Package net.sf.saxon.xpath

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Class Summary
StandaloneContext	A StandaloneContext provides a context for parsing an expression or pattern appearing in a context other than a stylesheet.
Variable	An object representing an XPath variable for use in the standalone XPath API.
XPathEvaluator	XPathEvaluator provides a simple API for standalone XPath processing (that is, executing XPath expressions in the absence of an XSLT stylesheet).
XPathExpression	XPathExpression represents a compiled XPath expression that can be repeatedly evaluated.

 

Exception Summary
XPathException	XPathException is used to indicate an error in an XPath expression.
XPathException.Circularity	Subclass used to report circularities
XPathException.Dynamic	Subclass used for dynamic errors
XPathException.Static	Subclass used for static errors
XPathException.Type	Subclass used for type errors

 

Package net.sf.saxon.xpath Description

This package provides an API for executing XPath expressions directly from a Java application. The API can be used either in a free-standing Java application (that is, where there is no XSLT stylesheet), or it can be used from within Java extension functions called from XPath expressions within a stylesheet.

The API is loosely modelled on the draft W3C DOM Level 3 API for XPath. However, it does not implement the proposed DOM interfaces directly. The main differences are due to the need to support a richer set of result types in XPath 2.0 (the DOM API currently only supports XPath 1.0).

Michael H. Kay
25 April 2002