Instead of decoding entities in the lexer we'll do this whenever XML::Text#text
is called. This removes the overhead from the parsing phase and ensures the
process is only triggered when actually needed. Note that calling #to_xml and/or
the #inspect methods on a Text (or parent) instance will also trigger the entity
conversion process.
The new entity decoding API supports both regular entities (e.g. &) as well
as codepoint based entities (both regular and hexadecimal codepoints).
To allow safe read-only access to Text instances from multiple threads a mutex
is used. This mutex ensures that only 1 thread can trigger the conversion
process.
Fixes#68
This API is a little bit dodgy (similar to Nokogiri's API) due to the use of
separate parser and handler classes. This is done to ensure that the return
values of callback methods (e.g. on_element) aren't used by Racc for building
AST trees. This also ensures that whatever variables are set by the handler
don't conflict with any variables of the parser.
This fixes#42.
Instead of returning the tokens as a whole they are now streamed using
XML::Lexer#advance. This method returns the next token upon every call. It uses
a small buffer in case a particular block of text results in multiple tokens.
Yorick Peterse