com.saxonica.validate
Interface Watch

All Known Implementing Classes:

FieldWatch, SelectorWatch, SubtreeCopyWatch

public interface Watch

A Watch represents a class that is interested in looking at nodes passing down a push pipeline, typically for the purpose of evaluating uniqueness and key constraints. The nodes that the Watch is interested in are identified by a Selection object.

Method Summary

Receiver	activate() Signal that an element has been found that matches the selection that this Watch is looking for.
void	close() The close() method is called immediately before the Watch is destroyed, that is, when the element whose declaration scopes the constraint implemented by this Watch goes out of scope.
void	deactivate() Signal that the endElement event has occurred for the element whose startElement event caused the Watch to be activated.
int	getOriginDepth() Get the depth within the XML hierarchy of the element whose element declaration contains the unique/key/keyref constraint that this Watch implements
Selection	getSelection() Get the selection (that is, the restricted XPath expression) that defines the nodes that this Watch is looking for
void	setNamespaceResolver(NamespaceResolver resolver) Set a NamespaceResolver for use by the Watch
void	setOriginDepth(int depth) Set the depth within the XML hierarchy of the element whose element declaration contains the unique/key/keyref constraint that this Watch implements
void	setPipelineConfiguration(PipelineConfiguration config) Set the Configuration in use

Method Detail

getSelection

public Selection getSelection()

Get the selection (that is, the restricted XPath expression) that defines the nodes that this Watch is looking for

Returns:

the selection

setPipelineConfiguration

public void setPipelineConfiguration(PipelineConfiguration config)

Set the Configuration in use

Parameters:

config - the Configuration in use

setNamespaceResolver

public void setNamespaceResolver(NamespaceResolver resolver)

Set a NamespaceResolver for use by the Watch

setOriginDepth

public void setOriginDepth(int depth)

Set the depth within the XML hierarchy of the element whose element declaration contains the unique/key/keyref constraint that this Watch implements

Parameters:

depth - The depth at which the watch is scoped

getOriginDepth

public int getOriginDepth()

Get the depth within the XML hierarchy of the element whose element declaration contains the unique/key/keyref constraint that this Watch implements

Returns:

The depth at which the watch is scoped

activate

public Receiver activate()
                  throws ValidationException

Signal that an element has been found that matches the selection that this Watch is looking for. This method is called by the ConstraintChecker while processing the startElement event that matches the selection. For this purpose, any attributes selected by the last step in the selection are ignored

Returns:

a Receiver to be notified of all events starting with the startElement event for the matched element, and ending with the endElement event for that element.

Throws:

ValidationException - May be raised if the constraint implemented by this Watch is violated

deactivate

public void deactivate()
                throws XPathException

Signal that the endElement event has occurred for the element whose startElement event caused the Watch to be activated.

Throws:

ValidationException - May be raised if the constraint implemented by this Watch is violated

XPathException

close

public void close()
           throws XPathException

The close() method is called immediately before the Watch is destroyed, that is, when the element whose declaration scopes the constraint implemented by this Watch goes out of scope.

Throws:

XPathException