Creates a new Parsable subclass (of the given parsable_type
) from
the given xml
.
An object of the given parsable_type
is created, and its pre_parse_xml
, parse_xml
and
post_parse_xml
class functions called on the XML tree obtained from xml
. pre_parse_xml
and
post_parse_xml
are called once each on the root node of the tree, while parse_xml
is called for each of the child
nodes of the root node.
If length
is -1, xml
will be assumed to be null-terminated.
If an error occurs during parsing, a suitable error from ParserError will be returned.
parsable_type |
the type of the class represented by the XML |
xml |
the XML for just the parsable object, with full namespace declarations |
length |
the length of |
a new Parsable, or |