org.apache.axiom.om.xpath

Class AXIOMXPath

java.lang.Object

org.jaxen.BaseXPath

org.apache.axiom.om.xpath.AXIOMXPath

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, org.jaxen.XPath

public class AXIOMXPath
extends org.jaxen.BaseXPath

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Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
private java.util.Map	namespaces
private static long	serialVersionUID

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AXIOMXPath(OMAttribute attribute) Construct an XPath expression from a given attribute.
AXIOMXPath(OMElement element, java.lang.String xpathExpr) Construct an XPath expression from a given string and initialize its namespace context based on a given element.
AXIOMXPath(java.lang.String xpathExpr) Construct an XPath expression from a given string.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	addNamespace(java.lang.String prefix, java.lang.String uri) This override captures any added namespaces, as the Jaxen BaseXPath class nor NamespaceContext (or SimpleNamespaceContext) exposes thier internal map of the prefixes to the namespaces.
void	addNamespaces(OMElement element) Add the namespace declarations of a given OMElement to the namespace context of an XPath expression.
java.util.Map	getNamespaces() Expose the prefix to namespace mapping for this expression

Methods inherited from class org.jaxen.BaseXPath

booleanValueOf, createFunctionContext, createNamespaceContext, createVariableContext, debug, evaluate, getContext, getContextSupport, getFunctionContext, getNamespaceContext, getNavigator, getRootExpr, getVariableContext, numberValueOf, selectNodes, selectNodesForContext, selectSingleNode, selectSingleNodeForContext, setFunctionContext, setNamespaceContext, setVariableContext, stringValueOf, toString, valueOf

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

serialVersionUID

private static final long serialVersionUID

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Constant Field Values

namespaces

private java.util.Map namespaces

Constructor Detail

AXIOMXPath

public AXIOMXPath(java.lang.String xpathExpr)
           throws org.jaxen.JaxenException

Construct an XPath expression from a given string.

Parameters:

xpathExpr - the string representation of the XPath expression.

Throws:

org.jaxen.JaxenException - if there is a syntax error while parsing the expression

AXIOMXPath

public AXIOMXPath(OMElement element,
                  java.lang.String xpathExpr)
           throws org.jaxen.JaxenException

Construct an XPath expression from a given string and initialize its namespace context based on a given element.

Parameters:

element - The element that determines the namespace context of the XPath expression. See addNamespaces(OMElement) for more details.

xpathExpr - the string representation of the XPath expression.

Throws:

org.jaxen.JaxenException - if there is a syntax error while parsing the expression or if the namespace context could not be set up

AXIOMXPath

public AXIOMXPath(OMAttribute attribute)
           throws org.jaxen.JaxenException

Construct an XPath expression from a given attribute. The string representation of the expression is taken from the attribute value, while the attribute's owner element is used to determine the namespace context of the expression.

Parameters:

attribute - the attribute to construct the expression from

Throws:

org.jaxen.JaxenException - if there is a syntax error while parsing the expression or if the namespace context could not be set up

Method Detail

addNamespace

public void addNamespace(java.lang.String prefix,
                         java.lang.String uri)
                  throws org.jaxen.JaxenException

This override captures any added namespaces, as the Jaxen BaseXPath class nor NamespaceContext (or SimpleNamespaceContext) exposes thier internal map of the prefixes to the namespaces. This method - although is not the ideal solution to the issue, attempts to provide an override to changing the Jaxen code.

Specified by:

addNamespace in interface org.jaxen.XPath

Overrides:

addNamespace in class org.jaxen.BaseXPath

Parameters:

prefix - a namespace prefix

uri - the URI to which the prefix matches

Throws:

org.jaxen.JaxenException - if the underlying implementation throws an exception

addNamespaces

public void addNamespaces(OMElement element)
                   throws org.jaxen.JaxenException

Add the namespace declarations of a given OMElement to the namespace context of an XPath expression. Typically this method is used with an XPath expression appearing in an attribute of the given element.

Note that the default namespace is explicitly excluded and not added to the namespace context. This makes the behaviour of this method consistent with the rules followed in XSL stylesheets. Indeed, the XSLT specification defines the namespace context of an XPath expression as follows:

the set of namespace declarations are those in scope on the element which has the attribute in which the expression occurs; [...] the default namespace (as declared by xmlns) is not part of this set

Parameters:

element - the element to retrieve the namespace context from

Throws:

org.jaxen.JaxenException - if an error occurred when adding the namespace declarations

getNamespaces

public java.util.Map getNamespaces()

Expose the prefix to namespace mapping for this expression

Returns:

a Map of namespace prefixes to the URIs