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Xerces2 is the next generation of high performance, fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version of Xerces introduces the Xerces Native Interface (XNI), a complete framework for building parser components and configurations that is extremely modular and easy to program. The Apache Xerces2 parser is the reference implementation of XNI but other parser components, configurations, and parsers can be written using the Xerces Native Interface. For complete design and implementation documents, refer to the XNI Manual. Xerces2 is a fully conforming XML Schema 1.0 processor. A partial experimental implementation of the XML Schema 1.1 Structures and Datatypes Working Drafts (December 2009) and an experimental implementation of the XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators (SCD) Candidate Recommendation (January 2010) are provided for evaluation. For more information, refer to the XML Schema page. Xerces2 also provides a complete implementation of the Document Object Model Level 3 Core and Load/Save W3C Recommendations and provides a complete implementation of the XML Inclusions (XInclude) W3C Recommendation. It also provides support for OASIS XML Catalogs v1.1. Xerces2 is able to parse documents written according to the XML 1.1 Recommendation, except that it does not yet provide an option to enable normalization checking as described in section 2.13 of this specification. It also handles namespaces according to the XML Namespaces 1.1 Recommendation, and will correctly serialize XML 1.1 documents if the DOM level 3 load/save APIs are in use.

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// $Id: XPathFunction.java 446598 2006-09-15 12:55:40Z jeremias $

package javax.xml.xpath;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * XPathFunction provides access to XPath functions.
 *
 * Functions are identified by QName and arity in XPath.
 *
 * @author  Norman Walsh
 * @author  Jeff Suttor
 * @version $Revision: 446598 $, $Date: 2006-09-15 08:55:40 -0400 (Fri, 15 Sep 2006) $
 * @since 1.5
 */
public interface XPathFunction {
  /**
   * Evaluate the function with the specified arguments.
   *
   * To the greatest extent possible, side-effects should be avoided in the
   * definition of extension functions. The implementation evaluating an
   * XPath expression is under no obligation to call extension functions in
   * any particular order or any particular number of times.
   * 
   * @param args The arguments, null is a valid value.
   * 
   * @return The result of evaluating the XPath function as an Object.
   * 
   * @throws XPathFunctionException If args cannot be evaluated with this XPath function.
   */
  public Object evaluate(List args)
    throws XPathFunctionException;
}