wt.util.xml.xpath
Interface XPathNI

All Superinterfaces:

XPath

All Known Implementing Classes:

XPathXalan2Impl

public interface XPathNI

extends XPath

Extension to basic XPath interface which provides extra capabilities in the area of NodeIterators (see methods). The XPath instances produced by XPathFactory may or may not implement this interface (though they do at this time).

Method Summary

Object

evaluateAllowingIterResult(Node node) Same as XPath.evaluate(Node) except that org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator objects will be returned in place of NodeLists when the result is a node set.

Methods inherited from interface wt.util.xml.xpath.XPath

evaluate, evaluate

Method Detail

evaluateAllowingIterResult

public Object evaluateAllowingIterResult(Node node)
                                  throws XPathException

Same as XPath.evaluate(Node) except that org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator objects will be returned in place of NodeLists when the result is a node set. This can be advantageous in that it may be more efficient in some XPath implementations.

Throws:

XPathException