Method: Xbd.parse

Defined in:
lib/xbd/xbd.rb

.parse(source) ⇒ Object

XBD.parse accepts:

a string or
any object that returns a string in response to the method "read"
  (for example, an open file handle)



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# File 'lib/xbd/xbd.rb', line 98

def Xbd.parse(source)
  #treat source as a stream(file) if it isn't a string
  source=source.read.force_encoding("BINARY") if source.class!=String

  # read the header
  raise "Not a valid XBD file" unless source[0..SBDXML_HEADER.length-1]==SBDXML_HEADER
  index=SBDXML_HEADER.length

  # read each of the 3 dictionaries in order
  tagsd,index=Dictionary.parse(source,index)
  attrsd,index=Dictionary.parse(source,index)
  valuesd,index=Dictionary.parse(source,index)

  # read all tags, return the root-tag
  Tag.parse(source,index,tagsd,attrsd,valuesd)[0]
end