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href="index.html">API documentation</a></th><td><a accesskey="h" href="/index.html"><img src="home.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Home" /></a></td><th align="center"><a href="/index.html">The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</a></th><th align="right"><a href="libxml-xmlreader.html">xmlreader</a></th><td><a accesskey="n" href="libxml-xmlreader.html"><img src="right.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Next" /></a></td></tr></table><p>basic API for dynamic module loading, used by libexslt added in 2.6.17 </p><h2>Table of Contents</h2><pre class="programlisting">Structure <a href="#xmlModule">xmlModule</a><br />struct _xmlModule
14The content of this structure is not made public by the API.
15</pre><pre class="programlisting">Enum <a href="#xmlModuleOption">xmlModuleOption</a>
16</pre><pre class="programlisting">Typedef <a href="libxml-xmlmodule.html#xmlModule">xmlModule</a> * <a name="xmlModulePtr" id="xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a>
17</pre><pre class="programlisting">int	<a href="#xmlModuleClose">xmlModuleClose</a>			(<a href="libxml-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> module)</pre>
18<pre class="programlisting">int	<a href="#xmlModuleFree">xmlModuleFree</a>			(<a href="libxml-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> module)</pre>
19<pre class="programlisting"><a href="libxml-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a>	<a href="#xmlModuleOpen">xmlModuleOpen</a>		(const char * name, <br />					 int options)</pre>
20<pre class="programlisting">int	<a href="#xmlModuleSymbol">xmlModuleSymbol</a>			(<a href="libxml-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> module, <br />					 const char * name, <br />					 void ** symbol)</pre>
21<h2>Description</h2>
22<h3><a name="xmlModule" id="xmlModule">Structure xmlModule</a></h3><pre class="programlisting">Structure xmlModule<br />struct _xmlModule {
23The content of this structure is not made public by the API.
24}</pre><h3>Enum <a name="xmlModuleOption" id="xmlModuleOption">xmlModuleOption</a></h3><pre class="programlisting">Enum xmlModuleOption {
25    <a name="XML_MODULE_LAZY" id="XML_MODULE_LAZY">XML_MODULE_LAZY</a> = 1 : lazy binding
26    <a name="XML_MODULE_LOCAL" id="XML_MODULE_LOCAL">XML_MODULE_LOCAL</a> = 2 : local binding
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29      A handle to a dynamically loaded module
30    <h3><a name="xmlModuleClose" id="xmlModuleClose"></a>Function: xmlModuleClose</h3><pre class="programlisting">int	xmlModuleClose			(<a href="libxml-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> module)<br />
31</pre><p>The close operations unload the associated module and free the data associated to the module.</p>
32<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><h3><a name="xmlModuleFree" id="xmlModuleFree"></a>Function: xmlModuleFree</h3><pre class="programlisting">int	xmlModuleFree			(<a href="libxml-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> module)<br />
33</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>
34<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><h3><a name="xmlModuleOpen" id="xmlModuleOpen"></a>Function: xmlModuleOpen</h3><pre class="programlisting"><a href="libxml-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a>	xmlModuleOpen		(const char * name, <br />					 int options)<br />
35</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="libxml-xmlstring.html#xmlChar">xmlChar</a> * . TODO: options are not yet implemented.</p>
36<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="libxml-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><h3><a name="xmlModuleSymbol" id="xmlModuleSymbol"></a>Function: xmlModuleSymbol</h3><pre class="programlisting">int	xmlModuleSymbol			(<a href="libxml-xmlmodule.html#xmlModulePtr">xmlModulePtr</a> module, <br />					 const char * name, <br />					 void ** symbol)<br />
37</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="libxml-xmlstring.html#xmlChar">xmlChar</a> * .</p>
38<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><p><a href="/bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>
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