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// This file is not part of the Qt API.  It exists purely as an
// implementation detail.  This header file may change from version to
// version without notice, or even be removed.
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// We mean it.

#ifndef Patternist_CompressedWhitespace_H
#define Patternist_CompressedWhitespace_H

#include <QtGlobal>

QT_BEGIN_HEADER

QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE

class QChar;
class QString;
class QStringRef;

namespace QPatternist
{
    /**
     * @short A compression facility for whitespace nodes.
     *
     * CompressedWhitespace compresses and decompresses strings that consists of
     * whitespace only, and do so with a scheme that is designed to do this
     * specialized task in an efficient way. The approach is simple: each
     * sequence of equal whitespace in the input gets coded into one byte,
     * where the first two bits signals the type, CharIdentifier, and the
     * remininding six bits is the count.
     *
     * For instance, this scheme manages to compress a sequence of spaces
     * followed by a new line into 16 bits(one QChar), and QString stores
     * strings of one QChar quite efficiently, by avoiding a heap allocation.
     *
     * There is no way to tell whether a QString is compressed or not.
     *
     * The compression scheme originates from Saxon, by Michael Kay.
     *
     * @author Frans Englich <[email protected]>
     */
    class Q_AUTOTEST_EXPORT CompressedWhitespace
    {
        public:
            /**
             * @short Compresses @p input into a compressed format, returned
             * as a QString.
             *
             * The caller guarantees that input is not empty
             * and consists only of whitespace.
             *
             * The returned format is opaque. There is no way to find out
             * whether a QString contains compressed data or not.
             *
             * @see decompress()
             */
            static QString compress(const QStringRef &input);

            /**
             * @short Decompresses @p input into a usual QString.
             *
             * @p input must be a QString as per returned from compress().
             *
             * @see compress()
             */
            static QString decompress(const QString &input);

        private:
            /**
             * We use the two upper bits for communicating what space it is.
             */
            enum CharIdentifier
            {
                Space   = 0x0,

                /**
                 * 0xA, \\r
                 *
                 * Binary: 10000000
                 */
                CR      = 0x80,

                /**
                 * 0xD, \\n
                 *
                 * Binary: 01000000
                 */
                LF      = 0x40,

                /**
                 * Binary: 11000000
                 */
                Tab     = 0xC0
            };

            enum Constants
            {
                /* We can at maximum store this many consecutive characters
                 * of one type. We use 6 bits for the count. */
                MaxCharCount = (1 << 6) - 1,