com.saxonica.codegen
Class FirstItemExpressionCompiler

java.lang.Object
  com.saxonica.codegen.ExpressionCompiler
      com.saxonica.codegen.SingletonExpressionCompiler
          com.saxonica.codegen.FirstItemExpressionCompiler

public class FirstItemExpressionCompiler
extends SingletonExpressionCompiler

Compiler for a FirstItemExpression.

Constructor Summary

FirstItemExpressionCompiler()

Method Summary

String

compileToItem(CompilerService compiler, Expression expr) Generate Java code to evaluate the expression as an Item

Methods inherited from class com.saxonica.codegen.SingletonExpressionCompiler

compilePush, compileToCharSequence, compileToEffectiveBooleanValue, compileToIterator

Methods inherited from class com.saxonica.codegen.ExpressionCompiler

compileAsLoop, compileToValueRepresentation, getConfiguration, makeExpressionCompiler, setConfiguration

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FirstItemExpressionCompiler

public FirstItemExpressionCompiler()

Method Detail

compileToItem

public String compileToItem(CompilerService compiler,
                            Expression expr)

Description copied from class: ExpressionCompiler

Generate Java code to evaluate the expression as an Item

Specified by:

compileToItem in class ExpressionCompiler

Parameters:

compiler - the compiler service

expr - the expression to be compiled

Returns:

a simple Java expression (usually the name of a variable that has been declared) which will be of class Item, and which will hold the value of the expression at run-time (or hold null, representing an empty sequence).