[//000000001]: # (doctools::toc::import \- Documentation tools) [//000000002]: # (Generated from file 'toc\_import\.man' by tcllib/doctools with format 'markdown') [//000000003]: # (Copyright © 2009\-2019 Andreas Kupries ) [//000000004]: # (doctools::toc::import\(n\) 0\.2\.1 tcllib "Documentation tools")
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# NAME doctools::toc::import \- Importing keyword indices # Table Of Contents - [Table Of Contents](#toc) - [Synopsis](#synopsis) - [Description](#section1) - [Concepts](#section2) - [API](#section3) - [Package commands](#subsection1) - [Object command](#subsection2) - [Object methods](#subsection3) - [Import plugin API v2 reference](#section4) - [ToC serialization format](#section5) - [Bugs, Ideas, Feedback](#section6) - [Keywords](#keywords) - [Category](#category) - [Copyright](#copyright) # SYNOPSIS package require doctools::toc::import ?0\.2\.1? package require Tcl 8\.4 package require struct::map package require doctools::toc::structure package require snit package require pluginmgr [__::doctools::toc::import__ *objectName*](#1) [__objectName__ __method__ ?*arg arg \.\.\.*?](#2) [*objectName* __destroy__](#3) [*objectName* __import text__ *text* ?*format*?](#4) [*objectName* __import file__ *path* ?*format*?](#5) [*objectName* __import object text__ *object* *text* ?*format*?](#6) [*objectName* __import object file__ *object* *path* ?*format*?](#7) [*objectName* __config names__](#8) [*objectName* __config get__](#9) [*objectName* __config set__ *name* ?*value*?](#10) [*objectName* __config unset__ *pattern*\.\.\.](#11) [*objectName* __includes__](#12) [*objectName* __include add__ *path*](#13) [*objectName* __include remove__ *path*](#14) [*objectName* __include clear__](#15) [__IncludeFile__ *currentfile* *path*](#16) [__[import](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#import)__ *text* *configuration*](#17) # DESCRIPTION This package provides a class to manage the plugins for the import of tables of contents from other formats, i\.e\. their conversion from, for example *[doctoc](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#doctoc)*, *[json](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#json)*, etc\. This is one of the three public pillars the management of tables of contents resides on\. The other two pillars are 1. *[Exporting tables of contents](toc\_export\.md)*, and 1. *[Holding tables of contents](toc\_container\.md)* For information about the [Concepts](#section2) of tables of contents, and their parts, see the same\-named section\. For information about the data structure which is the major output of the manager objects provided by this package see the section [ToC serialization format](#section5)\. The plugin system of our class is based on the package __[pluginmgr](\.\./pluginmgr/pluginmgr\.md)__, and configured to look for plugins using 1. the environment variable __DOCTOOLS\_TOC\_IMPORT\_PLUGINS__, 1. the environment variable __DOCTOOLS\_TOC\_PLUGINS__, 1. the environment variable __DOCTOOLS\_PLUGINS__, 1. the path "~/\.doctools/toc/import/plugin" 1. the path "~/\.doctools/toc/plugin" 1. the path "~/\.doctools/plugin" 1. the path "~/\.doctools/toc/import/plugins" 1. the path "~/\.doctools/toc/plugins" 1. the path "~/\.doctools/plugins" 1. the registry entry "HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\\SOFTWARE\\DOCTOOLS\\TOC\\IMPORT\\PLUGINS" 1. the registry entry "HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\\SOFTWARE\\DOCTOOLS\\TOC\\PLUGINS" 1. the registry entry "HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\\SOFTWARE\\DOCTOOLS\\PLUGINS" The last three are used only when the package is run on a machine using Windows\(tm\) operating system\. The whole system is delivered with two predefined import plugins, namely - doctoc See *[doctoc import plugin](import\_doctoc\.md)* for details\. - json See *json import plugin* for details\. Readers wishing to write their own import plugin for some format, i\.e\. *plugin writer*s reading and understanding the section containing the [Import plugin API v2 reference](#section4) is an absolute necessity, as it specifies the interaction between this package and its plugins in detail\. # Concepts 1. A *[table of contents](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#table\_of\_contents)* consists of a \(possibly empty\) list of *elements*\. 1. Each element in the list is identified by its label\. 1. Each element is either a *[reference](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#reference)*, or a *division*\. 1. Each reference has an associated document, identified by a symbolic id, and a textual description\. 1. Each division may have an associated document, identified by a symbolic id\. 1. Each division consists consists of a \(possibly empty\) list of *elements*, with each element following the rules as specified in item 2 and above\. A few notes 1. The above rules span up a tree of elements, with references as the leaf nodes, and divisions as the inner nodes, and each element representing an entry in the whole table of contents\. 1. The identifying labels of any element E are unique within their division \(or toc\), and the full label of any element E is the list of labels for all nodes on the unique path from the root of the tree to E, including E\. # API ## Package commands - __::doctools::toc::import__ *objectName* This command creates a new import manager object with an associated Tcl command whose name is *objectName*\. This *[object](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#object)* command is explained in full detail in the sections [Object command](#subsection2) and [Object methods](#subsection3)\. The object command will be created under the current namespace if the *objectName* is not fully qualified, and in the specified namespace otherwise\. ## Object command All objects created by the __::doctools::toc::import__ command have the following general form: - __objectName__ __method__ ?*arg arg \.\.\.*? The method __method__ and its *arg*'uments determine the exact behavior of the command\. See section [Object methods](#subsection3) for the detailed specifications\. ## Object methods - *objectName* __destroy__ This method destroys the object it is invoked for\. - *objectName* __import text__ *text* ?