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// Copyright (c) 2013 Saxonica Limited.
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package net.sf.saxon.sxpath;

import net.sf.saxon.expr.StaticContext;
import net.sf.saxon.expr.instruct.SlotManager;
import net.sf.saxon.om.NamespaceResolver;
import net.sf.saxon.value.QNameValue;

/**
 * This interface defines methods that must be provided when Saxon's free-standing XPath API is used.
 * The default implementation of this interface is {@link net.sf.saxon.sxpath.IndependentContext}, and
 * that implementation should be adequate for most purposes; but for extra customization, a user-written
 * implementation of this interface may be used instead.
 */
public interface XPathStaticContext extends StaticContext {

    /**
     * Set the default namespace for elements and types
     * @param uri The namespace to be used to qualify unprefixed element names and type names appearing
     * in the XPath expression.
     */

    public void setDefaultElementNamespace(String uri);

    /**
     * Set an external namespace resolver. If this is set, then all resolution of namespace
     * prefixes is delegated to the external namespace resolver, and namespaces declared
     * individually on this IndependentContext object are ignored.
     * @param resolver the external namespace resolver
     */

    public void setNamespaceResolver(NamespaceResolver resolver);

    /**
     * Declare a variable. A variable must be declared before an expression referring
     * to it is compiled. The initial value of the variable will be the empty sequence.
     * This method backs up the {@link XPathEvaluator#declareVariable} method.
     * @param qname The name of the variable
     * @return a Variable object representing information about the variable that has been
     * declared.
    */

    public XPathVariable declareVariable(QNameValue qname);

    /**
     * Declare a variable. A variable must be declared before an expression referring
     * to it is compiled. The initial value of the variable will be the empty sequence.
     * This method backs up the {@link XPathEvaluator#declareVariable} method.
     * @param namespaceURI The namespace URI of the name of the variable. Supply "" to represent
     * names in no namespace (null is also accepted)
     * @param localName The local part of the name of the variable (an NCName)
     * @return an XPathVariable object representing information about the variable that has been
     * declared.
    */

    public XPathVariable declareVariable(String namespaceURI, String localName);

    /**
     * Get a Stack Frame Map containing definitions of all the declared variables. This will return a newly
     * created object that the caller is free to modify by adding additional variables, without affecting
     * the static context itself.
     * @return a SlotManager object holding details of the allocation of variables on the stack frame.
     */

    public SlotManager getStackFrameMap();


}