eu.geclipse.jsdl.xpath
Class XPathDocument

java.lang.Object
  eu.geclipse.jsdl.xpath.XPathDocument

public class XPathDocument
extends java.lang.Object

Class simplifying querying of XML Document using XPath language. Handle such things like namespaces, caching compiled expressions etc.

Constructor Summary

XPathDocument(org.w3c.dom.Document document)

Method Summary

org.w3c.dom.Document	getDomDocument()
org.w3c.dom.NodeList	getNodes(org.w3c.dom.Node parentNode, java.lang.String xpathQuery) Get nodes selected by giving XPath
org.w3c.dom.NodeList	getNodes(java.lang.String xpathQuery) Makes the same as getNodes(Node, String) starting from document root
java.lang.String	getValue(org.w3c.dom.Node parentNode, java.lang.String xpathQuery) Get String value from node selected by query.
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

XPathDocument

public XPathDocument(org.w3c.dom.Document document)

Parameters:

document - on which XPath queries will be run

Method Detail

getNodes

public org.w3c.dom.NodeList getNodes(org.w3c.dom.Node parentNode,
                                     java.lang.String xpathQuery)
                              throws javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException

Get nodes selected by giving XPath

Parameters:

parentNode - XML node, from which query will be executed.

xpathQuery -

Returns:

nodes selected by query

Throws:

javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException

getNodes

public org.w3c.dom.NodeList getNodes(java.lang.String xpathQuery)
                              throws javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException

Makes the same as getNodes(Node, String) starting from document root

Parameters:

xpathQuery -

Returns:

nodes selected by query

Throws:

javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException

getValue

public java.lang.String getValue(org.w3c.dom.Node parentNode,
                                 java.lang.String xpathQuery)
                          throws javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException

Get String value from node selected by query.

Parameters:

parentNode -

xpathQuery -

Returns:

text value from selected node

Throws:

javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

getDomDocument

public org.w3c.dom.Document getDomDocument()

Returns:

dom document, which is attached to this xpath document