*format*? This method takes the *text* and converts it from the specified *format* to the canonical serialization of a table of contents using the import plugin for the format\. An error is thrown if no plugin could be found for the format\. The serialization generated by the conversion process is returned as the result of this method\. If no format is specified the method defaults to __doctoc__\. The specification of what a *canonical* serialization is can be found in the section [ToC serialization format](#section5)\. The plugin has to conform to the interface specified in section [Import plugin API v2 reference](#section4)\. - *objectName* __import file__ *path* ?*format*? This method is a convenient wrapper around the __import text__ method described by the previous item\. It reads the contents of the specified file into memory, feeds the result into __import text__ and returns the resulting serialization as its own result\. - *objectName* __import object text__ *object* *text* ?*format*? This method is a convenient wrapper around the __import text__ method described by the previous item\. It expects that *object* is an object command supporting a __deserialize__ method expecting the canonical serialization of a table of contents\. It imports the text using __import text__ and then feeds the resulting serialization into the *object* via __deserialize__\. This method returns the empty string as it result\. - *objectName* __import object file__ *object* *path* ?*format*? This method behaves like __import object text__, except that it reads the text to convert from the specified file instead of being given it as argument\. - *objectName* __config names__ This method returns a list containing the names of all configuration variables currently known to the object\. - *objectName* __config get__ This method returns a dictionary containing the names and values of all configuration variables currently known to the object\. - *objectName* __config set__ *name* ?*value*? This method sets the configuration variable *name* to the specified *value* and returns the new value of the variable\. If no value is specified it simply returns the current value, without changing it\. Note that while the user can set the predefined configuration variables __user__ and __format__ doing so will have no effect, these values will be internally overridden when invoking an import plugin\. - *objectName* __config unset__ *pattern*\.\.\. This method unsets all configuration variables matching the specified glob *pattern*s\. If no pattern is specified it will unset all currently defined configuration variables\. - *objectName* __includes__ This method returns a list containing the currently specified paths to use to search for include files when processing input\. The order of paths in the list corresponds to the order in which they are used, from first to last, and also corresponds to the order in which they were added to the object\. - *objectName* __include add__ *path* This methods adds the specified *path* to the list of paths to use to search for include files when processing input\. The path is added to the end of the list, causing it to be searched after all previously added paths\. The result of the command is the empty string\. The method does nothing if the path is already known\. - *objectName* __include remove__ *path* This methods removes the specified *path* from the list of paths to use to search for include files when processing input\. The result of the command is the empty string\. The method does nothing if the path is not known\. - *objectName* __include clear__ This method clears the list of paths to use to search for include files when processing input\. The result of the command is the empty string\. # Import plugin API v2 reference Plugins are what this package uses to manage the support for any input format beyond the [ToC serialization format](#section5)\. Here we specify the API the objects created by this package use to interact with their plugins\. A plugin for this package has to follow the rules listed below: 1. A plugin is a package\. 1. The name of a plugin package has the form doctools::toc::import::__FOO__, where __FOO__ is the name of the format the plugin will generate output for\. This name is also the argument to provide to the various __import__ methods of import manager objects to get a string encoding a table of contents in that format\. 1. The plugin can expect that the package __doctools::toc::export::plugin__ is present, as indicator that it was invoked from a genuine plugin manager\. 1. The plugin can expect that a command named __IncludeFile__ is present, with the signature - __IncludeFile__ *currentfile* *path* This command has to be invoked by the plugin when it has to process an included file, if the format has the concept of such\. An example of such a format would be *[doctoc](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#doctoc)*\. The plugin has to supply the following arguments * string *currentfile* The path of the file it is currently processing\. This may be the empty string if no such is known\. * string *path* The path of the include file as specified in the include directive being processed\. The result of the command will be a 5\-element list containing 1) A boolean flag indicating the success \(__True__\) or failure \(__False__\) of the operation\. 1) In case of success the contents of the included file, and the empty string otherwise\. 1) The resolved, i\.e\. absolute path of the included file, if possible, or the unchanged *path* argument\. This is for display in an error message, or as the *currentfile* argument of another call to __IncludeFile__ should this file contain more files\. 1) In case of success an empty string, and for failure a code indicating the reason for it, one of * notfound The specified file could not be found\. * notread The specified file was found, but not be read into memory\. 1) An empty string in case of success of a __notfound__ failure, and an additional error message describing the reason for a __notread__ error in more detail\. 1. A plugin has to provide one command, with the signature shown below\. - __[import](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#import)__ *text* *configuration* Whenever an import manager of __[doctools::toc](\.