Package org.geotools.data.complex.util
Class XPathUtil
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- XPathUtil
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- Direct Known Subclasses:
XPath
public class XPathUtil extends Object
Utility class to evaluate XPath expressions against an Attribute instance, which may be any Attribute, whether it is simple, complex, a feature, etc.At the difference of the Filter subsystem, which works against Attribute contents (for example to evaluate a comparison filter), the XPath subsystem, for which this class is the single entry point, works against Attribute instances. That is, the result of an XPath expression, if a single value, is an Attribtue, not the attribute content, or a List of Attributes, for instance.
- Author:
- Gabriel Roldan (Axios Engineering), Rini Angreani (CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering)
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Nested Class Summary
Nested Classes Modifier and Type Class Description static class
XPathUtil.Step
static class
XPathUtil.StepList
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Constructor Summary
Constructors Constructor Description XPathUtil()
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Method Summary
All Methods Static Methods Concrete Methods Modifier and Type Method Description static boolean
equals(Name targetNodeName, XPathUtil.StepList targetXPath)
static XPathUtil.StepList
rootElementSteps(AttributeDescriptor rootElement, NamespaceSupport namespaces)
Returns the list of steps in an x-path expression that represents the root element.static XPathUtil.StepList
steps(AttributeDescriptor root, String xpathExpression, NamespaceSupport namespaces)
Returns the list of stepts inxpathExpression
by cleaning it up removing unnecessary elements.
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Method Detail
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rootElementSteps
public static XPathUtil.StepList rootElementSteps(AttributeDescriptor rootElement, NamespaceSupport namespaces) throws IllegalArgumentException
Returns the list of steps in an x-path expression that represents the root element.- Parameters:
rootElement
- non null descriptor of the root attribute, generally the Feature descriptor.namespaces
- namespace support for generating qnames from namespaces.- Returns:
- A list of unique of steps in an xpath expression.
- Throws:
IllegalArgumentException
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is undefined.
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steps
public static XPathUtil.StepList steps(AttributeDescriptor root, String xpathExpression, NamespaceSupport namespaces) throws IllegalArgumentException
Returns the list of stepts inxpathExpression
by cleaning it up removing unnecessary elements.- Parameters:
root
- non null descriptor of the root attribute, generally the Feature descriptor. Used to ignore the first step in xpathExpression if the expression's first step is named as rootName.- Throws:
IllegalArgumentException
- ifxpathExpression
has no steps or it isn't a valid XPath expression againsttype
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equals
public static boolean equals(Name targetNodeName, XPathUtil.StepList targetXPath)
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