associated shared library which may still be in use.</p> 84 <div class="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left"/><tbody><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>module</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the module handle</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>Returns</tt></i>:</span></td><td>0 in case of success, -1 in case of argument error</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> 85 <hr/> 86 <div class="refsect2" lang="en"><h3><a name="xmlModuleOpen"/>xmlModuleOpen ()</h3><pre class="programlisting"><a href="libxml2-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> xmlModuleOpen (const char * name, <br/> int options)<br/> 87 </pre><p>Opens a module/shared library given its name or path NOTE: that due to portability issues, behaviour can only be guaranteed with @name using ASCII. We canot guarantee that an UTF-8 string would work, which is why name is a const char * and not a const <a href="libxml2-xmlstring.html#xmlChar">xmlChar</a> * . TODO: options are not yet implemented.</p> 88 <div class="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left"/><tbody><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>name</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the module name</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>options</tt></i>:</span></td><td>a set of <a href="libxml2-xmlmodule.html#xmlModuleOption">xmlModuleOption</a></td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>Returns</tt></i>:</span></td><td>a handle for the module or NULL in case of error</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> 89 <hr/> 90 <div class="refsect2" lang="en"><h3><a name="xmlModuleSymbol"/>xmlModuleSymbol ()</h3><pre class="programlisting">int xmlModuleSymbol (<a href="libxml2-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> module, <br/> const char * name, <br/> void ** symbol)<br/> 91 </pre><p>Lookup for a symbol address in the given module NOTE: that due to portability issues, behaviour can only be guaranteed with @name using ASCII. We canot guarantee that an UTF-8 string would work, which is why name is a const char * and not a const <a href="libxml2-xmlstring.html#xmlChar">xmlChar</a> * .</p> 92 <div class="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left"/><tbody><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>module</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the module</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>name</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the name of the symbol</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>symbol</tt></i>:</span></td><td>the resulting symbol address</td></tr><tr><td><span class="term"><i><tt>Returns</tt></i>:</span></td><td>0 if the symbol was found, or -1 in case of error</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> 93 <hr/> 94 </div> 95 </div> 96 </body> 97 </html>