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/**
 * @mainpage
 *
 * @section SEC_TOC Table of Contents
 * - <a href="#SEC_INTRO">Introduction</a>
 * - <a href="#SEC_READING">Reading a playlist</a>
 * - <a href="#SEC_WRITING">Writing a playlist</a>
 * - <a href="#SEC_MALICIOUS">Handling malicious XML</a>
 *
 *
 * @section SEC_INTRO Introduction
 * Welcome to the short libSpiff integration tutorial.
 * I recommend using this tutorial together with the
 * code samples in the <c>examples</c> folder; one
 * of these two sources is likely to answer your questions.
 * Please drop me a line if you need further assistance.
 * Good luck with integrating libSpiff.
 *
 * @section SEC_READING Reading a playlist
 * To read an XSPF playlist you first need a reader instance:
 * 
 * @code
 * 	SpiffReaer reader;
 * @endcode
 * 
 * You use the reader like this:
 * 
 * @code
 * 	XML_Char const * const baseUri = _PT("http://example.org/");
 * 	reader.parseFile(_PT("playlist.xspf"), NULL, baseUri);
 * @endcode
 * 
 * That _PT() thing is a macro to support Unicode.
 * More details on this later.
 * The second parameter is the callback object that
 * will receive playlist and track information as
 * they are made available; it can be <c>NULL</c> if you just
 * want to verify that the given file is valid XSPF
 * version 0 or 1 but do not need any more specific
 * information about it. In general it is a pointer
 * to an instance of a class derived from SpiffReaderCallback.
 * That means it can override these functions:
 * 
 * @code
 * 	void addTrack(SpiffTrack * track);
 * 	void setProps(SpiffProps * props);
 *
 * 	void notifyFatalError(..);
 * 	bool handleError(..);
 * 	bool handleWarning(..);
 * 	void notifySuccess();
 * @endcode
 * 
 * The first two of these are called by the reader when new
 * information is made available; setProps() will
 * be called once per playlist (if the reader has not
 * stopped before due to an error) but addTrack() can
 * be called multiple times.
 * 
 * @remarks
 * The callback model was copied from Expat,
 * the underlying XML parser; this model does not
 * need the whole XML tree in memory at a time,
 * thus it is more memory-friendly.
 * 
 * These two functions have to do very similar
 * work: They are passed a data object which they
 * can analyze (by calling methods starting with "get")
 * or <i>steal</i> properties from (by calling methods starting with "steal").
 *
 * @attention
 * Both of these functions have to delete the track/props when
 * they are done to prevent memory leakage or decide to keep them
 * for later; the reader will not do this work for you!
 * Furthermore when deleting the track/props instance all
 * memory not previously <i>stolen</i> from it will also be deleted
 * by the destructor.
 * <i>Stealing</i> means transferring the memory's ownership and preventing
 * it from getting deleted. To avoid memory leakage you should delete
 * the stolen memory yourself later.
 * 
 * @remarks
 * The whole steal-analyze-model was introduced to reduce
 * the number of unnecessary copy operations and therefore
 * speed up the parsing process.
 * 
 * When reading is finished the value returned from parseFile() will be
 * either <c>SPIFF_READER_SUCCESS</c> or one of the error codes.
 * More details about the error occured are passed to the SpiffReaderCallback in use.
 *
 *
 * 
 * @section SEC_WRITING Writing a playlist
 * To write an XSPF playlist file you first need a writer instance:
 *
 * @code
 * 	XML_Char const * const baseUri = _PT("http://example.org/");
 * 	SpiffWriter * const writer = SpiffWriter::makeWriter(formatter, baseUri);
 * @endcode
 * 
 * The first parameter is an XML formatter
 * (an instance of a class derived from SpiffXmlFormatter)
 * which will mainly control the whitespace in the XML output.
 * libSpiff already comes with two built-in formatters:
 * SpiffIndentFormatter which creates well-indented XML output
 * and SpiffSeamlessFormatter which does not create any whitespace at all.
 * The second parameter is the base URI used to shorten URIs where possible.
 *
 * If our playlist itself has properties we have to set them
 * before adding any tracks:
 * 
 * @code
 * 	SpiffProps props;
 * 	...
 * 	/* Fill in props */
 * 	...
 * 	writer->setProps(props);
 * @endcode
 * 
 * You could set the playlist's creation time like this:
 * 
 * @code
 * 	SpiffDateTime dateTime(2006, 8, 28, 11, 30, 11, 1, 0);
 * 	props.lendDate(&dateTime);
 * @endcode
 * 
 * Similar to the steal/get duality introduced earlier you have to choose
 * between the "lend" and "give" function family when setting
 * information. The whole thing again is only about memory ownership:
 * The lend functions do not transfer ownership, the give functions do.
 * The give family also offers to copy the memory or to assign
 * existing memory. To make this more clear calling 
 *
 * @code
 * 	props.giveTitle(_PT("Some title"), SpiffData::TRANSFER);
 * @endcode
 * 
 * would be a bad idea since the memory would not be copied but still
 * be deleted on destruction. You should use
 *
 * @code
 * 	props.lendTitle(_PT("Some title"));
 * @endcode
 * 
 * in this case.
