Module writer 

XML Writer API (§30, §85 Phase 7).

Streaming XML writer with indentation, encoding, escaping, document lifecycle.

Provides the xmlTextWriter* family of functions that allow constructing XML documents in a streaming fashion — start/end element, write attributes, text content, CDATA, comments, processing instructions, and DTD declarations.

UPSTREAM-PARITY

This module mirrors libxml2’s xmlTextWriter API defined in xmlwriter.h. The writer maintains a state machine that tracks whether we are inside an element start tag (attributes can be written), inside an attribute value, inside a CDATA section, etc.

Structs

XmlTextWriter

A streaming XML writer.

Functions

xmlFreeTextWriter^⚠

Free an XML text writer.

xmlNewTextWriter^⚠

Create a new XML text writer from an output buffer.

xmlNewTextWriterDoc^⚠

Create a new XML text writer for a document (tree mode).

xmlNewTextWriterFilename^⚠

Create a new XML text writer for a file.

xmlNewTextWriterMemory^⚠

Create a new XML text writer for a memory buffer.

xmlNewTextWriterTree^⚠

Create a new XML text writer for a subtree.

xmlTextWriterClose^⚠

Close the writer’s output buffer. The writer itself is NOT freed (upstream contract: xmlFreeTextWriter does that). Returns XML_ERR_OK (0) on success, XML_ERR_ARGUMENT (9) for a NULL writer or NULL output buffer.

xmlTextWriterEndAttribute^⚠

End an attribute (closes the attribute value quote).

xmlTextWriterEndCDATA^⚠

End a CDATA section.

xmlTextWriterEndComment^⚠

End a comment.

xmlTextWriterEndDTD^⚠

End a DTD declaration.

xmlTextWriterEndDTDAttlist^⚠

End a DTD attribute-list declaration.

xmlTextWriterEndDTDAttribute^⚠

End a DTD attribute declaration.

xmlTextWriterEndDTDElement^⚠

End a DTD element declaration.

xmlTextWriterEndDTDEntity^⚠

End a DTD entity declaration.

xmlTextWriterEndDocument^⚠

End an XML document.

xmlTextWriterEndElement^⚠

End an XML element.

xmlTextWriterEndPI^⚠

End a processing instruction.

xmlTextWriterFlush^⚠

Flush the writer’s output buffer.

xmlTextWriterFullEndElement^⚠

Write a full end element (always writes </name>, never self-closing).

xmlTextWriterSetIndent^⚠

Set indentation on/off.

xmlTextWriterSetIndentString^⚠

Set the indentation string.

xmlTextWriterSetQuoteChar^⚠

Set the quote character used for attribute and entity values.

xmlTextWriterStartAttribute^⚠

Write a formatted attribute.

xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS^⚠

Start a namespaced attribute (to be written incrementally).

xmlTextWriterStartCDATA^⚠

Start a CDATA section.

xmlTextWriterStartComment^⚠

Start a comment.

xmlTextWriterStartDTD^⚠

Start a DTD declaration.

xmlTextWriterStartDTDAttlist^⚠

Start a DTD attribute-list declaration (<!ATTLIST name).

xmlTextWriterStartDTDAttribute^⚠

Start a DTD attribute declaration.

xmlTextWriterStartDTDElement^⚠

Start a DTD element declaration.

xmlTextWriterStartDTDEntity^⚠

Start a DTD entity declaration.

xmlTextWriterStartDocument^⚠

Start an XML document.

xmlTextWriterStartElement^⚠

Start an XML element.

xmlTextWriterStartElementNS^⚠

Start a namespaced XML element.

xmlTextWriterStartPI^⚠

Start a processing instruction.

xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute^⚠

Write an attribute.

xmlTextWriterWriteAttributeNS^⚠

Write a namespaced attribute.

xmlTextWriterWriteBase64^⚠

Write a formatted string.

xmlTextWriterWriteBinHex^⚠

Write BinHex-encoded data.

xmlTextWriterWriteCDATA^⚠

Write a CDATA section.

xmlTextWriterWriteComment^⚠

Write a comment.

xmlTextWriterWriteDTD^⚠

Write a DTD declaration.

xmlTextWriterWriteDTDAttlist^⚠

Write a DTD attribute-list declaration (StartDTDAttlist + WriteString + EndDTDAttlist).

xmlTextWriterWriteDTDAttribute^⚠

Write a DTD attribute declaration.

xmlTextWriterWriteDTDElement^⚠

Write a DTD element declaration.

xmlTextWriterWriteDTDEntity^⚠

Write a DTD entity declaration.

xmlTextWriterWriteDTDExternalEntity^⚠

Write a DTD external entity (StartDTDEntity + ExternalEntityContents + EndDTDEntity).

xmlTextWriterWriteDTDExternalEntityContents^⚠

Write the external-entity contents after StartDTDEntity (PUBLIC/SYSTEM identifiers and NDATA).

xmlTextWriterWriteDTDInternalEntity^⚠

Write a DTD internal entity (StartDTDEntity + WriteString + EndDTDEntity).

xmlTextWriterWriteDTDNotation^⚠

Write a DTD notation declaration.

xmlTextWriterWriteElement^⚠

Write an element with inline content.

xmlTextWriterWriteElementNS^⚠

Write a namespaced element with inline content.

xmlTextWriterWritePI^⚠

Write a processing instruction.

xmlTextWriterWriteRaw^⚠

Write raw content (no XML escaping).

xmlTextWriterWriteRawLen^⚠

Write raw content with explicit length (no XML escaping).

xmlTextWriterWriteString^⚠

Write text content.

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatAttribute^⚠

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatAttributeNS^⚠

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatCDATA^⚠

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatComment^⚠

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatDTD^⚠

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatDTDAttlist^⚠

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatDTDElement^⚠

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatDTDInternalEntity^⚠

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatElement^⚠

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatElementNS^⚠

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatPI^⚠

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatRaw^⚠

xmlTextWriterWriteVFormatString^⚠