net.sf.saxon.evpull
Class BracketedElementIterator

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.saxon.evpull.BracketedElementIterator

All Implemented Interfaces:

EventIterator, PullEvent

public class BracketedElementIterator
extends Object
implements EventIterator

The class is an EventIterator that handles the events arising from an element constructor: that is, the start/end event pair for the element node, bracketing a sequence of events for the content of the element.

This class does not normalize the content (for example by merging adjacent text nodes). That is the job of the ComplexContentProcessor.

The event stream consumed by a BracketedElementIterator may contain freestanding attribute and namespace nodes. The event stream delivered by a BracketedElementIterator, however, packages all attributes and namespaces as part of the startElement event.

Constructor Summary

BracketedElementIterator(StartElementEvent start, EventIterator content, EndElementEvent end)
Constructor

Method Summary

boolean	isFlatSequence() Determine whether the EventIterator returns a flat sequence of events, or whether it can return nested event iterators
PullEvent	next() Get the next event in the sequence

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BracketedElementIterator

public BracketedElementIterator(StartElementEvent start,
                                EventIterator content,
                                EndElementEvent end)

Constructor

Parameters:

start - the StartElementEvent object

content - iterator that delivers the content of the element

end - the EndElementEvent object

Method Detail

next

public PullEvent next()
               throws XPathException

Get the next event in the sequence

Specified by:

next in interface EventIterator

Returns:

the next event, or null when the sequence is exhausted

Throws:

XPathException - if a dynamic evaluation error occurs

isFlatSequence

public boolean isFlatSequence()

Determine whether the EventIterator returns a flat sequence of events, or whether it can return nested event iterators

Specified by:

isFlatSequence in interface EventIterator

Returns:

true if the next() method is guaranteed never to return an EventIterator