/* AbiSource
 * 
 * Copyright (C) 2005 Daniel d'Andrada T. de Carvalho
 * <daniel.carvalho@indt.org.br>
 * 
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  
 * 02111-1307, USA.
 */

#ifndef _ODi_STARTTAG_H_
#define _ODi_STARTTAG_H_

// AbiWord includes
#include <ut_stringbuf.h>
#include <ut_vector.h>

/**
 * This class contains the data of a start element tag.
 * 
 * It's intended to be reused, so, its data is buffered.
 * Reusing this class is a good idea beacuse during the parsing of an
 * OpenDocument text stream there will be LOTS of creation and destruction
 * of start tags. Making "new" and "delete" operations for these events would
 * be a significant performance burden.
 */
class ODi_StartTag {
public:
   
   ODi_StartTag(UT_uint32 attributeGrowStep=10);
   ~ODi_StartTag();
   
   void set(const XML_Char* pName, const XML_Char** ppAtts);

    /**
     * @return An UTF-8 string.
     */
    inline const char* getName() const {return m_name.data();}

    inline UT_uint32 getAttributeCount() const {return m_attributeSize/2;}

    /**
     * @param rName An UTF-8 string, conataining the attribute name.
     * @return An UTF-8 string, containing its value.
     */    
    const char* getAttributeValue(const char* rName ) const;

    

private:

   UT_UTF8Stringbuf m_name;
   
   // Even values are the attributes names and the odds are the values
   UT_UTF8Stringbuf* m_pAttributes;
   
   // Used array slots for m_pAttributes
   UT_uint32 m_attributeSize;
   
   // Allocated array slots for m_pAttributes
   UT_uint32 m_attributeMemSize;
   
   UT_uint32 m_attributeGrowStep;
   
   
   void _growAttributes();
};

#endif //_ODi_STARTTAG_H_
