Struct HtmlAdapter 

pub struct HtmlAdapter { /* private fields */ }

A Quarb adapter over a parsed HTML document.

Implementations

impl HtmlAdapter

pub fn set_document_url(&mut self, url: &str)

Declare the document’s own URL — the base a relative href joins against when ::href--> reaches across documents.

pub fn parse(html: &str) -> Self

Parse html and build the adapter.

pub fn locator(&self, node: NodeId) -> String

A locator path to node, like /html/body/div[2]/p, for rendering. A [n] index is added only to disambiguate same-tag siblings.

Trait Implementations

impl AstAdapter for HtmlAdapter

fn traits(&self, node: NodeId) -> Vec<String>

Structural traits: <block> or <inline>, plus <heading> for h1–h6 and <link> for an anchor with an href.

fn property(&self, node: NodeId, name: &str) -> Option<Value>

Attributes, by name (::href). Element text is the bare projection (::) — no attribute name is shadowed.

fn default_value(&self, node: NodeId) -> Option<Value>

The default projection of an element is its text content.

fn metadata(&self, node: NodeId, key: &str) -> Option<Value>

::::tag, ::::classes (the class attribute, split), ::::attrs (the attribute names, sorted — the parser does not preserve source order), and ::::n-attrs — facts about the element, never its data: attribute values are properties (::href), text is the bare projection. attrs is what makes a renamed attribute discoverable: enumerate the names, probe the values by shape.

fn resolve( &self, node: NodeId, property: &str, hint: Option<&str>, ) -> Option<NodeId>

Follow an attribute that is a fragment reference (#section) to the element with that id. Used by an anchor’s ::href-->.

fn external_ref( &self, node: NodeId, property: &str, hint: Option<&str>, ) -> Option<String>

The external reference an href-like attribute holds: the absolute URL, relative values joined against the document’s own URL (when the mount declared one). A bare #fragment stays in-document (that is resolve’s job); a fragment on a cross-document URL rides along — it is the crossref within the target, landed by resolve_fragment once that document is mounted. Non-web schemes reference nothing followable. Feeds ::href--> across documents — the acquisition arrow.

fn resolve_fragment(&self, _node: NodeId, fragment: &str) -> Option<NodeId>

html’s fragment landing: the element whose id is fragment, anywhere in this document.

fn ref_property(&self, node: NodeId) -> Option<String>

The bare arrow’s property: an anchor-family element’s href, a frame’s src.

fn ref_label(&self, node: NodeId, property: &str) -> Option<String>

The relation an href edge carries: the rel attribute — <link rel="stylesheet">, <a rel="nofollow">. The spec’s -->stylesheet hint filters on it; absent, the edge label falls back to the property name.

fn root(&self) -> NodeId

The root node — the initial navigation context.

fn children(&self, node: NodeId) -> Vec<NodeId>

The tree children of node, in document order.

fn name(&self, node: NodeId) -> Option<String>

The name of node — the label of its incoming tree edge.

fn parent(&self, node: NodeId) -> Option<NodeId>

The parent of node, or None for the root.

fn properties(&self, _node: NodeId) -> Vec<(String, Value)>

The node’s own properties, enumerated — name and value, in the source’s order — for readings that keep values off the tree (the JSON property reading, where an object’s scalar fields are no nodes). The serializers (| json, | xml, | kaiv) merge them with the children, a child winning a shared name. The default is none: for a reading whose values are all nodes, the children already say everything.

fn non_tree_nodes(&self) -> Vec<NodeId>

The nodes of the arbor that are not in the tree — joined to it by crosslinks alone, with no parent and no path. The universal search *// reaches them after the tree, in this order; :::is-non-tree is true on them. The default is none: every shipped adapter puts every node in the tree.

fn child_host(&self, node: NodeId) -> NodeId

The node whose children an explicit child step from node reads. The default is node itself. An adapter whose tree holds transparent links (a filesystem’s symlink to a directory) answers the link’s target, so /link/name lands on the target’s own child — the same node /target/name reaches. The descendant walk never consults this: it reads children alone, so a linked subtree is walked once, under its own parent, and a cycle of links cannot trap it.

fn children_named(&self, node: NodeId, name: &str) -> Vec<NodeId>

The children of node whose edge name is exactly name — the engine’s fast path for name-matcher child hops. The default filters children; an adapter whose containers cannot be enumerated (permission-scoped or unbounded remote trees) overrides this with a direct, name-addressed lookup. Must be observationally identical to the default wherever enumeration works. The adapter owns the name test: it may deliberately alias — resolve a name to a node whose edge name differs (git revision syntax landing on a hash-named commit) — and the engine will not re-filter. Container-scoped resolution like that stays child-axis only; per-node spelling aliases belong in answers_to, which this default consults.

fn answers_to(&self, node: NodeId, name: &str) -> bool

Whether node answers to name as a literal spelling (ruling #30). The default is canonical equality. An adapter may declare per-node aliases — a social feed spelling a handle @alice while the stripped alice is the hop name — and the engine consults this wherever a literal name is matched, on every axis, so one override keeps /@alice and //@alice in agreement. :::name stays canonical (locators and reflection print it; an alias is a way in, never a way out), and name patterns (~(...), *) test the canonical name only.

fn has_trait(&self, node: NodeId, name: &str) -> bool

Whether node bears name as a trait, as written in a <...> clause. The default is membership in traits; an adapter may declare aliases the way answers_to does for names — a model file’s alias <chunk> <block>; or alias <s/^tag://i>; — and the engine consults this wherever a written trait is matched. Reflection and serialization print the canonical traits only.

