add feature enhanced inline reference

- increased performance for inline references pointing to SHORT-NAME
- referenced element won't be looked up
- SHORT-NAME will be directly extracted from the reference itself

arxml_data_extractor/handler/path_handler.py

@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ def element_by_inline_ref(self, path: DataQuery.XPath, node: Element) -> Union[E
             )
             return None
 
+        # if inline reference and value path is SHORT-NAME, it skips getting referenced element
+        # to increase parsing performance. Instead the element containing the reference is returned.
+        # This is only possible because the SHORT-NAME can be extracted directly from reference.text.
+        # The special treatment is implemented in ValueHandler.
+        if path_to_value == 'SHORT-NAME':
+            return reference
+
         referred_element = self.element_by_ref(reference.text)
         return self.element_by_xpath(path_to_value, referred_element)
 

arxml_data_extractor/handler/value_handler.py

@@ -7,7 +7,14 @@
 
 
 def handle(query: DataQuery, node: Element) -> Any:
-    value = __get_value(query.value, node)
+    # Special treatment for inline references pointing to the references SHORT-NAME
+    if isinstance(query.path, DataQuery.XPath) \
+        and query.path.is_reference \
+        and query.path.xpath.endswith(')SHORT-NAME'):
+        value = node.text.split('/')[-1]
+    else:
+        value = __get_value(query.value, node)
+
     if value is None:
         return value
     return __convert_value(value, query.format)