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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.om;

import net.sf.saxon.pattern.NodeTest;
import net.sf.saxon.value.Value;
import net.sf.saxon.trans.XPathException;


/**
 * A SequenceIterator is used to iterate over a sequence. An AxisIterator
 * is a SequenceIterator that throws no exceptions, and that always returns
 * nodes. The nodes should all be in the same document (though there are
 * some cases, such as PrependIterator, where this is the responsibility of the
 * user of the class and is not enforced.)
 */

public interface AxisIterator extends UnfailingIterator {

    /**
     * Move to the next node, without returning it. Returns true if there is
     * a next node, false if the end of the sequence has been reached. After
     * calling this method, the current node may be retrieved using the
     * current() function.
     */

    public boolean moveNext();

    /**
     * Return an iterator over an axis, starting at the current node.
     * @param axis the axis to iterate over, using a constant such as
     * {@link net.sf.saxon.om.Axis#CHILD}
     * @param test a predicate to apply to the nodes before returning them.
     * @throws NullPointerException if there is no current node
     */

    public AxisIterator iterateAxis(byte axis, NodeTest test);

    /**
     * Return the atomized value of the current node.
     * @return the atomized value.
     * @throws NullPointerException if there is no current node
     */

    public Value atomize() throws XPathException;

    /**
     * Return the string value of the current node.
     * @return the string value, as an instance of CharSequence.
     * @throws NullPointerException if there is no current node
     */

    public CharSequence getStringValue();


}



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