org.xmlpull.v1.builder.xpath.jaxen
Interface VariableContext

All Known Implementing Classes:

SimpleVariableContext

public interface VariableContext

Resolves variable bindings within an XPath expression.

Variables within an XPath expression are denoted using notation such as $varName or $nsPrefix:varName, and may refer to primitive types (Boolean, Number or String), node-sets or individual XML nodes.

When a variable is bound to a node-set, the actual Java object returned should be a java.util.List containing XML nodes from the object-model (dom4j, JDOM, DOM, EXML) being used with the XPath.

A variable may validly be assigned the null value, but an unbound variable (one that this context does not know about) should cause an UnresolvableException to be thrown.

See Also:

SimpleVariableContext, NamespaceContext

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

getVariableValue(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String prefix, java.lang.String localName) An implementation should return the value of an xpath variable based on the namespace uri and local name of the variable-reference expression.

Method Detail

getVariableValue

java.lang.Object getVariableValue(java.lang.String namespaceURI,
                                  java.lang.String prefix,
                                  java.lang.String localName)
                                  throws UnresolvableException

An implementation should return the value of an xpath variable based on the namespace uri and local name of the variable-reference expression.

It must not use the prefix parameter to select a variable, because a prefix could be bound to any namespace; the prefix parameter could be used in debugging output or other generated information. The prefix may otherwise be ignored.

Parameters:

namespaceURI - the namespace uri to which the prefix parameter is bound in the xpath expression. If the variable reference expression had no prefix, the namespace uri is null.

prefix - the prefix that was used in the variable reference expression.

localName - the local name of the variable-reference expression; if there is no prefix, then this is the whole name of the variable.

Returns:

the variable's value (which can be null)

Throws:

UnresolvableException - when the variable cannot be resolved.