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Provides a basic XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 processor (W3C Recommendations, January 2007). Command line interfaces and implementations of several Java APIs (DOM, XPath, s9api) are also included.

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package net.sf.saxon.expr;

/**
 * This interface is implemented by expressions that returns a boolean value, and returns an expression
 * whose result is the negated boolean value
 */
public interface Negatable {

    /**
     * Check whether this specific instance of the expression is negatable
     * @return true if it is
     */

    public boolean isNegatable(ExpressionVisitor visitor);

    /**
     * Create an expression that returns the negation of this expression
     * @return the negated expression
     * @throws IllegalOperationException if isNegatable() returns false
     */

    public Expression negate();
}

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