fn aliased_metadata(&self, _node: NodeId) -> &'static [&'static str]

Metadata keys this adapter also answers at :: (ruling #29), for the given node — per node, because a composite adapter (a multi-mount, a graft) answers for whichever document owns it. Only an adapter whose property surface is closed — fixed by the adapter, never grown by document content — may declare aliases: a git commit cannot sprout a short field, where a JSON object can sprout anything. Data always wins: the engine consults property first and falls through only when it answers None for that node, so an alias can never shadow a document. Core metadata (:::) is never aliased — name, id and index exist on every node, and aliasing them would change what ::name means wherever a document happens to lack that field.

fn links(&self, _node: NodeId) -> Vec<(String, NodeId)>

Outgoing crosslinks from node, as (label, target) pairs, for -> navigation (a filesystem adapter’s symlinks).

fn backlinks(&self, _node: NodeId) -> Vec<(String, NodeId)>

Incoming crosslinks to node, as (label, source) pairs, for <- navigation. May be expensive (an adapter that does not precompute edges must search for referrers).

fn link_property( &self, _source: NodeId, _label: &str, _target: NodeId, _name: &str, ) -> Option<Value>

A property of the crosslink source --label--> target — the $-::prop read. Adapters whose edges carry data (a property graph’s relationship properties) override this; None if the edge is bare or unknown. Where parallel edges share source, label, and target, the adapter answers for one of them, consistently.

fn document_by_ref(&self, _id: &str) -> Option<NodeId>

The document this arbor holds under an external-reference identifier (a URL, fragment-stripped), when it can answer without the host’s registration: the landing rung of --> after the mounted-document table misses. An adapter over a store of pages answers by URL lookup; the engine performs no IO either way.

fn reverse_resolve( &self, _node: NodeId, _property: Option<&str>, _hint: Option<&str>, ) -> Option<Vec<NodeId>>

Every node whose property (or, when None, own reference property) resolves to node, in document order — the reverse index behind <--. None keeps the engine’s walk of the whole arbor; Some is the adapter’s complete answer.

fn descendants_named( &self, _node: NodeId, _name: &str, ) -> Option<Vec<(NodeId, usize)>>

The descendants of node that answer to name, each with its depth (children are depth 1), in document order — the fast path behind //name for an adapter whose substrate indexes names. None keeps the engine’s walk; Some must be exactly what the walk would find.

fn descendants_where( &self, _node: NodeId, _name: &str, _property: &str, _value: &Value, ) -> Option<Vec<(NodeId, usize)>>

The descendants of node named name whose property property equals value, each with its depth, in document order — the fast path behind //name[::property = "value"] for an adapter that indexes a property (the corpus reading’s positional index answers //token[::lower = "tom"] from it). None keeps the engine’s walk and its comparison; Some must be exactly what the walk would find under the standard equality, so an adapter answers only the values it can compare as the engine does (text against text).

fn prefetch_links(&self, _nodes: &[NodeId], _dir: LinkDir)

A batching hint: the engine is about to follow dir crosslinks from every node in nodes. An adapter backed by a store may fetch them in one statement; semantics are unchanged either way.

fn quantifier_bound(&self) -> usize

The quantifier bound N_max: the depth to which open-ended path quantifiers (+, *, {m,}) expand, and the ceiling of any explicit {m,n} (the effective upper bound is min(n, N_max)). An adapter whose natural structures run deep may raise it; the CLI overrides it per run (qua --quantifier-bound).

fn allow_shell(&self) -> bool

Whether the sh(...) pipeline stage may run external commands. False by default — query text stays inert data — and enabled per run by the CLI (qua --allow-shell) through the AllowShell wrapper.

fn invocation_instant(&self) -> Option<(i64, u32)>

The invocation instant now() denotes (spec: The Temporal Fragment, Determinism): one UTC timeline point bound by the runner BEFORE evaluation begins — evaluation itself never reads a clock. None by default (a library run is fully deterministic; now() reads as null); the CLI binds it at startup — pinnable with qua --now — through the WithNow wrapper.

fn provenance(&self, _node: NodeId) -> Provenance

The data provenance of node — the :::source / :::instant / :::dpid / :::provenance core-metadata keys. Empty by default: an adapter answers only the components its substrate genuinely records (never the invocation clock); wrapper adapters fill missing components from what they know — the mount its target, a graft its outer leaf, a model its derivation — and forward the rest inward, so resolution is nearest-ancestor per component.

fn has_node(&self, node: NodeId) -> bool

Whether node is an id this adapter minted — the guard behind the node-id anchor ((!N)), which may name an id from an earlier run (ids are minted deterministically: the same source, the same ids). The default probes the id through parent and name and treats a panic as absence, so an adapter that indexes by id needs no override; one that can answer cheaply should.

fn provenance_list(&self, node: NodeId) -> ProvenanceList

The data provenance of node as a list — every source the substrate records for the datum, and how many it elides. The default is the singular answer as a one-entry list; an adapter whose substrate records several (kaiv’s ?a;b;+N) overrides it, and a wrapper layers each entry.

fn unit_scale(&self, expr: &str) -> Option<(f64, String)>

The scale of a unit expression — (factor, canonical SI-base expansion) — for the unital reading’s criterion text (spec: The Quantital Fragment). The default answers from the engine’s frozen built-in table; a unit-aware adapter (kaiv) overrides it to include the mounted document’s own custom units, so [::range < '50kellicam'] resolves through the document’s .!units imports.