01: /*
02: * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
03: *
04: * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
05: * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
06: * You may obtain a copy of the License at
07: *
08: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
09: *
10: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14: * limitations under the License.
15: */
16: /*
17: * $Id: XPathFactory.java,v 1.9 2004/02/17 04:30:02 minchau Exp $
18: */
19: package org.apache.xpath;
20:
21: import javax.xml.transform.SourceLocator;
22:
23: import org.apache.xml.utils.PrefixResolver;
24:
25: /**
26: * Factory class for creating an XPath. Implementors of XPath derivatives
27: * will need to make a derived class of this.
28: * @xsl.usage advanced
29: */
30: public interface XPathFactory {
31:
32: /**
33: * Create an XPath.
34: *
35: * @param exprString The XPath expression string.
36: * @param locator The location of the expression string, mainly for diagnostic
37: * purposes.
38: * @param prefixResolver This will be called in order to resolve prefixes
39: * to namespace URIs.
40: * @param type One of {@link org.apache.xpath.XPath#SELECT} or
41: * {@link org.apache.xpath.XPath#MATCH}.
42: *
43: * @return an XPath ready for execution.
44: */
45: XPath create(String exprString, SourceLocator locator,
46: PrefixResolver prefixResolver, int type);
47: }
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