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+## Copyright (C) 2008 Bill Denney
+##
+## This software 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 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## This software 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 software; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{funlist}, @var{funloc}, @var{catlist}, @var{catloc}, @var{catlvl}] =} __matlabfunctionlist__ (@var{url})
+## Return a list of matlab functions, @var{funlist}, from the @var{url}.
+## It will also return the list of locations of the functions within the
+## file, the categories in the url (@var{catlist}), the location of the
+## categories within the url (@var{catloc}), and the level of the
+## categories (@var{catlvl}, 2 = h2, 3 = h3, ...). Note, the locations
+## may not be sorted or unique.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function [funlist, funloc, catlist, catloc, catlvl] = __matlabfunctionlist__ (url = "http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/f16-6011.html")
+
+ [raw, success, message] = urlread(url);
+ if (! success)
+ warning ("__matlabfunctionlist__:url",
+ "__matlabfunctionlist__: Could not read\n%s\n%s", url, message);
+ funlist = {};
+ funloc = [];
+ catlist = {};
+ catloc = [];
+ catlvl = [];
+ return
+ endif
+ ## Building up a really rough single-purpose XML parser
+
+ ## Tags
+ tagopen = find (raw == "<");
+ tagclose = find (raw == ">");
+ ## categories
+ h2loc = findstr (raw, "<h2");
+ ## sub-categories
+ h3loc = findstr (raw, "<h3");
+ ## sub-sub categories (optional)
+ h4loc = findstr (raw, "<h4");
+
+ ## Find the names of each section
+ h2name = getname (raw, h2loc, tagopen, tagclose);
+ h3name = getname (raw, h3loc, tagopen, tagclose);
+ h4name = getname (raw, h4loc, tagopen, tagclose);
+
+ catlist = [h2name(:);h3name(:);h4name(:)];
+ catloc = [h2loc(:);h3loc(:);h4loc(:)];
+ catlvl = [2*ones(numel(h2name),1);
+ 3*ones(numel(h3name),1);
+ 4*ones(numel(h4name),1)];
+
+ tmpfunloc = findstr (raw, "<tr valign=\"top\"><td width=\"150\"><a");
+ ## this is not quite right, but it is the minimum size required.
+ funlist = cell (numel (tmpfunloc), 1);
+ funloc = zeros (numel (tmpfunloc), 1);
+ idx = 0;
+ for i = 1:numel (tmpfunloc)
+ tmpfunname = raw(tagclose(find (tagclose > tmpfunloc(i), 3)(3))+1:
+ tagopen(find (tagopen > tmpfunloc(i), 3)(3))-1);
+ ## convert all whitespace to actual spaces
+ tmpfunname(isspace (tmpfunname)) = " ";
+ if (numel (tmpfunname) > 2)
+ tmpfunname = split (tmpfunname, ", ");
+ endif
+ for j = 1:rows (tmpfunname)
+ idx++;
+ funlist{idx} = strtrim (tmpfunname(j,:));
+ funloc(idx) = tmpfunloc(i);
+ endfor
+ endfor
+
+endfunction
+
+function name = getname (raw, loc, tagopen, tagclose)
+
+ name = cell (size (loc));
+ for i = 1:numel (loc)
+ name{i} = raw(tagclose(find (tagclose > loc(i), 1))+1:tagopen(find (tagopen > loc(i), 1))-1);
+ endfor
+
+endfunction