org.custommonkey.xmlunit

Class SimpleXpathEngine

java.lang.Object

org.custommonkey.xmlunit.SimpleXpathEngine

All Implemented Interfaces:

XMLConstants, XpathEngine, XSLTConstants

public class SimpleXpathEngine
extends java.lang.Object
implements XpathEngine, XSLTConstants

Simple class for accessing the Nodes matched by an Xpath expression, or evaluating the String value of an Xpath expression. Uses a copy-of or value-of XSL template (as appropriate) to execute the Xpath. This is not an efficient method for accessing XPaths but it is portable across underlying transform implementations. (Yes I know Jaxen is too, but this approach seemed to be the simplest thing that could possibly work...)
Examples and more at xmlunit.sourceforge.net

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.custommonkey.xmlunit.XSLTConstants

JAVA5_XSLTC_FACTORY_NAME, XSLT_END, XSLT_IDENTITY_TEMPLATE, XSLT_START, XSLT_START_NO_VERSION, XSLT_STRIP_COMMENTS_TEMPLATE, XSLT_STRIP_WHITESPACE, XSLT_XML_OUTPUT_NOINDENT

Fields inherited from interface org.custommonkey.xmlunit.XMLConstants

CLOSE_NODE, END_CDATA, END_COMMENT, END_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, NULL_NS_URI, OPEN_END_NODE, OPEN_START_NODE, START_CDATA, START_COMMENT, START_DOCTYPE, START_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, W3C_XML_SCHEMA_INSTANCE_NO_NAMESPACE_SCHEMA_LOCATION_ATTR, W3C_XML_SCHEMA_INSTANCE_NS_URI, W3C_XML_SCHEMA_INSTANCE_SCHEMA_LOCATION_ATTR, W3C_XML_SCHEMA_INSTANCE_TYPE_ATTR, W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI, XML_DECLARATION, XMLNS_ATTRIBUTE_URI, XMLNS_PREFIX, XPATH_ATTRIBUTE_IDENTIFIER, XPATH_CHARACTER_NODE_IDENTIFIER, XPATH_COMMENT_IDENTIFIER, XPATH_NODE_INDEX_END, XPATH_NODE_INDEX_START, XPATH_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_IDENTIFIER, XPATH_SEPARATOR

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SimpleXpathEngine()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	evaluate(java.lang.String select, org.w3c.dom.Document document) Evaluate the result of executing the specified xpath syntax select expression on the specified document
org.w3c.dom.NodeList	getMatchingNodes(java.lang.String select, org.w3c.dom.Document document) Execute the specified xpath syntax select expression on the specified document and return the list of nodes (could have length zero) that match
protected org.w3c.dom.Document	getXPathResultAsDocument(java.lang.String select, org.w3c.dom.Document document) Execute the copy-of transform and return the resulting Document.
protected org.w3c.dom.Node	getXPathResultNode(java.lang.String select, org.w3c.dom.Document document) Testable method to execute the copy-of transform and return the root node of the resulting Document.
void	setNamespaceContext(NamespaceContext ctx) Establish a namespace context.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SimpleXpathEngine

public SimpleXpathEngine()

Method Detail

getXPathResultNode

protected org.w3c.dom.Node getXPathResultNode(java.lang.String select,
                                  org.w3c.dom.Document document)
                                       throws ConfigurationException,
                                              javax.xml.transform.TransformerException,
                                              XpathException

Testable method to execute the copy-of transform and return the root node of the resulting Document.

Parameters:

select -

document -

Returns:

the root node of the Document created by the copy-of transform.

Throws:

ConfigurationException

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

XpathException

getXPathResultAsDocument

protected org.w3c.dom.Document getXPathResultAsDocument(java.lang.String select,
                                            org.w3c.dom.Document document)
                                                 throws ConfigurationException,
                                                        javax.xml.transform.TransformerException,
                                                        XpathException

Execute the copy-of transform and return the resulting Document. Used for XMLTestCase comparison

Parameters:

select -

document -

Returns:

the Document created by the copy-of transform.

Throws:

ConfigurationException

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

XpathException

getMatchingNodes

public org.w3c.dom.NodeList getMatchingNodes(java.lang.String select,
                                    org.w3c.dom.Document document)
                                      throws ConfigurationException,
                                             XpathException

Execute the specified xpath syntax select expression on the specified document and return the list of nodes (could have length zero) that match

Specified by:

getMatchingNodes in interface XpathEngine

Parameters:

select -

document -

Returns:

list of matching nodes

Throws:

ConfigurationException

XpathException

evaluate

public java.lang.String evaluate(java.lang.String select,
                        org.w3c.dom.Document document)
                          throws ConfigurationException,
                                 XpathException

Evaluate the result of executing the specified xpath syntax select expression on the specified document

Specified by:

evaluate in interface XpathEngine

Parameters:

select -

document -

Returns:

evaluated result

Throws:

ConfigurationException

XpathException

setNamespaceContext

public void setNamespaceContext(NamespaceContext ctx)

Description copied from interface: XpathEngine

Establish a namespace context.

Specified by:

setNamespaceContext in interface XpathEngine