\./doctools/doctoc\.md)__ has to parse input for a table of contents it will invoke this command\. * string *text* This argument will contain the text encoding the table of contents per the format the plugin is for\. * dictionary *configuration* This argument will contain the current configuration to apply to the parsing, as a dictionary mapping from variable names to values\. The following configuration variables have a predefined meaning all plugins have to obey, although they can ignore this information at their discretion\. Any other other configuration variables recognized by a plugin will be described in the manpage for that plugin\. + user This variable is expected to contain the name of the user owning the process invoking the plugin\. + format This variable is expected to contain the name of the format whose plugin is invoked\. 1. A single usage cycle of a plugin consists of the invokations of the command __[import](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#import)__\. This call has to leave the plugin in a state where another usage cycle can be run without problems\. # ToC serialization format Here we specify the format used by the doctools v2 packages to serialize tables of contents as immutable values for transport, comparison, etc\. We distinguish between *regular* and *canonical* serializations\. While a table of contents may have more than one regular serialization only exactly one of them will be *canonical*\. - regular serialization 1. The serialization of any table of contents is a nested Tcl dictionary\. 1. This dictionary holds a single key, __doctools::toc__, and its value\. This value holds the contents of the table of contents\. 1. The contents of the table of contents are a Tcl dictionary holding the title of the table of contents, a label, and its elements\. The relevant keys and their values are * __title__ The value is a string containing the title of the table of contents\. * __label__ The value is a string containing a label for the table of contents\. * __items__ The value is a Tcl list holding the elements of the table, in the order they are to be shown\. Each element is a Tcl list holding the type of the item, and its description, in this order\. An alternative description would be that it is a Tcl dictionary holding a single key, the item type, mapped to the item description\. The two legal item types and their descriptions are + __reference__ This item describes a single entry in the table of contents, referencing a single document\. To this end its value is a Tcl dictionary containing an id for the referenced document, a label, and a longer textual description which can be associated with the entry\. The relevant keys and their values are - __id__ The value is a string containing the id of the document associated with the entry\. - __label__ The value is a string containing a label for this entry\. This string also identifies the entry, and no two entries \(references and divisions\) in the containing list are allowed to have the same label\. - __desc__ The value is a string containing a longer description for this entry\. + __division__ This item describes a group of entries in the table of contents, inducing a hierarchy of entries\. To this end its value is a Tcl dictionary containing a label for the group, an optional id to a document for the whole group, and the list of entries in the group\. The relevant keys and their values are - __id__ The value is a string containing the id of the document associated with the whole group\. This key is optional\. - __label__ The value is a string containing a label for the group\. This string also identifies the entry, and no two entries \(references and divisions\) in the containing list are allowed to have the same label\. - __items__ The value is a Tcl list holding the elements of the group, in the order they are to be shown\. This list has the same structure as the value for the keyword __items__ used to describe the whole table of contents, see above\. This closes the recusrive definition of the structure, with divisions holding the same type of elements as the whole table of contents, including other divisions\. - canonical serialization The canonical serialization of a table of contents has the format as specified in the previous item, and then additionally satisfies the constraints below, which make it unique among all the possible serializations of this table of contents\. 1. The keys found in all the nested Tcl dictionaries are sorted in ascending dictionary order, as generated by Tcl's builtin command __lsort \-increasing \-dict__\. # Bugs, Ideas, Feedback This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems\. Please report such in the category *doctools* of the [Tcllib Trackers](http://core\.tcl\.tk/tcllib/reportlist)\. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation\. When proposing code changes, please provide *unified diffs*, i\.e the output of __diff \-u__\. Note further that *attachments* are strongly preferred over inlined patches\. Attachments can be made by going to the __Edit__ form of the ticket immediately after its creation, and then using the left\-most button in the secondary navigation bar\. # KEYWORDS [conversion](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#conversion), [doctoc](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#doctoc), [documentation](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#documentation), [import](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#import), [json](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#json), [manpage](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#manpage), [markup](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#markup), [parsing](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#parsing), [plugin](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#plugin), [reference](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#reference), [table](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#table), [table of contents](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#table\_of\_contents), [url](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#url) # CATEGORY Documentation tools # COPYRIGHT Copyright © 2009\-2019 Andreas Kupries