.\" 
.Dd $Mdocdate: January 16 2009 $
.Dt mdoc 3
.Os
.\"
.Sh NAME
.Nm mdoc_alloc ,
.Nm mdoc_parseln ,
.Nm mdoc_endparse ,
.Nm mdoc_result ,
.Nm mdoc_free
.Nd mdoc macro compiler library
.\"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In mdoc.h
.Ft "struct mdoc *"
.Fn mdoc_alloc "void *data" "const struct mdoc_cb *cb"
.Ft void
.Fn mdoc_free "struct mdoc *mdoc"
.Ft int
.Fn mdoc_parseln "struct mdoc *mdoc" "int line" "char *buf"
.Ft "const struct mdoc_node *"
.Fn mdoc_result "struct mdoc *mdoc"
.Ft int
.Fn mdoc_endparse "struct mdoc *mdoc"
.\"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm mdoc
library parses lines of mdoc-macro text into an abstract syntax tree.
In general, applications initiate a parsing sequence with
.Fn mdoc_alloc ,
parse each line in a document with 
.Fn mdoc_parseln ,
close the parsing session with
.Fn mdoc_endparse ,
operate over the syntax tree returned by
.Fn mdoc_result ,
then free all allocated memory with
.Fn mdoc_free .
See the
.Sx EXAMPLES
section for a full example.
.Pp
Function descriptions follow:
.Bl -ohang -offset indent
.It Fn mdoc_alloc
Allocates a parsing structure.  The
.Fa data
pointer is passed to callbacks in
.Fa cb , 
which are documented further in the header file.  Returns NULL on
failure.  If non-NULL, the pointer must be freed with
.Fn mdoc_free .
.It Fn mdoc_free
Free all resources of a parser.  The pointer is no longer valid after
invocation.
.It Fn mdoc_parseln
Parse a nil-terminated line of input.  This line should not contain the
trailing newline.  Returns 0 on failure, 1 on success.  The input buffer 
.Fa buf
is modified by this function.
.It Fn mdoc_endparse
Signals that the parse is complete.  Note that if 
.Fn mdoc_endparse
is called subsequent to
.Fn mdoc_result ,
the resulting tree is incomplete.  Returns 0 on failure, 1 on success.
.It Fn mdoc_result
Returns the result of the parse or NULL on failure.  Note that if 
.Fn mdoc_parseln
or
.Fn mdoc_endparse
return 0, the tree will be incomplete.
.El
.Pp
.Nm
is
.Ud
.\" 
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following example reads lines from stdin and parses them, operating
on the finished parse tree with 
.Fn parsed .
Note that, if the last line of the file isn't newline-terminated, this
will truncate the file's last character (see 
.Xr fgetln 3 ) .
Further, this example does not error-check nor free memory upon failure.
.Bd -literal
struct mdoc *mdoc;
struct mdoc_node *node;
char *buf;
size_t len;
int line;

line = 1;
mdoc = mdoc_alloc(NULL, NULL);

while ((buf = fgetln(fp, &len))) {
	buf[len - 1] = '\\0';
	if ( ! mdoc_parseln(mdoc, line, buf))
		errx(1, "mdoc_parseln");
	line++;
}

if ( ! mdoc_endparse(mdoc))
	errx(1, "mdoc_endparse");
if (NULL == (node = mdoc_result(mdoc)))
	errx(1, "mdoc_result");

parsed(mdoc, node);
mdoc_free(mdoc);
.Ed
.\"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mdoc 7 ,
.Xr mdoc.samples 7 ,
.Xr groff 1 ,
.Xr mdocml 1
.\"
.\"
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
utility was written by 
.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@kth.se .
.\"
.\"
.Sh BUGS
The 
.Sq \&Xc
and
.Sq \&Xo
macros aren't handled when used to span lines for the
.Sq \&It
macro.  Such usage is specifically discouraged in
.Xr mdoc.samples 7 .
.Pp
When 
.Sq \&It \-column
is invoked, whitespace is not stripped around
.Sq \&Ta
or tab-character separators.