Package com.saxonica.ee.trans

Class Precondition

java.lang.Object

com.saxonica.ee.trans.Precondition

Direct Known Subclasses:

Precondition.BooleanPrecondition, Precondition.NumericComparisonPrecondition, Precondition.StringHashPrecondition

public abstract class Precondition
extends java.lang.Object

A Precondition is a boolean condition that must be true if a pattern is to match (but in general is not a sufficient condition for the pattern to match). Preconditions may be defined in terms of "characteristics": that is, properties of the item being matched. When an item is matched against a RuleChain to find the best matching rule, subexpressions used by more than one rule may be evaluated as characteristics, so they are not evaluated repeatedly. Preconditions are shared by multiple rules. Evaluating a precondition for one rule may ensure that the patterns for other rules do not need to be evaluated.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
static class	Precondition.BooleanPrecondition	A BooleanPrecondition can in principle test any boolean characteristic of a pattern.
static class	Precondition.NumericComparisonPrecondition	A numeric comparison precondition is used for patterns containing a predicate that compares some expression E with a numeric constant.
static class	Precondition.StringHashPrecondition	A StringHashPrecondition compares a characteristic in the form of a set of integer hash codes against a constant hash code; the precondition is satisfied if the constant hash code is present in the set.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Precondition()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	isSatisfied(PreconditionMatcher matcher)	Ask whether the precondition is satisfied, making use of caching
void	setSlotNumber(int slotNumber)	Allocate a slot number indicating where in the data maintained by the PreconditionMatcher the value of this precondition should be held
protected abstract boolean	testPrecondition(PreconditionMatcher matcher)	Compute the value of the precondition for a given item.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Precondition

public Precondition()

Method Detail

setSlotNumber

public void setSlotNumber(int slotNumber)

Allocate a slot number indicating where in the data maintained by the PreconditionMatcher the value of this precondition should be held

Parameters:

slotNumber - the slot number to be used for the value of this precondition

isSatisfied

public final boolean isSatisfied(PreconditionMatcher matcher)
                          throws XPathException

Ask whether the precondition is satisfied, making use of caching

Parameters:

matcher - The PreconditionMatcher holds the values of conditions that have already been matched, which is therefore used as a cache of values that do not need to be evaluated repeatedly. In addition it holds the dynamic evaluation context; the context item is the item being matched.

Returns:

true if the precondition is satisfied

Throws:

XPathException - if evaluation of the precondition fails with a dynamic error

testPrecondition

protected abstract boolean testPrecondition(PreconditionMatcher matcher)
                                     throws XPathException

Compute the value of the precondition for a given item. The item in question is the context item in the dynamic context held in the PreconditionMatcher

Parameters:

matcher - the PreconditionMatcher: holds the dynamic context for evaluation.

Returns:

true if the precondition is satisfied

Throws:

XPathException - if evaluation of the precondition fails with a dynamic error