 *
 * Back to the writer: When you have created a SpiffWriter instance
 * you can let it write its content to file:
 *
 * @code
 * 	writer.writeFile(_PT("TEST.xspf"));
 * @endcode
 * 
 * In this case that would make a valid playlist without any tracks.
 * So before writing the playlist you should add your tracks:
 *
 * @code
 * 	SpiffTrack track;
 * 	...
 * 	track.lendCreator(_PT("Breaking Benjamin"));
 * 	...
 * 	writer.addTrack(track);
 * @endcode
 * 
 * When addTrack() is called the track information is appended to an
 * internal buffer which is written when writeFile() is called eventually.
 * You can add the same track several times and you can call writeFile()
 * several times to write the same playlist to several files;
 * what you cannot do is add more tracks after writing the playlist
 * to a file: You will have to call reset() to start over with an empty track list first.
 * 
 *
 * @section SEC_MALICIOUS Handling malicious XML
 * Let us assume you are using libSpiff to power some kind of web service with XSPF
 * reading cabilities.  Let us further assume this service can accept XSPF input
 * from a user. Due to the nature of XML your service would be vulnerable to
 * an <i>XML entity explosion attack</i>. What this means is that a rather small
 * malicious XML file can make the running XML processor a huge amount of memory
 * or CPU time or both.
 *
 * A popular example is <i>billion laughs</i>, of which an XSPF version
 * could look like this:
 *
 * @code
 * 	<?xml version="1.0"?>
 * 	<!DOCTYPE billion [
 * 	<!ELEMENT billion (#PCDATA)>
 * 	<!ENTITY laugh0 "ha">
 * 	<!ENTITY laugh1 "&laugh0;&laugh0;">
 * 	<!ENTITY laugh2 "&laugh1;&laugh1;">
 * 	<!ENTITY laugh3 "&laugh2;&laugh2;">
 * 	<!ENTITY laugh4 "&laugh3;&laugh3;">
 * 	...
 * 	<!ENTITY laugh30 "&laugh29;&laugh29;">
 * 	]>
 * 	<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
 * 	  <title>&laugh30;</title>
 * 	  <trackList />
 * 	</playlist>
 * @endcode
 *
 * With malicious XML detection enabled, libSpiff sets certain limits
 * to the values of entities.  Currently these limits are:
 * - Length of entity values
 * - Sum of lookups per entity value
 * - Lookup depth per entity value
 *
 * The above <i>billion laughs</i> example has these metrics:
 * <table border="0">
 * <tr><td class="indexkey">Entity</td><td class="indexkey">Length</td><td class="indexkey">Lookup Sum</td><td class="indexkey">Lookup Depth</td></tr>
 * <tr><td class="indexvalue">laugh0</td><td class="indexvalue">2</td><td class="indexvalue">0</td><td class="indexvalue">0</td></tr>
 * <tr><td class="indexvalue">laugh1</td><td class="indexvalue">4</td><td class="indexvalue">2</td><td class="indexvalue">1</td></tr>
 * <tr><td class="indexvalue">laugh2</td><td class="indexvalue">8</td><td class="indexvalue">6</td><td class="indexvalue">2</td></tr>
 * <tr><td class="indexvalue">laugh3</td><td class="indexvalue">16</td><td class="indexvalue">14</td><td class="indexvalue">3</td></tr>
 * <tr><td class="indexvalue">laugh4</td><td class="indexvalue">32</td><td class="indexvalue">30</td><td class="indexvalue">4</td></tr>
 * <tr><td class="indexvalue">...</td><td class="indexvalue">...</td><td class="indexvalue">...</td><td class="indexvalue">...</td></tr>
 * <tr><td class="indexvalue">laugh30</td><td class="indexvalue">2,147,483,648</td><td class="indexvalue">2,147,483,646</td><td class="indexvalue">30</td></tr>
 * <tr><td class="indexvalue">laugh<i>n</i></td><td class="indexvalue">2^(<i>n</i>+1)</td><td class="indexvalue">2^(<i>n</i>+1)-2</td><td class="indexvalue"><i>n</i></td></tr>
 * </table>
 *
 * Looking at <i>laugh30</i> all three values are much higher than those of most peaceful XML files.
 * Through calling
 *
 * @code
 * 	reader.enableMaliciousXmlDetection(true);
 * @endcode
 *
 * you can make a SpiffReader instance protocol these metrics in order to detect
 * malicious XML.  Also, all of these metrics can be limited and adjusted individually;
 * for instance this is how to limit the lookup depth to a maximum of 2:
 *
 * @code
 * 	reader.limitLookupDepthPerEntityValue(true);
 * 	reader.setMaxLookupDepthPerEntityValue(2);
 * @endcode
 *
 * @attention
 * Malicious XML detection can only work for you if you are clear
 * about your software's use cases.  Tune the detection parameters to
 * what you have to allow and reject everything else.
 */