1 /* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 3 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 4 * distributed with this work for additional information 5 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 6 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 7 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 8 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 * 10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 * 12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 13 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 14 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 15 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 16 * limitations under the License. 17 */ 18 /* 19 * $Id: XPathFactory.java 468655 2006-10-28 07:12:06Z minchau $ 20 */ 21 package org.apache.xpath; 22 23 import javax.xml.transform.SourceLocator; 24 25 import org.apache.xml.utils.PrefixResolver; 26 27 /** 28 * Factory class for creating an XPath. Implementors of XPath derivatives 29 * will need to make a derived class of this. 30 * @xsl.usage advanced 31 */ 32 public interface XPathFactory 33 { 34 35 /** 36 * Create an XPath. 37 * 38 * @param exprString The XPath expression string. 39 * @param locator The location of the expression string, mainly for diagnostic 40 * purposes. 41 * @param prefixResolver This will be called in order to resolve prefixes 42 * to namespace URIs. 43 * @param type One of {@link org.apache.xpath.XPath#SELECT} or 44 * {@link org.apache.xpath.XPath#MATCH}. 45 * 46 * @return an XPath ready for execution. 47 */ 48 XPath create(String exprString, SourceLocator locator, 49 PrefixResolver prefixResolver, int type); 50 } 51
