Class XPathType

Constructor Detail

• XPathType

  public XPathType(String expression,
           XPathType.Filter filter)

  Creates an XPathType instance with the specified XPath expression and filter.

  Parameters:

  expression - the XPath expression to be evaluated

  filter - the filter operation (XPathType.Filter.INTERSECT, XPathType.Filter.SUBTRACT, or XPathType.Filter.UNION)

  Throws:

  NullPointerException - if expression or filter is null

• XPathType

  public XPathType(String expression,
           XPathType.Filter filter,
           Map namespaceMap)

  Creates an XPathType instance with the specified XPath expression, filter, and namespace map. The map is copied to protect against subsequent modification.

  Parameters:

  expression - the XPath expression to be evaluated

  filter - the filter operation (XPathType.Filter.INTERSECT, XPathType.Filter.SUBTRACT, or XPathType.Filter.UNION)

  namespaceMap - the map of namespace prefixes. Each key is a namespace prefix String that maps to a corresponding namespace URI String.

  Throws:

  NullPointerException - if expression, filter or namespaceMap are null

  ClassCastException - if any of the map's keys or entries are not of type String

Method Detail

• getExpression

  public String getExpression()

  Returns the XPath expression to be evaluated.

  Returns:

  the XPath expression to be evaluated

• getFilter

  public XPathType.Filter getFilter()

  Returns the filter operation.

  Returns:

  the filter operation

• getNamespaceMap

  public Map getNamespaceMap()

  Returns a map of namespace prefixes. Each key is a namespace prefix String that maps to a corresponding namespace URI String.

  This implementation returns an unmodifiable map.

  Returns:

  a Map of namespace prefixes to namespace URIs (may be empty, but never null)