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package org.w3c.dom.xpath;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
/**
* The XPathExpression interface represents a parsed and resolved
* XPath expression.
* See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification.
*/
public interface XPathExpression {
/**
* Evaluates this XPath expression and returns a result.
* @param contextNode The context is context node for the
* evaluation of this XPath expression.If the XPathEvaluator was
* obtained by casting the Document then this must be
* owned by the same document and must be a Document,
* Element, Attribute, Text,
* CDATASection, Comment,
* ProcessingInstruction, or XPathNamespace
* node.If the context node is a Text or a
* CDATASection, then the context is interpreted as the
* whole logical text node as seen by XPath, unless the node is empty
* in which case it may not serve as the XPath context.
* @param type If a specific type is specified, then the
* result will be coerced to return the specified type relying on
* XPath conversions and fail if the desired coercion is not possible.
* This must be one of the type codes of XPathResult.
* @param result The result specifies a specific result
* object which may be reused and returned by this method. If this is
* specified as nullor the implementation does not reuse
* the specified result, a new result object will be constructed and
* returned.For XPath 1.0 results, this object will be of type
* XPathResult.
* @return The result of the evaluation of the XPath expression.For XPath
* 1.0 results, this object will be of type XPathResult.
* @exception XPathException
* TYPE_ERR: Raised if the result cannot be converted to return the
* specified type.
* @exception DOMException
* WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: The Node is from a document that is not supported
* by the XPathEvaluator that created this XPathExpression
* .
*
NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: The Node is not a type permitted as an XPath
* context node or the request type is not permitted by this
* XPathExpression.
*/
public Object evaluate(Node contextNode,
short type,
Object result)
throws XPathException, DOMException;
}