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Saxon a complete and conformant implementation of the XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0, and XPath 2.0 Recommendations published on 23 January 2007 by W3C

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package net.sf.saxon.om;

import net.sf.saxon.trans.XPathException;

/**
 * This interface is an extension to the SequenceIterator interface; it represents
 * a SequenceIterator that is based on an in-memory representation of a sequence,
 * and that is therefore capable of returned a SequenceValue containing all the items
 * in the sequence.
 */

public interface GroundedIterator extends SequenceIterator {

    /**
     * Return a GroundedValue containing all the items in the sequence returned by this
     * SequenceIterator. This should be an "in-memory" value, not a Closure.
     * @return the corresponding Value
     */

    public GroundedValue materialize() throws XPathException;
}


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