net.sf.saxon.evpull
Class NamespaceMaintainer

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

EventIterator, PullEvent, NamespaceResolver

public class NamespaceMaintainer
extends Object
implements EventIterator, NamespaceResolver

NamespaceMaintainer is an EventIterator responsible for maintaining namespace context in an event stream. It allows the current namespace context to be determined at any time while processing the stream of events.

Note that this class merely provides the service of keeping track of which namespaces are currently in scope. It does not attempt to remove duplicate namespace declarations, and it does not perform namespace fixup.

Constructor Summary

NamespaceMaintainer(EventIterator base)
Create a namespace context for a pull-events pipeline

Method Summary

String	getURIForPrefix(String prefix, boolean useDefault) Get the namespace URI corresponding to a given prefix.
boolean	isFlatSequence() Determine whether the EventIterator returns a flat sequence of events, or whether it can return nested event iterators
Iterator	iteratePrefixes() Get an iterator over all the prefixes declared in this namespace context.
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

NamespaceMaintainer

public NamespaceMaintainer(EventIterator base)

Create a namespace context for a pull-events pipeline

Parameters:

base - the previous stage in the pipeline, from which events are read

Method Detail

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

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. Note that since an EventIterator is itself a PullEvent, this method may return a nested iterator.

Throws:

XPathException - if a dynamic evaluation error occurs

getURIForPrefix

public String getURIForPrefix(String prefix,
                              boolean useDefault)

Get the namespace URI corresponding to a given prefix. Return null if the prefix is not in scope.

Specified by:

getURIForPrefix in interface NamespaceResolver

Parameters:

prefix - the namespace prefix

useDefault - true if the default namespace is to be used when the prefix is ""

Returns:

the uri for the namespace, or null if the prefix is not in scope

iteratePrefixes

public Iterator iteratePrefixes()

Get an iterator over all the prefixes declared in this namespace context. This will include the default namespace (prefix="") and the XML namespace where appropriate

Specified by:

iteratePrefixes in interface NamespaceResolver

Returns:

an iterator over all the prefixes for which a namespace binding exists, including the zero-length string to represent the null/absent prefix if it is bound