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#ifndef _OUSIA_CSS_PARSER_HPP_
#define _OUSIA_CSS_PARSER_HPP_
-#include <istream>
-#include <map>
#include <vector>
#include <tuple>
#include "BufferedCharReader.hpp"
-#include "Managed.hpp"
-#include "Node.hpp"
#include "CSS.hpp"
+#include "Exceptions.hpp"
namespace ousia {
+/**
+ * This is a context free, recursive parser for a subset of the CSS3 language
+ * as defined by W3C. We allow the following grammar:
+ *
+ * DOC := SELECT RULESET DOC | epsilon
+ * SELECTORS := SELECT , SELECTORS | SELECT
+ * SELECT := SELECT' OPERATOR SELECT | SELECT'
+ * SELECT' := TYPE | TYPE:PSEUDO | TYPE::GEN_PSEUDO |
+ * TYPE:PSEUDO(ARGUMENTS) |
+ * TYPE::GEN_PSEUDO(ARGUMENTS) | TYPE#ID |
+ * TYPE[ATTRIBUTE] | TYPE[ATTRIBUTE=VALUE]
+ * TYPE := string
+ * PSEUDO := string
+ * GEN_PSEUDO := string
+ * ARGUMENTS := string , ARGUMENTS
+ * ID := string
+ * ATTRIBUTE := string
+ * VALUE := string
+ * OPERATOR := epsilon | &gt;
+ * RULESET := epsilon | { RULES }
+ * RULES := RULE RULES | epsilon
+ * RULE := KEY : VALUE ;
+ * KEY := string
+ * VALUE := type-specific parser
+ *
+ *
+ * @author Benjamin Paassen - bpaassen@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
+ */
class CSSParser {
-
private:
+ /**
+ * Implements the DOC Nonterminal
+ */
+ void parseDocument(Rooted<SelectorNode> root, CodeTokenizer &tokenizer);
+ /**
+ * Implements the SELECTORS Nonterminal and adds all leaf nodes of the
+ * resulting SelectorTree to the input leafList so that a parsed RuleSet can
+ * be inserted there.
+ */
+ void parseSelectors(Rooted<SelectorNode> root, CodeTokenizer &tokenizer,
+ std::vector<Rooted<SelectorNode>> &leafList);
+ /**
+ * Implements the SELECT Nonterminal, which in effect parses a SelectorPath
+ * of the SelectorTree and returns the beginning node of the path as first
+ * element as well as the leaf of the path as second tuple element.
+ */
+ std::tuple<Rooted<SelectorNode>, Rooted<SelectorNode>> parseSelector(
+ CodeTokenizer &tokenizer);
+
+ /**
+ * Implements the SELECT' Nonterminal, which parses a single Selector with
+ * its PseudoSelector and returns it.
+ */
+ Rooted<SelectorNode> parsePrimitiveSelector(CodeTokenizer &tokenizer);
+
+ // TODO: Add RuleSet parsing methods.
+
+ /**
+ * A convenience function to wrap around the tokenizer peek() function that
+ * only returns true if an instance of the expected type occurs.
+ *
+ * @param expectedType the ID of the expected type according to the
+ * CodeTokenizer specification.
+ * @param tokenizer the tokenizer for the input.
+ * @param t an empty token that gets the parsed token content
+ * if it has the expected type.
+ * @param force a flag to be set if it would be fatal for the
+ * parsing process to get the wrong type. In that case
+ * an exception is thrown.
+ * @return true iff a token of the expected type was found.
+ */
+ bool expect(int expectedType, CodeTokenizer &tokenizer, Token &t,
+ bool force);
public:
- StyleNode parse(BufferedCharReader &input);
+ /**
+ * This parses the given input as CSS content as specified by the grammar
+ * seen above. The return value is a Rooted reference to the root of the
+ * SelectorTree.
+ * TODO: The RuleSet at the respective node at the tree lists all CSS Style
+ * rules that apply.
+ */
+ Rooted<SelectorNode> parse(BufferedCharReader &input);
};
}